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For secondary school educators

Today, art is constantly shrouded in debate: there are works that are political but also aesthetically seductive, there is visual impact versus bodily exploration, restraint versus excess, reality or fiction… In the framework of contemporary artistic practices, these opposing forces maintain unflagging discursive tension. These opposites are influenced by reflection around human perception in a time of eclecticism. Against this background, one of the main objectives of the course is to show the complexity of current artistic production in relation to our artistic heritage.

Spectators experience contemporary art through their bodies, each at their own pace. Sensory experience goes beyond the five senses: it persists as a mental entity that defies memory and – consciously or unconsciously – merges with future reflections. What are the narratives that define today’s artistic practices? In what parameters do they take place? Art history is a construction that is subject to changes; it is not one single, complete narrative. Based on this premise, it becomes necessary to generate a critical debate on the limits and the autonomy of artistic expressions.

In Approaches to Contemporary Artistic Practices, the emphasis shifts from historical chronology and stylistic analysis to the aesthetic ideas and conceptual poetics that determine the working conditions of contemporary artists. Open information, debate, a hybrid approach to traditional genres, and research processes are the core ideas that shape the new creative languages.

The foundation of this course is a reworking of this new artistic paradigm, through a series of theoretical sessions and direct observation and practical exercises in the Museum galleries.


Programme

We offer 4 courses during the year, one per trimester

First trimester: Saturdays, October 20 and 27, November 10 and 24, December 1, 11 am to 2 pm
Course imparted by Yolanda Jolis. Education program MACBA.

Second trimester: Saturdays, January 19, February 2 and 16, March 2 and 16, 11 am to 2 pm
Course imparted by Ariadna Miquel. Education program MACBA.

Third trimester: Saturdays, April 6, 20 and 27, May 11 and 25, 11 am to 2 pm
Course imparted by Yolanda Jolis. Education program MACBA.

Summer: the first week of July (of 1 to 5), 4 pm to 7 pm
Course imparted by Ariadna Miquel. Education program MACBA.

Total: 20 hours. Includes some distance-learning sessions.

For group and education program information please call (+34) 93 412 14 13
educacio [at] macba [dot] cat

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