SALA DE EXPOSICIONES DE LA UAM, EL PABELLÓN B Y LA FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS
From the 4th to the 20th of December 2007

Espacios Vitales is a reflection on the creative process of contemporary art and the ways in which the artists and the audience relate to space. The work that has been created for a determinate location –beyond the limits of the location dedicated to artistic exhibition- aspire to call the attention of the audience that passes by every day, causing new looks and relations with the surroundings, and reactions of uncertainty, surprise, doubt or rejection. During three weeks, the Room of Exhibition of UAM, the Pavilion B and the Faculty of Filosofía y Letras (Humanities) will welcome the projects by seven young multidisciplinary artists who have been suggested to participate in different areas of the university and to reflect on the way in which each of them intends the notion of space, through pieces designed on purpose for this exhibition.

Artists: Óliver Añón, Nuria Fuster, Fernando García, Juan López, Esther Mañas y Arash Moori, Guzmán de Yarza Blache. + info

From the 21 st of December 2007 to the 21 st of December 2008

From the 21 st of December all of the passengers of these trains will be able to plug in their head-phones to their seats to listen to a monthly cultural programme of about 4 hours of duration, that will deal with news related to art, cinema, theatre, music, literature and interviews.

The impact of its contents will be huge, since the same programme will be available in a continuous form during one whole month at a national level.

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid welcomes for the first time “Proyectos veo, veo”, didactic activities for 6 to 12 years old children from public schools of the Comunidad the Madrid, that have been developing for years in other centres of the capital as the Círculo de Bellas Artes or the Calcografía Nacional. These activities will take place during the whole academic year 2007-2008. The registration is for free and must be done from the schools by filling in the respective form and sending it via fax or e-mail.

The aim of these activities is to provide a first approach of the children to art, exhibitions and museums in a pleasant, entertaining and amusing way.

With the name of the association we constituted a radio programme on contemporary art specifically designed for Radio Circulo. From December 2003, every Thursday from 10pm to 11pm you can listen to the programme “Hablar en arte” on the dial 100.4 FM or on the web page of the Círculo de Bellas Artes.

It is a specialized programme, but entertaining and comprehensible by any listener, that pursues the diffusion of contemporary art in parallel with the traditional lines. + info

Hablar en arte increases its activities for the diffusion of art with Visits-Workshop for families at Museo Lázaro Galdiano, that are going to take place every Saturday morning from October 2007 to June 2008. Divided into different itineraries, the visits-workshop are going to study the permanent collection of the Museum.

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“We are all artists”. On the basis of the assertion by the brilliant Joseph Beuys, a project of weekend in a hostel has been developed. It has been set for the initiative “Convivir es vivir” by the Direccion General de Juventud de la Comunidad de Madrid. Moreover, from 2006/2007, it takes place in the schools as an extracurricular activity.

Sure that both creation and contemplation of art are indispensable resources for children education, the association Hablar en Arte has planned a series of activities that would complete a cycle of “creation of artists”. From simple exercises of initial introduction to art to the culmination with an exhibition of the works by the children, the activity poses as a cultural challenge that they have to pass together in order to turn into true artists.
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FUNDACIÓN TELEFÓNICA
From the 13th of September to the 11th of November 2007

Hablar en arte carries out the didactic activities for the exposition Ocho Visiones: Distrito C of Fundación Telefónica.

Ocho Visiones: Distrito C is a photographic exhibition, commissioned by Pep Benllonch, whose object is the new building of Telefónica Distrito C in its different sociologic, monumental and architectonic dimensions.

Eight photographers of indisputable national fame were asked to testify the process of construction of the future building of Telefónica: Manel Esclusa, Sergio Belinchón, Bleda y Rosa, Jordi Bernadó, Montserrat Soto, Xavier Ribas, Aitor Ortiz y Valentín Vallhonrat.

The exhibition is composed of 103 pictures of different sizes and photographic processing. All of the photographs were taken between December 2005 and April 2006. + info

Saturday 22nd of September 2007

The 22nd of September Madrid welcomed the second edition of La noche en blanco. Organized by the Área de Gobierno de las Artes del Ayuntamiento, La noche en blanco of Madrid is part of the net White Nights Europe, that also includes Paris , Riga , Rome and Brussels . It is about a collective cultural meeting, which aspires to approach the citizens to the most innovative expressions of Contemporary Art, in a pleasant and entertaining way.

Hablar en Arte took part of La noche en blanco within three projects:

Installation by George Rousse at MATADERO MADRID . Coordination of the artist's assistants..

Installation by Ron Haselden at EDIFICIO ESPAÑA. Coordination of 500 volunteers.

Guided visit at the exhibition “Pompeya y Herculano” at Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Coordination of the visits. + info

PHOTOGRAPHY CENTRE ISLA DE TENERIFE
Del 6 al 30 de septiembre de 2007

Our vision of Cuban photography is still remarkably influenced by the iconic portraits of Che Guevara and the great exploit of epic photography. Due to political and historic reasons, the Cuban photographic production not linked with the social reality of the Revolution did not arouse any interest for many years. In the first place, the documentary religious photography has not been promoted by artistic institutions, causing an enormous lack of repercussion on the audience. On the other side, the formal opening of Cuban Photography to more “conceptual” tendencies did not occur until the 80‘s, which permitted the development of new approaches to the religious themes.

However, the selection presented by the Photography centre “Isla de Tenerife” in the rooms of the Circulo de Bellas Artes, attempted to emphasize the individual interpretation of every single artist on the collective spiritual memory of the nation that has been called “Latino-Africana” by its leader Fidel Castro. + info