Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, La chuleta, 1991
MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation. © Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, 2023.
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La chuleta, 1991
The Cheat Sheet, 1991
Object,
96.5 x 5 cm
More interested in the process than the end result, the conceptual proposals of Isidoro Valcárcel Medina delve into the poetry of the everyday. A contraption as basic and universal as crib notes for cheating in school exams becomes a device of reflection on the creative act. If in childhood and adolescence, the intimate gesture of elaborating this secret object required a capacity for synthesis and compilation of information, Valcárcel Medina uses it to condense and verbalise his radical approach to artistic practice, a practice that he does not conceive isolated from life. ‘As if it were a moral issue, and God knows that it is!, an artwork must be so faithful to its moment in time as to become the moment itself.
’ The idea of art as a vital practice, of the creative act as an experience of the here and now, and of the artist as an ordinary citizen, who becomes a voice in the manner of an exam-cheat’s crib notes.
Technical details
- Original title:
- La chuleta
- Registration number:
- 4423
- Artist:
- Valcárcel Medina, Isidoro
- Date created:
- 1991
- Date acquired:
- 2011
- Status:
- On display
- Fonds:
- MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation
- Object type:
- Object
- Media:
- Ink on paper
- Dimensions:
- 96.5 x 5 cm (height x width)
- Room:
- Meier Building, Level 1
- Credits:
- MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation
- Copyright:
- © Isidoro Valcárcel Medina
- It has accessibility resources:
- No
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