11.05.2022

Collegium will present in Arévalo the exhibition Sustancia-SUSTANCIAS with an event open to all the public

• The event will be held next Saturday, May 28, beginning at midday, at the Church of San Martín de Arévalo.

• Sustancia-SUSTANCIAS is curated by Patrick Charpenel and includes works by artists like Francisco Goya, Maurizio Cattelan, Leonor Antunes, Teresa Margolles and Wilfredo Prieto, among others.

• The exhibition is the first of the Abierto por Obras program, with which Collegium starts its exhibition program during the museum's formation and structural development phase.

Arévalo, May 11, 2022.- On Saturday, May 28, Collegium will celebrate in Arévalo the public presentation of Sustancia-SUSTANCIAS, the exhibition which began its artistic program in the town of Ávila on February 22.

The official act, to be held at 12h at the Church of San Martín, will feature some words by Javier Lumbreras, founder of Collegium, and Aldones Nino, assistant curator. This will be followed by a tour of the exhibition and a degustation of local products.

An exhibition to rethink the legacies of the Baroque from a contemporary point of view.

Sustancia-SUSTANCIAS is an exhibition conceived by curator Patrick Charpenel for the Church of San Martín, in the municipality of Arévalo. It marks the beginning of Abierto por Obras, Collegium's first project, conceived as a prologue to the constitution and construction of the building that will house the museum. Abierto por Obras entails a series of exhibitions and artistic actions inside the Church of San Martín de Arévalo, with the involvement of prominent national and international contemporary artists.

The exhibition Sustancia-SUSTANCIAS puts in dialogue the series of Goya's Caprices with works by twenty-five contemporary artists, and is constructed from a critical reading of the traditional principles of the Baroque. Can something be what it is not? Can there be a relationship between things of different natures? What connection exists between the sacred and the profane? These questions invite us to rethink the meaning and significance of the Baroque in the context of the cultural production of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.

The exhibition includes works by Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Leonor Antunes, Felipe Arturo, Kasper Bosmans, Carol Bove, Mauricio Cattelan, Nina Chanel Abney, Moira Davey, Berlinde de Bruyckere, 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 and Tavares Strachan.

About Collegium

Collegium is a center for education, research and experimentation of modern and contemporary art. Its operational center is located in the city of Arévalo, in Castilla y León, where it is already developing an exhibition, educational and activity program while preparing its physical building in the former Jesuit School of the city.
Collegium aims to contribute to the recovery and revaluation of the rich cultural, historical and architectural heritage of Arévalo and its surroundings, energizing the local cultural context while positioning this city on the map of national and international contemporary art.  
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