An Act of Seeing that Unfolds puts forward an approach to the Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch Collection, a major repertory of different temporalities and geographies centred, first and foremost, on Latin American contemporaneity — particularly Brazilian — and the artistic practices that transpired in Eastern Europe across the second half of the twentieth century.
The pieces selected for the show pivot around the theory of gestures coined by Czech-Brazilian thinker Vilém Flusser. For Flusser, these rituals of perception — which can seem minimal and not respond to a specific causation — not only make our own aesthetic and affective recognition possible, but also underpin a cartography of relations and crossovers that join seemingly disparate artists.
Therefore, a dialogical and non-linear survey is laid out, starting from a site-specific project by Fernanda Gomes and moving through anti-art movements in the former Yugoslavia, Neo-concretism and artistic responses that sparked political events in the 1960s and 1970s in the contexts mentioned. Equally, another setting is devoted to Mira Schendel and other unions are explored, for instance those which span the idea of territory or are installed inside experimentation with and from language.
Exhibition´s details
The Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch Foundation
Current exhibitions
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24 November 2022 - 17 April 2023
Margarita Azurdia
Margarita Rita Rica Dinamita
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16 November 2022 - 27 February 2023
Documentary Genealogies
Photography 1848–1917
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21 October 2022 - 16 May 2023
Manolo Quejido
Immeasurable Distance
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7 October 2022 - 9 April 2023
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
Glass is my skin
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28 September 2022 - 27 March 2023
Francesc Tosquelles
Like a Sewing Machine in a Wheat Field
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21 September 2022 - 27 February 2023
Leonor Serrano Rivas
Natural magic
Program: Fisuras -
11 November, 2022 – 10 February, 2023
Cards on the Table
The memory of Nunca Máis and the stacked political cards
Muestras documentales, Biblioteca y Centro de Documentación