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This was MADRID31 "Contemporary Phantasmagorias" 2023

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Visual Arts Program 2023

La Alcalá 31 Hall One more year, Madrid31 hosts a program of continuous artistic and visual training that is articulated through conferences and workshops with the aim of completing those aspects that are not specifically included in the academic programs linked to the arts and visual culture.

In the 2023 edition, under the title "Contemporary Phantasmagoria," we journey along the shores of the invisible to situate ourselves at a level of symbolic reasoning that forces us to see and understand from the shadow of the immaterial. A journey that invites us to delve into dark terrain to reflect on phantasmagoria today, its influence, representation, and forms in contemporary art. Starting from the XNUMXth century, we discover a series of suggestive stories and experiences that allow us to reflect on absence and shadow, immaterial bodies, and the resonance of the intangible as an impulse for artistic creation.

Echo, levitation, shadow, dreams, the occult, the immaterial, and absence are the themes suggested to each of the invited artists, whose work and research are linked to these concepts. In the lectures and workshops, we champion and resort to a poetic approach in which individual narratives, experimental work, and stylistic diversity allow us to challenge our understanding of the physical world.

All workshops began with a lecture open to the general public in the auditorium of the Sala Alcalá 31 of the Community of Madrid, and continued with two days of workshops, which took place at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in the morning (and for which advance reservations were required).

 

  • Aimed at: students of the Fine Arts degree, Art History and related careers, postgraduate and doctoral students, artists, curators, art critics and anyone interested in the creative field.

  • Free activity
  • Reservations are required through the registration form provided for each workshop. Admission to the lectures is free; no prior registration is required.
  • To obtain the workshop attendance certificate, it was necessary to attend both days and complete 100% of the scheduled hours.
  • For those who signed up for a workshop: attendance at the lectures in the Alcalá 31 auditorium was not required, but it was recommended for the workshop.