Museum of Contemporary Art Helga de Alvear

The Helga de Alvear Collection features the work of the most representative artists of this movement. Related to Op Art, minimalism, and geometric abstraction, it originated in Southern California in the 1960s.

We propose a journey through the works of artists who, through drawing, have an impact on the individual and today's society, from approaches that start from the ironic, the grotesque and the satirical, reflecting in parallel on artistic practice and the agents involved in art, renewing and updating the caricature genre that has its roots in Goya or Hogarth.

The Land Art has its main focus in the United States and was defined in exhibitions such as “Erthworks”, Dwan Gallery, New York (1968) or “Antiforma”, Gibson Gallery, New York (1968 ). They seek to rediscover the capacity of nature, its physical and energetic potentiality. Create using precisely the processes and energies that govern it.

We propose a tour of the collection making connections between various works and literary references to which they directly allude or which we suggest. "Visit without anyone" part of the novel by the Catalan writer Enrique Vila-Matas Kassel does not invite logic, where he recounts his experience in the dOCUMENTA (13) of 2012 invited by the curator Chus Martínez, and in which he conceived his “Conference without anyone”.

A selection of works and artists where the presence of the city from different points of view, from different poetics of gaze, is very significant. Images of the urban as an expression of post-modernity, of society and the contemporary individual.