Design and ecology, contemporary art and video games

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This space of the Culture, Tourism and Sports Area of the Madrid City Council also organizes the fourth edition of TELARAÑA artistic production and creation workshops

Design and ecology, contemporary art and video games star in CentroCentro's new exhibition programming

- The Wet Dreams exhibition, curated by Marina Otero, opens the activities of the third Madrid Design and Architecture Biennial, MAYRIT 2024, from March 9 on the 3rd floor

- Widen the door. Very new gallery in Madrid, curated by Joaquín García Martín, brings to the public the work of a selection of galleries opened in recent years in the city, from March 9 on the 5th floor

- The visible city / The city at play proposes a look at the video game from its potential to transform the city, curated by Luca Carrubba and Eurídice Cabañes (ArsGames), from April 12 on the 4th floor

CentroCentro, a space in the Culture, Tourism and Sports Area, inaugurates three new exhibition projects in the months of March and April. On March 9, the Wet Dreams exhibition will open to the public on the 3rd floor, kicking off the programming of the third Madrid Design and Architecture Biennial, MAYRIT 2024. Curated by architect and researcher Marina Otero Verzier, the exhibition addresses water beyond its understanding as a resource and explores its role as a catalyst in ecosocial relationships. It brings together the works of around thirty international creators and groups – design and research projects, audiovisual records of popular spaces and practices, archival materials, ceramic pieces, photography… – that highlight the importance of water and fluid materials in creation. of bonds of solidarity, incarnation and desire.

MAYRIT is a platform that highlights young and experimental creation at a global level in contemporary design and architecture. Directed by Miguel Leiro, it has been taking place in Madrid since 2020, focusing on water-related issues to underline the need to preserve cultural and natural resources. (Wet dreams, from March 9 to August 25, floor 3, with free admission).

New gallery
The same day, March 9, CentroCentro inaugurates Ensanchar la puerta. Brand new gallery in Madrid, a project that advances the center's objective of bringing the city's contemporary creation to an increasingly diverse audience, initiated with projects such as Panorama Madrid 01 and 02 (2021 and 2022) and Everything Else in 2023 Curated by Joaquín García Martín, Ensanchar la puerta gives voice to a selection of the new gallery owners who have opened the doors of their spaces in recent years in the city. The galleries Arniches 26, Belmonte, El Chico, La Oficina, Picnic and Pradiauto have been invited to present their projects and the work of their artists, in a collective exhibition that will be completed with a public program of round tables.

In the 1960s, gallery owner Leo Castelli, seeing that the artists he worked with were creating increasingly larger canvases, had the door of his gallery widened. This gesture of collaboration, of understanding, conveys both the will of the galleries and their involvement with the artists and that of this exhibition, which opens its doors to give visibility to the new entrepreneurs of the art market in Madrid. (Widen the door. Brand new gallery in Madrid, from March 9 to June 2, floor 5, with free entry).

City and video games
From April 12, you can visit The Visible City / The City at Play,
an exhibition curated by Luca Carrubba and Eurídice Cabañes (ArsGames) that proposes a look at the video game from its potential to transform the city and shows how the urban is represented and constructed through this medium.

Through a set of national and international projects that use different compositional and aesthetic techniques, from photography to sculpture through installation and recreational interventions, the exhibition proposes a critical perspective that expands the vision of the video game beyond a mere object. of consumption, highlighting the transformative function of the ludus, the game, as a space for creation and collective reflection around the city.

The project will have a public program of four free workshops, two of them prior to the exhibition, the results of which will be exhibited in the exhibition: The objects that populate our city, by the artist Mónica Rikić, on March 2 and 3 and the Radical game design workshop, led by ArsGames, on March 16. Registration is now open through centrocentro.org. (The visible city / The city at stake, from April 11 to August 25, floor 4, with free admission).

Fourth edition of the TELARAÑA workshop cycle
In addition, CentroCentro's public program will feature a new edition of the cycle of artistic production and creation workshops TELARAÑA, a proposal that, since its inception in 2021, has attracted more than 600 participants.

From February to June, the new program curated by María Revuelta presents a total of ten free workshops guided by members and guest collectives who come from different fields: Le Parody (folklore and electronics), Tuni Panea (experimental lutherie), Mabi Revuelta (arts visuals), Elena Duque (audiovisual creation), Ogami Press (photogravure techniques), Juan de Andrés Arias (3D scanner), María Jerez (performance / film), Tamara Arroyo (installation), Reparto Estudio (fashion and characters) and Mónica Boromello (scenographic installations). All information and registration at centrocentro.org.