Seventy places comprising art centers, foundations, galleries, museums and exhibition halls from Madrid make up the venue altogether of the First Miradas de Mujeres Festival.
The Association of Women in Visual Arts (MAV, Spanish acronyms) is the organizer of the event inaugurated on the International Women’s Day and bringing together 300 artists.
The Compendium performance by Nieves Correa opened the extensive program of exhibitions and events to be carried out in the course of this month; among the highlights of the event is an exhibition by Soledad Sevilla and Paloma Polo at the Reina Sofia Museum, the participation of national laureate Eva Lootz in the Fine Arts Circle and Elena Blasco’s display at the Sala Alcalá 31 exhibition hall.
In addition, 40 galleries of contemporary art are showcasing works by female artists, and related to gender studies. Such is the case of the Blanca Berlin Gallery with the PapuaNueva Guinea(2011) exhibition consisting of unpublished photos by Isabel Muñoz; the ARANAPOVEDA gallery showing drawings by Rosana Antoli; the Raquel Ponce Gallery, housing installations by Esther Pizarro; and Alvaro Alcazar exhibiting Megalopolis, works on paper by Chus Garcia Fraile.
Video art has also found an important spot in the program with the work ¿En qué estás? starring MariaCañas, Tere Recarens and Mapi Riverato be screened at La Casa Encendida. There is also the Mujeres Indomables cycle (featuring boldface names like Maya Deren, VALIE EXPORT, Guerrilla Girls and Dora Garcia), at the Cineteca de Matadero Madrid, which relates part of the history of audiovisual contemporary art created by women from 1944 to 2009, based on a detailed and wide selection of video art materials.
The month ends with the technology-based branch of current artistic practices and thinking. On March 29, at Medialab-Prado, FrancescaMereupresents the M-artech project: Networks and technology. Coming next is Cristina García-Lasuén with the launching of a book titled Open this End, signos de contemporaneidad. Cinemapop y Arte Virtual.
More information on the program of the event at www.festivalmiradasdemujeres.com
Source: Press Release
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