Exhibitions
José Val del Omar's PLAT laboratory is revived at the MUCAC La Coracha
The PLAT laboratory is presented for the first time at the MUCAC La Coracha in Málaga. Through a recreation made from the original objects that comprised it, this installation synthesizes José Val del Omar's latest work: an unfinished creative process in permanent flux. mutation. In this space, he producer experimental passed the last years his life, concentrated in the production of a set of variations audiovisuals, texts and collages that have remained preserved in their original state to this day. These materials come from the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and have been held indefinitely by the Fundación Reina Sofía since 2021, following a donation from Gonzalo Sáenz de Buruaga.
José Val de Omar, Aguaespejo granadino, 1955, Courtesy of the Val de Omar Archive.
To mark this reenactment, the audiovisual space hosts the screening of the Elemental Triptych of Spain, Val del Omar's last major film project. Conceived as a trilogy dedicated to three "elementals," the cycle comprises: Granadan Water Mirror, Fire in Castile, and Galician Caress. Filmed at different times and places, the works HE complement to through of the prologue Hopefully, that proposes a reading unitary of the group.
Val del Omar worked intensely on the completion of the triptych, but his death prevented the completion of Acariño galaico and Ojalá, so only the first two were projected. parts. Still So, he project has a worth exceptional: so much the works as The previously unpublished materials and notes offer insight into the author's thinking and the final stage of his career. It is an open-ended creation that, despite its unfinished nature, intensely reveals the filmmaker's poetic, technical, and spiritual universe.
He project ha been organized together with Malaga Pro-culture and Festival of Malaga, with the collaboration of the Val del Omar Archive.
