BABEL MATERIA Y LENGUAJE

‘Babel materia y lenguaje’ is a group show bringing together a selection of works from the Kells Collection. Launched in 1996, it initially focused on modern art, but in 2004 Juan Manuel Elizalde and Choli Fuentes decided to enter the complex world of contemporary art.

This exhibition, made up of around fifty works that have been grouped into four elastic blocks, corresponding to the four rooms that make up the Carlos Pérez Room at the CCCC, and four major themes revolving around visual arts. The backbone of the whole is none other than the binomial matter and language. Following the belief that matter is at the origin of almost everything, from the four elements to imagination and creativity. For its part, and leaving aside the debate that has already been settled on whether art is a language or not, there is no doubt that both sculpture and painting (which make up the practical totality of this project) are poetic languages (according to Ferrater Mora: the one in which the what is inseparable from the how). Convinced of this indivisibility of the work of art, everything is included and everything is part of the material, of its materiality: dimension, proportion, colour, composition, texture, figure/photography, reading, interpretation, symbolism, expression… even energy.

Curated by Juan Bautista Peiró.

Opening Friday 22.11, 7pm
Tuesdays to Sundays, 10am > 8pm
until Sunday 02.03.25

Location
Carrer Museu, 2
46003
Valencia (ES)

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