WEIRD. SANDRETTO RE BAUDENGO COLLECTION

Description

Date

* June 9, 2022 – January 8, 2023 (Monumental Zone)

* June 9 – November 20, 2022 (North Cloister)

Curator: Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes

Coordinator: Roxana Gazdzinski Gutiérrez

Space: Monumental Zone and North Claustron

Monumental Zone

Giulia Cenci · Roberto Cuoghi · Berlinde De Bruyckere · Trisha Donnelly · Gusmão & Paiva · Mona Hatoum · Marine Hugonnier · Susan Philipsz · Andra Ursuta · Jakub Julian Ziólkowski

North Claustron

Paul Chan · Sebastián Díaz Morales · Hans-Peter Feldmann · Claire Fontaine · Liz Glynn · Iman Issa · William Kentridge · Louise Lawler · Zoe Leonard · Paul McCarthy · Jill Mulleady · Catherine Opie · Elizabeth Peyton · Charles Ray · Rachel Rose · Bojan Šarcevic · Rosemarie Trockel · Pae White · Cerith Wyn Evans · Lynette Yiadom-Boakye

This great exhibition is based on certain ideas-forces that are developed and chained along the route from works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection, one of the most important in Europe focused on the art of recent decades, in the two CAAC's main exhibition spaces: the Monumental Zone and the North Claustron. These ideas oscillate between a range of nuances that emerge from the different meanings that can be found in the following six words: strange, extraordinary, extravagant, eccentric, exotic, foreign. The sense of strangeness before the future of the world is combined on this unique occasion with the exceptionality that contemporary art provides as a framework for thought and experimentation. A feeling of estrangement, almost of disbelief, has therefore invaded our lives in recent years. The recent pandemic and the war in Ukraine have accentuated a future that seems to turn towards darkness.

Guy Debord already spoke of a present with no way out that goes around in the night. The monsters of reason linked to the human condition are awakening the serpent. Contemporary art, as an unusual language that plays with the unknown and with what is not familiar to us, can allow the viewer to find a way to materialize what we intuit but cannot fully grasp. In this way we discover other forms and other alien mentalities that speak to us about the times we inhabit.

This exhibition, which includes works by 30 international artists, mostly women, is part of a large institutional project organized by the Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art and the Patio Herreriano Museum, in whose exhibitions – different and simultaneous – a display without precedents of the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection, which thus commemorates its 30th anniversary.