'Symmetries of a Space', photos by Antonio Perez

There are plenty of museums in Malaga. 'Museum of Malaga' was set up to display the constant archaeological discoveries in the area around the Alcazaba and Roman Theatre in Malaga. The museum has two sections. The archaeological section is located on Avenida de Europa. The fine arts section can be found at the Palacio Episcopal and includes works by Delgrain, Belgrano and Nogales Sevilla – but here they also display smaller temporary exhibitions, often with contemporary artists.

July 15 – Aug 15, 2011, a photographic exhibition organized within the framework of cooperation between Andalusia and the North of Morocco  is on display. It’s a collection of snapshots, taken by the photographer Antonio Perez. Through a succession of contrasting images representative of both regions
the exhibition shows the geographical contiguity, cultural and social cooperation between Andalusia and Morocco. It has been exhibited in Tetouan and will also be in Cadiz.

Which side is Andalusia? Which side is Morocco?

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photo : Antonio Perez (re-photographed by Helen Vigil)
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photo : Antonio Perez (re-photographed by Helen Vigil)
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photo : Antonio Perez (re-photographed by Helen Vigil)
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photo : Antonio Perez (re-photographed by Helen Vigil)

 
 
CAAC Sevilla :  Without Reality There is No Utopia 
14 April - 10 July 2011 CAAC Sevilla
Exhibition Session: The Political Constitution of the Present
by Rudy Vigil

Just a few days before the end of the show we went to Seville’s CAAC (Centro Andaluz Arte Contemporáneo) at the ancient monastery of La Cartuja. Mostly video installations, photos and some drawings, the show attempts to analyze Jean Baudrillard’s postmodern idea that in contemporary society, where reality is constructed from our different experiences one individual or society from another, we instead produce simulations, simulacra. Andreas Huyssen takes this ideas a step further and posits that because there is no reality, only simulation, then there is no utopia, or hope for a better reality.  

The show is divided into two parts: the first section “Description of the lie”, a kind of prologue to the systems of production of the simulacra of the real. Here there are two pieces William S. Burroughs, reciting Bertolt Brecht’s, What Keeps Mankind Alive? – a dystopic view of people oppressing others. The other piece was done by Alfredo Jaar, who recovers the analysis on Pier Paolo