From 10 June to 21 September, the Royal Collections Gallery will present four interventions by contemporary artists subtly integrated with the royal collections, which broaden horizons and generate new narratives in relation to gender, otherness, diversity and creative freedom.
The Alterations project takes a new look at the collections and spaces of the Royal Collections Gallery from the perspective of contemporary art in order to encourage dialogue and feedback between the historical collections and contemporary creativity. In this way, audiences are encouraged to discover different artistic proposals that help to expand modes of presentation and narratives.
This project is an invitation to generate stories and engage in a different way with the royal collections through four interventions by contemporary artists directly related to their history and presentation in the permanent exhibition: Mateo Maté, with Girl with the Thorn, 2016, a reinterpretation of the famous Spinario by Guglielmo della Porta, acquired by Philip II, which was made from casts of the piece preserved at the San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
Diana Larrea, with three works from the From Among the Dead series, 2020, in which she analyses the historical invisibility of female artists linked to the royal collections. Cristina Mejías, with Double Memory, Tremble and Turn II, 2022 in which the oral tradition and male component associated with the making of stringed instruments; and Cristina Lucas with Europe 1912–1945, 2015, which represents the bombing of civilians.
Image Credits:
- Girl with the Thorn, Mateo Maté, 2016, casts. Lucía Garrido Pérez-Fernández and José David Pérez Fernández Collection. Photo: Paco Gómez
- Double Memory, Tremble and Turn II, Cristina Mejías, 2022, mixed technique, assemblage, Private collection
- From Among the Dead - Sofonisba Anguissola, Diana Larrea, 2020, Photographic print on photochemical paper, Courtesy of the artist and the Espacio Mínimo Gallery in Madrid
- Europe 1912-1945, Cristina Lucas, 2017, Framed embroidered textile, Courtesy of the Albarrán Bourdais Gallery
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