PALMA.- Since the end of 2015 and throughout the year 2016,
Es Baluard museum has developed “Ciutat de vacances” (Vacation City), a project related to mass tourism in the cities which, with different phases and production and research actions, now emerges in Palma after an initial presentation/exhibition at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani, in Venice.
Curated by Nekane Aramburu, the project was initiated as a work in progress with analysis and reflections carried out through collective relational participations in dialogue with different agents, creative proposals and networked analytical interventions. The exhibition will be at Es Baluard museum in Palma, Mallorca, until 22 October, 2017.
In the museum’s temporary exhibition hall, there is a selection of the productions developed for the project, forcing them into dialogue with another artworks that complement or provide a vehicle for approaches and focuses of reflection on the basis of contemporary creation.
‘Ciutat de vacances’ proposes a methodology that retakes, as a starting point, stereotypes of photography and contemporary iconography to develop hypothesis of transversal readings, cut off from the usual formalism, and based on offshore procedural field works linked to an experimental pedagogy, which deals on-site with the historical, social and urban change that we experiment nowadays.
The artists participating in the project are Left Hand Rotation, Marina Planas, Miguel Trillo, Neus Marroig, Ana A. Ochoa, Juan Aizpitarte, Ángel Marcos, Idensitat (Gaspar Maza-Ramon Parramon), Irene Pittatore, Irene de Andrés, Xisco Bonnín, Mélissa Epaminondi, Daniel Gasol, Adrian Melis, Joan Miró and Massimo Vitali. They are joined by Jana Leo, Marc Morell, Fran Simó and Tomás Ruiz-Rivas in analytics and investigation.
‘Ciutat de vacances’ counts with the participation of different museums and institutions, like Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona), IED - Istituto Europeo di Design (Venice), and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante (MACA), through the Valencia Consortium of Museums.
