Exhibitions
Looking to see what is absent: art, perception and revelation in dialogue between the MEIAC and the Vostell Malpartida Museum
Looking to see what is absent invites the viewer to observe from another perspective the works selected by two regional museums in Extremadura: the Extremadura and Ibero-American Museum of Art Contemporary (MEIAC) and he Museum Vostell Malpartida (MVM). The exhibition will be open from June to September 2026.
The title presupposes the existence of something that seems to be waiting to be seen, waiting to be perceived, further there of the own materiality of the construction site. See it absent requires willpower and effort on the part of the viewer: it involves shifting one's gaze, questioning immediate perception and reformulate the manner in the that we understand he world. The experience Aesthetics is not exhausted by what is visible, but is completed in the active interpretation of the viewer.
From a philosophical perspective, the essence of art can be understood as a process of "unveiling," an opening that allows something to manifest itself. The exhibition proposes to understand the construction site artistic No only as object exposed, but as threshold toward that which No is evident. That revelation No reside only in the part, but that it happens in the encounter with the subject who looks: the work acts as a trigger, as a spark that activates a latent consciousness.
The exhibition articulates this reflection through various lists of artists and poets engaged with the art object, whose diverse interpretations create a dialogue between word and image, presence and absence, the visible and the suggested. In this way, contemplation HE transforms in a exercise asset of thought and meeting, inviting to each visitor to look in order to see what is absent.
Curated by Jaime Covarsí, the exhibition is part of a collaboration between the Vostell Museum Malpartida and he MEIAC, in he frame of the 50 Anniversary of the Museum Vostell Malpartida (1976–2026).
