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The Discreet Charm of Technology Arts in Spain - Exhibition_
Date 28th July 2008
Tags event, exhibition, International, Spain
Luis Buñuel made more than a hint at his ambiguous, ironic intent when he entitled one of his most memorable films The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. Apart from making an acid social critique, the film also shows us the fragile boundaries that exist between different ways of acting on reality.
Exploring the ambiguous relationship between art and technology, this exhibition suggests the existence of another form and another content inherent in the practice of media art. Technology as an instrument gives way to technique as a procedure that artists use to create visual poetics, sensory and formal explorations, and conceptual developments. The discreet charm of media art lies precisely in this potential to blaze new trails.
The exhibition features 119 works, produced in Spain and of exceptional aesthetic and historic value. In it, the 13th century is linked to the 21st through a modular approach that focuses on five key themes representative of the artistic condition: the formal code; the visual code; the sensory and space-time code; the body and the identity; and the construction of reality. The accent on Spanish works is not merely a question of geography; rather, the exhibition tries to establish a dialogue between creative practices and artists that had never before been brought together in the same space at the same time.
It is precisely these conceptual links between the works, and not the materials or the chronological connections, which weave the discursive thread in each module. Moreover, by interweaving the five essential themes together, the exhibition generates new narrative itineraries that can stimulate viewers into creating their own personal interpretations.
The net art works including in the exhibition can be visited online at the link below.
At the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo until August 24, 2008.
Websites
http://www.meiac.es/vg/index.html
http://www.meiac.es/artesenespana/index.php
