Creative ways, exposure collective at the museum center Gaiás de Santiago de Compostela. The exhibition can be visited from 11 November to 9 April.
Creative paths, collective exhibition at the Gaiás museum center in Santiago
The exhibition Camiños creativeos explores the link between movement and art and explores how walking is decisive in the creative process.
The exhibition has an exceptional international dimension, presenting around one hundred works from the eighteenth century to the present day, from around thirty museums and collections in eight European countries. Thus, the Gaiás Center Museum exhibits works by great masters of painting, such as JMW Turner, John Constable, Gustave Courbet, Camille Corot, Théodore Rousseau, Carlos de Haes, Joaquín Sorolla, or the Italian Macchiaioli, becoming one of the few opportunities to see in Galicia , the work of two of the greatest exponents of the British landscape.
Creative Camiños also offers the public an exceptional selection of the most current contemporary creations, with names such as David Hockney – one of the most influential living painters in 20th century art – Jeppe Hein – Danish artist known for his sensorial and interactive installations -, Cristina Iglesias —one of the most internationally recognized current Spanish artists, winner of the Royal Academy of Architecture Award—, Jesús Soto —a great figure of Latin American art of the 20th century, with works in collections such as MoMA—, or Julian Opie — one of the most famous international artists of the last decades, who worked with bands like U2 or Blur.
Interaction and dialogue with the public is one of the pillars of this exhibition and there are many works that require the visitor’s participation, seeking surprise, reaction or human movement to complete the creation process itself. Some of these installations are distinguished by their size, innovative perspective or surprising execution, and you can find works that move on their own, others that must be walked or crossed by visitors to experience them in their entirety.
An app that creates melodies from the movement of the tides by British artist Victoria Evans, Irene Grau’s paintings, from the ashes pigments of the 2017 wave of fires, a board game about the wandering of pilgrims and tourists created by Juanma González , audiovisuals by creators such as Elia Torrecilla, Clara Montoya or Honi Ryan… These are just some of the examples of contemporary installations and pieces that will surprise the audience of the show.
To realize this exhibition, alliances have been established with about thirty prestigious museum institutions and private collections -12 of which are foreign- from eight countries: United Kingdom, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France and Spain. The Gaiás Museum will thus host works belonging to institutions such as the Uffizi Gallery (Palazzo Pitti) in Florence, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary in Vienna, the LIMA in Amsterdam, the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg (Denmark), the Fabre of Montpellier, the Prado Museum, the Reina Sofía, or the British The Courtauld Gallery, the Holburne Museum or the British Library, among others.
The exhibition is structured in four thematic blocks that mark the path and the dialogue that the works establish with each other and with the visitors. Each block is identified by a color, noted on the posters of the pieces.
swipe to create. We discover works of art that would not have existed if their creators had not moved out of their studio.
creative scrolling. Walking can be a self-sustaining creative action, which may or may not have an end or an outcome process.
art in progress. What happens when the works move?
Scroll to the hearing. Sometimes it is the work itself that forces visitors to travel: you will have to walk to discover them.
Walking through the exhibition is an invitation to play, to discover and to traverse these corridors like contemporary flâneurs. There are no floor plans. Lost is allowed.
