Substance-SUBSTANCES

A critical reading that explores the interconnection between the sacred and the profane in contemporary art.

By Collegium

Curator: Patrick Charpenel

View of the exposicion - Sustancia – SUSTANCIAS (2022-02-22) by Peter Fischli, Leonor Antunes, and Jordan NassarCollegium

Is there a relationship between the sacred and the profane?

'Substance - SUBSTANCES' is an exhibition conceived for the historic San Martín church, in the municipality of Arévalo.

Patrick Charpenel, curator

 Based on a reflection on traditional symbolic logic and its diverse cultural consequences, the exhibition addresses the relationship between "entities" of a composite nature, complexly connecting apparently dissimilar elements.

Exhibition view 'Substance – SUBSTANCES' (2022-02-22) by Kasper Bosmans, Nina Chanel Abney, Tavares Strachan, Peter Fischli, and Jordan NassarCollegium

This project presented Francisco de Goya's 'Caprices' series with the work of twenty-five contemporary artists.

View of the exposicion - Sustancia – SUSTANCIAS (2022-02-22) by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes​ and Leonor AntunesCollegium

If an art exhibition seeks to communicate emotions and ideas of a cultural nature, it must always do so in recognition of the geographical context from which it is projected.

View of the exposicion - Sustancia – SUSTANCIAS (2022-02-22) by Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes​, Leonor Antunes, and Mathias GoeritzCollegium

This project presented Francisco de Goya's 'Caprices' series with the work of twenty-five contemporary artists.

View of the exposicion - Sustancia – SUSTANCIAS (2022-02-22) by Maurizio CattelanCollegium

Maurizio Cattelan, Turisti, 1997

Together, the birds reinforce the importance of forming a community, allowing them to claim space through the silent power of their presence.

View of the exposicion - Sustancia – SUSTANCIAS (2022-02-22) by Berlinde de BruyckereCollegium

Berlinde de Bruyckere, Walburga 16, November 18, 2019

By creating a dialogue between form and texture and removing the main characteristics of an element that integrates a collective memory, Berlinde de Bruyckere promotes a break with the notion of intimacy traditionally linked to this materiality.

View of the exposicion - Sustancia – SUSTANCIAS (2022-10-02) by Vicente de MelloCollegium

Transubstanciation

This exhibition addresses the theme of the Baroque as a philosophy and as a way of understanding the world, as well as the concept of "substance" and "transubstantiation" that articulates the entire exhibition.

View of the exposicion - Sustancia – SUSTANCIAS (2022-02-22) by David HammonsCollegium

David Hammons, Untitled (B-ball Drawing), 2004

Hammons creates a composition incorporating the choreography of basketball into his artistic process. Through abstraction, he offers us a work that strains the regimes of visibility, making it difficult to recognize the visible and to understand the intelligible.

View of the exposicion - Sustancia – SUSTANCIAS (2022-02-22) by Peter Fischli and Douglas GordonCollegium

Douglas Gordon, INSTRUCTION (NUMBER 7), 1994

Gordon takes up key points from his research and elaborates a proposal open to numerous reading keys, subtly intertwining form and content through verbal language, thus promoting a folding in of themes such as fluidity of perception and meaning.

View of the exposicion - Sustancia – SUSTANCIAS (2022-02-22) by Carol Bove, Hayv Kahraman, Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes​, and Engel LeonardoCollegium

The Caprices series and the selection of contemporary artists highlight, from a critical dimension, our human condition. And they approach, from a complex and destabilizing dimension, the knowledge of our world and our elusive spirit.

View of the exposicion - Sustancia – SUSTANCIAS (2022-02-22) by Engel Leonardo and Carol BoveCollegium

The perspective of the Baroque as an integrating philosophy is still somehow alive in the expressions of contemporary art and culture. The historical tension between the sacred and the secular is present in these works and in this place.

Credits: Story

texts by Patrick Charpenel and Andressa Rocha, presentation by Aldones Nino.

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