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27.08.2018

Frac Centre-Val de Loire honours the 1960's-1980's spanish experimental scene

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Madrid, Octobre 68
The Spanish experimental scene 
 
12 October 2018 - 24 February 2019 
Private viewing on 11 October 2018 


Main Image : FRANCISCO JAVIER SEGUI DE LA RIVA & ANA BUENAVENTURA, Orden biológico, 1971
 
Image above : JOSÉ MARÍA YTURRALDE, Estructura volante II, 1976 
Collection IVAM
In the autumn of 2018, the Frac Centre-Val de Loire will inaugrate the first exhibition in France dedicated to the Spanish 

experimental scene of the 1960’s and 1980’s. The retrospective portrays the incredible adventure of the University of Madrid’s Computing Center, which brought together artists, architects, engineers, scientists and intellectuals to explore the possibilities offered by automatic computer generated calculation. These pioneers formed a community whose - collective - experience working at the crossroads of art and computing asserted a different form of artistic production between disciplines.

 
This first exhibition in France, at Frac Centre-Val de Loire introduces the Spanish experimental scene of the 1960s and 1980s into a European and American landscape of radicalism, through the prospective of a utopian architecture - Radical Architecture from Italy, Visionary Austrian Architecture, English Pop Architecture or the Prospective Vision in France.
 

Since the beginning of the 1990's; Frac (regional fund of contemporary art) of the region of Central-Val de Loire, asserts itself as an important space dedicated to building a relationship between art and architecture. With 400 artists and architects represented, today Frac's collection, on an international scale, is one of the three most important collections, dedicated to architecture (alongside those of the Centre Pompidou and the MoMa).

 


Main Image : FRANCISCO JAVIER SEGUI DE LA RIVA & ANA BUENAVENTURA, Orden biológico, 1971
 
Image above : JOSÉ MARÍA YTURRALDE, Estructura volante II, 1976 
Collection IVAM

About

Madrid, Octobre 68
The Spanish experimental scene 
 
12 October 2018 - 24 February 2019 
Private viewing on 11 October 2018