Exhibitions
The Abelló Museum Showcase explores movement with Maria Alzamora
The series What You Don't Teach Me, curated by Mercè Vila Rigat, opens.
If Fear Were Movement opens the new cycle, Això que no m'ensenyes from the Showcase of the Abelló Museum in Mollet del Vallès, curated by Mercè Vila Rigat. A beginning marked by the work of Girona native Maria Alzamora, in a showcase that has become a capital space of the Valles museum and is freed and disconnected from the museographic content of other spaces.
This showcase acts as a link between the main entrance of the museum and the path to the house of the painter Joan Abelló. With this new cycle, the elongated 43 cubic meter display case is filled with contemporary art, all starting with the work of Maria Alzamora. The artist, starting from the same title, If Fear Were Movement , explores and creates with the movement of bodies that resist anchoring to the ground, those that run the risk of falling, those that have chosen instability because they yearn to expand their limits.
The exhibition will run until October 26 and aims to make visible what usually remains discreet, far from any showcase. In this proposal from the Abelló Museum, the center of gravity is the body of the dancer Alma Steiner, the protagonist of a composition that is constantly in motion. Her gesture does not stop: she moves, explores, seeks emotions, and pursues a clear purpose — to remove the fears that warn us of dangers, whether imaginary or real, coming from the past, present in the now or projected into the future.
Photography by Maria Alzamora.
We can explain that this showcase of the Abelló Museum has become a kind of Espai 13 of the Miró Foundation. Mercè Vila takes over from past cycles curated by Isabel Lázaro, David Armengol, Mercè Alsina, Oriol Fontdevila or Marta Pol, but it has always remained a space for the production and dissemination of visual arts, as a kind of opening point towards the multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinary nature of the languages of emerging artists. It is necessary to stop in front of this artistic showcase always, whatever the direction of a city in constant movement like Mollet. And with Aixto que no m'ensyes and an initial point of Si la por fos movimento, the gaze must align itself with the movement created by Maria Alzamora.
Text by Mercà Vila of the new cycle of L'aparador
“A body like a receptacle filled with bones, muscles, joints and blood. This same body, also filled with memories, ideas, illusions and fears. Thus, a body like an amphora overflowing with matter and emotions. Sometimes, this body-receptacle is supported on a wide foot that gives it stability, while, at others, it is supported by an unstable base that makes it wobble a little. Each body has made itself in the image of the container that best suited it: there are those that have barely reinforced the foot so as not to feel that they could fall and spill in a gust of wind, and there are those that have preferred to make a rounded base to always feel the swaying.”
Photography by Maria Alzamora
