Substance – SUBSTANCES is an exhibition conceptualized to be installed in the historic Church of San Martín, within the royal municipality of Arévalo. With this first art presentation, OPEN FOR WORKS opens, a set of exhibitions that will activate the first cycle of Collegium – a cultural program that starts before the construction of its building. This exhibition, curated by the Mexican Patrick Charpenel, emerges from a critical reading of the traditional principles of Baroque. Starting from a reflection on traditional symbolic logic and its various cultural consequences, the exhibition addresses the relationship between “entities” of a composite nature, complexly connecting apparently dissimilar elements. Can something be what it is not? Can there be a relationship between things of a foreign nature? Is there a connection between the sacred and the profane? These questions explore in a renewed way the meaning and significance of Baroque within the framework of 19th, 20th, and 21st-century cultural production. In this project, Los Caprichos by Francisco de Goya will be exhibited with the work of twenty-five contemporary artists.

Participating artists:
Leonor Antunes, Felipe Arturo, Kasper Bosmans, Carol Bove, Maurizio Cattelan, Nina Chanel Abney, Moyra Davey, Berlinde de Bruyckere, Francisco de Goya, Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys, Vicente de Mello, Jorge Eduardo Eielson, Peter Fischli, Mathias Goeritz, Douglas Gordon, David Hammons, Iman Issa, Hayv Kahraman, Engel Leonardo, Teresa Margolles, Jordan Nassar, Wilfredo Prieto, Mariela Scafati, James Siena, Tavares Strachan.

Curator:
Patrick Charpenel

Additional information:

Wall text

The Caprices: Goya's Theatrum Mundi

Exhibition labels

Printed leaflet

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