Opening. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”
18/02/2024.
[MAD] Spain 14.02.2024 > 12.05.2024
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
On December the exhibition “Colonization Towns. Looks at an Invented Landscape” was announced for the first time in METALOCUS. An exhibition that just opened on Wednesday at the ICO Museum, curated by Ana Amado and Andrés Patiño Erín. The exhibition will be open to the public until May 12, 2024.
A long-awaited exhibition, which does justice not only to the excellent architecture developed for the construction of utopian municipalities, designed by a group of good architects and artists, but, and especially, to its inhabitants, a population that was promised a future that had partly forgotten them.
A long-awaited exhibition, which does justice not only to the excellent architecture developed for the construction of utopian municipalities, designed by a group of good architects and artists, but, and especially, to its inhabitants, a population that was promised a future that had partly forgotten them.
“Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González
Room Image. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González.
Room Image. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González.
Room Image. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González.
Room Image. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González.
Room Image. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González.
Room Image. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González.
Room Image. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González.
Room Image. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González.
Room Image. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González.
Room Image. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González.
Room Image. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González.
Room Image. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González.
View of Esquivel (Seville). Architect: Alejandro de la Sota. Author and date unknown. Image courtesy of MAGRAMA Archive.
Street. Vegaviana (Cáceres), ca. 1958. Photograph by Joaquín del Palacio, Kindel. Courtesy of Heirs of Joaquín del Palacio.
Set of houses. Esquivel (Seville), ca. 1952. Photograph by Joaquín del Palacio, Kindel. Courtesy of Heirs of Joaquín del Palacio.
Juana Francés working on the San Isidro weir (Alicante), s/f. Author and date unknown. Image courtesy of IAACC Pablo Serrano.
Church of Villalba de Calatrava (Ciudad Real). Architect: José Luis Fernández del Amo. Photograph by Joaquín del Palacio, Kindel, ca.1956. Image courtesy of Heirs of Joaquín del Palacio
Bell tower of the church of Llanos del Sotillo (Jaén). 2018. Architect: José Antonio Corrales. Photography by Ana Amado and Andrés Patiño.
Via Crucis by Pablo Serrano. Church of Villalba de Calatrava (Ciudad Real). 2016. Photography by Ana Amado and Andrés Patiño.
A huge exhibition in which almost 200 original pieces are presented, including documents, drawings, plans, printed publications and many other photographic reproductions that show us an exhaustive tour of the achievements of a large group of brilliant architects, among whom were José Antonio Corrales, José Luis Fernández del Amo, Alejandro de la Sota, Antonio Fernández Alba, José Borobio, Carlos Sobrini, Santiago García Mesalles, or Fernando de Terán, and artists such as Manuel Millares, Arcadio Blasco, Juana Francés, Pablo Serrano or José Luís Sánchez (some of whom would form the group El Paso).
Room Image. “Colonization Towns. Glances at an Invented Landscape”. Photograph by Julio César González.
A separate chapter will be about the important and unusual presence of women among the artists: Delhy Tejero, Teresa Eguíbar, Jacqueline Canivet, Flora Macedonsky, Menchu Gal, Carmen Perujo, and Isabel Villar, among others, produced numerous works for the elaboration of elements such as sculptures, liturgical objects, stained glass or ceramics from the churches of the colonization towns.
Juana Francés working on the San Isidro weir (Alicante), s/f. Author and date unknown. Image courtesy of IAACC Pablo Serrano.
The exhibition takes a complete tour of these 300 colonization towns from their creation by the National Institute of Colonization (INC), to their current situation, collected with photographs and interviews with the protagonists of that adventure, carried out by Ana Amado and Andrés Patiño.
Their presence has been highlighted in the exhibition and in the large audiovisual triptych in which their voices, their faces, and their accents appear, telling us about their work and testimonies - often forgotten - and serving as the ever-present background of the exhibition.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog co-published by the ICO Foundation and Ediciones Asimetricas. The catalog, with 220 images (149 in color and 71 in black and white) on more than 300 pages, offers exhaustive information on the creation process and on the current situation of the colonization towns with texts signed by the two curators, in addition to by Horacio Fernández, Patricia Molins and Víctor Pérez Escolano.
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Dates
February 14 to May 12, 2024.
Hours.- From Tuesday to Saturday: 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Sunday and holidays: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Closed.- Monday.
Hours.- From Tuesday to Saturday: 11:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Sunday and holidays: 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Closed.- Monday.
Location
Museo ICO, C/ Zorrilla, 3. Madrid, Spain.
Ana AMADO
Ana Amado (Ferrol, A Coruña) is an architect, photographer and visual artist. Master's Degree in Photography from the Lens School of Visual Arts (Madrid), Master's Degree in Art, Museology and Contemporary Criticism from the USC (Santiago de Compostela), Post-Graduate in Creative Illustration from the EINA School (Barcelona), and architect from the ETSAC of architecture (University of A Coruña).
Multidisciplinary professional in the fields of architecture, photography, artistic direction in film / TV, illustration and comics, curating and exhibition design. She recently worked as an assistant to American photographer Mark Steinmetz in the USA. Currently, she combines her work as a photographer with the teaching of photography for adults and young people in schools of visual arts in Madrid.
Her personal work explores the interconnections between the various artistic manifestations, always seeking the approach of contemporary art to society. In her recent work, photography focuses on social content, where architecture is used as a framework to discuss issues such as the economic crisis or the revaluation of modern architecture in Spain.
Her work has been awarded and exhibited nationally and internationally, in Photo London 2018, the Sony World Photography Awards, PhotoEspaña2017 (Madrid), the Venice Biennale 2016 and 2018, the Royal Academy of Arts (London), Tent Gallery (Edinburgh), the International Festival Eme3 and Picasso Museum (Barcelona), or the International Prize "Obra Abierta 2016" (Plasencia), among others.
Multidisciplinary professional in the fields of architecture, photography, artistic direction in film / TV, illustration and comics, curating and exhibition design. She recently worked as an assistant to American photographer Mark Steinmetz in the USA. Currently, she combines her work as a photographer with the teaching of photography for adults and young people in schools of visual arts in Madrid.
Her personal work explores the interconnections between the various artistic manifestations, always seeking the approach of contemporary art to society. In her recent work, photography focuses on social content, where architecture is used as a framework to discuss issues such as the economic crisis or the revaluation of modern architecture in Spain.
Her work has been awarded and exhibited nationally and internationally, in Photo London 2018, the Sony World Photography Awards, PhotoEspaña2017 (Madrid), the Venice Biennale 2016 and 2018, the Royal Academy of Arts (London), Tent Gallery (Edinburgh), the International Festival Eme3 and Picasso Museum (Barcelona), or the International Prize "Obra Abierta 2016" (Plasencia), among others.
Andrés Patiño
Andrés Patiño. Andrés Patiño. Born in A Coruña, he is an architect. With professional experience in building projects in the field of architecture and urban planning. He has focused his interest on projects related to industrial architecture, renovation and housing. Currently he continues with his research work, alternating this work with his architecture studio.
Co-author of the book Habitar el agua, together with Ana Amado, published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and edited by Turner in 2020, with a second edition in 2022. He has received the FAD 2021 Prize in the “Thought and Criticism” category, the 19th COAG Award in the “Dissemination and Research” category and Mention in the “Dissemination” category at the 2021 COAM Awards. The project has been part of the contents of the Spanish Pavilion at the 2018 and 2023 Venice Architecture Biennales, of the 10th Do.co.mo.mo Congress. Ibérico 2018, of the V International Congress “On The Surface: Photography On Architecture” (MAAT, Lisbon, 2019) and has been a finalist in the PhotoEspaña20 Best Photography Book of the year contest.
Co-author of the book Habitar el agua, together with Ana Amado, published by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and edited by Turner in 2020, with a second edition in 2022. He has received the FAD 2021 Prize in the “Thought and Criticism” category, the 19th COAG Award in the “Dissemination and Research” category and Mention in the “Dissemination” category at the 2021 COAM Awards. The project has been part of the contents of the Spanish Pavilion at the 2018 and 2023 Venice Architecture Biennales, of the 10th Do.co.mo.mo Congress. Ibérico 2018, of the V International Congress “On The Surface: Photography On Architecture” (MAAT, Lisbon, 2019) and has been a finalist in the PhotoEspaña20 Best Photography Book of the year contest.
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