The Community of Madrid shows the close relationship between technology and living matter in the Organic Machine exhibition

Posted On: March 30, 2023

An unmissable event is its exhibition organic machine, which can be seen until April 23, deployed in various spaces of Teatros del Canal such as halls, halls, rehearsal rooms or corridors, and composed of 20 installations by national and international artists. The sample deals with what is transforming one of the most progressive sciences today, in addition to being the most linked to life: biology, in its ramifications in genetics, biotechnology, biodynamics, biorobotics and its biomedical, but also ecological and environmental applications.

For example, the French multimedia artist France Cadet presents a collection of artificial bellies, similar to those of Matrix, in which robots grow, and wonders about a possible future in which the machines would be able to reproduce.

Another of the facilities akousmaflora, consists of a garden made up of real musical plants that react to touch, words or sounds because they are sensitive to electrostatic energy. For his part, Bill Vorn, a Canadian artist dedicated to robotic art, stages ICU (intensive care unit), an installation with bedridden, sick and suffering machines, which react to the presence of the spectators, in a medical allegory in which mechanical creatures and their survival system move in pain.

The exhibition brings together young people with prestigious international careers such as the Iranian Yosra Mojtahedi, the Brazilian Anaisa Franco or the Spaniard María Castellanos Vicente, who presents a set made up of three small greenhouses, where machines and plants cohabit.

Among the programs broadcast on Canal Connect, we should also note the preview (tomorrow Friday in the Black Room) of trust me tomorrow, from the Norwegian company Verdebsteatret. Playing both with the total absence of light and with its excess, this work plunges the viewer into absolute blindness and leads him to a sensory experience that takes place in the intermediate space between now and what is remembered by memory. .

The stage performances end with the family dance show clouds, presented in the Green Room on April 1 and 2 by Compagnie Sam-Hester, founded by Franco-Swiss choreographer Perrine Valli in 2015. The piece, where circus, dance and text are assembled, is a poetic ballet that questions the impact of technology on different generations of people. When it was created in 2019, Perrine Valli involved around twenty children in the production, selecting them during meetings in theatres, schools and associations and preparing them in workshops in the days preceding the performance.

Programming before Easter

Before the celebration of Holy Week, the Royal Coliseum of Carlos III, in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, hosts a saetas flamenco recital (April 1) in which the voices of Caridad Vega, María del Mar Fernández and María López They will be accompanied by the band of bugles and drums of the Holy Christ of the Three Falls of Madrid.

For its part, the Corral de Comedias de Alcalá de Henares represents on its stage (March 31 and April 1), The precursors, written and directed by Luis Sorolla. This work tells the story of three teenagers after growing up alone in a Forest. Through their words, they construct another world that leads them to wonder who they are, where and when they are, and if there is a limit to what can be counted.

Continuing its usual programming, the Teatro de la Abadía, in the José Luis Alonso room, offers there is someone in the woods, directed by Joan Arqué. Seven performers on stage and the music performed live take us on a journey between Bosnia in the 90s and the Barcelona Olympics, between the real witnesses and their representation, between the story of the protagonists and the memories of the actors and actresses themselves , between reality and fiction .

The Pilar Miró Cultural Center has programmed, on Saturday April 1, the works Pepita’s Farmby Tina Lorenzi. Circus and theater come together, thanks to puppets, magic, acrobatics, juggling, music, and of course, the giant bubbles that Tina Mandarina presents to us in this very special farm.

And finally, Lope de Vega returns to the Paco Rabal Cultural Center (April 1), with the performance of the work love in love, under the direction of Borja Rodríguez. Love, envy, jealousy, grievances, triumphs and insomnia will meet in this forest, where united people will triumph, struggling against adversity and remembering that the actions of men and women will always prevail on the designs of the powerful or, in this case, the gods.

Calendar of exhibitions in the Community of Madrid

The cultural agenda of the Community of Madrid for this weekend also includes different exhibition proposals such as Madrid in the Abello Collection, which covers a selection of drawings and paintings belonging to Anna Gamazo and Juan Abelló, two of Europe’s most important art collectors. Through 55 pieces by artists such as Francisco de Goya, Santiago Rusiñol, Antonio Joli and David Roberts, among others, Madrid in the Abello Collection. Paintings and drawings from the 17th to the 20th centuries, It opens an exceptional window on the past of the region with a panoramic view over four centuries. It can be seen at the Real Casa de Correos, seat of the regional government, until April 23, with free admission.

Until June, the Sala Alcalá 31 welcomes Everything I see will outlive me, an exhibition dedicated to the production of the 1990s by the sculptor Juan Muñoz, one of the most important European artists of the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition brings together some of his most emblematic pieces, dated between the years 1990 and 2001, the year of his premature death.

There Isabelle Canal Room II guests, until July 23, Madrid/ Urban Fashion, which allows you to see the fashion reports made by the photographer Joana Biarnés (1935-2018), and which were mainly concentrated in Madrid, between 1962 and 1972. The exhibition includes more than a hundred photographs which show the evolution of fashion and society at a time of profound change, such as the sixties and the beginning of the seventies.

For its part, Region. Landscape, photography and heritage, which will remain in the El Águila complex until May 7, offers a unique journey through the Community of Madrid through a selection of 199 photographs, one for each municipality of Madrid and each district of the capital, from a landscape point of view as heritage. This is part of the result of the program Missionary regiona historic photographic expedition throughout the territory of the region, carried out by 17 photographers and 16 photographers.

There Young Arts Hall offers The house as a reflection in a mirrorone of the winning projects of the XIV edition of the call The commissioner wantedwhich is committed to new curatorial models, facilitating access to the professional world for young curators.

In the Museum of the Dos de Mayo Art Center of the Community of Madrid-CA2M you can see the exhibition Jon Mikel Euba. Animals that carry the weight of mysterious loads in environments created by opposing forcesorganized by Manuel Segade, until April 23.

The Community of Madrid also collaborates with different institutions in the promotion and dissemination of culture. In this sense, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, in collaboration with the National Gallery in London, presents the exhibition Lucian Freud. New perspectives, a retrospective devoted to the British painter, on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. After its presentation in London, it can be seen until June 18 in the capital.

The exhibitions of the Museo Nacional del Prado Spanish Masterpieces from the Frick Collection, which can be visited until July 2. It is a set of nine emblematic works by Velázquez, El Greco, Murillo and Goya, most of which have not been seen in our country since their departure from Spain, and which has the financial support of the government regional.

Likewise, and until April 17, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía has programmed, in collaboration with the Government of Madrid, the exhibition Marguerite Azurdia. Dynamite Margarita Rita Rica, the first monograph in Europe devoted to the Guatemalan, one of the most emblematic Central American artists of the 20th century.

Friday March 31

there is someone in the woods

Joan Arque

Until April 2 – 8:00 p.m. – José Luis Alonso Hall – Teatro de la Abadía. MADRID

The precursors

Luis Sorolla

Until April 1 – 7:30 p.m. – Corral de Comedias. ALCALA DE HENARES

Programming 3rd edition of Canal Connect 2023 – Teatros del Canal

Saturday April 1

flamenco arrows

lola cortés

6:00 p.m. – Royal Carlos III Coliseum. SAN LORENZO DE L’ESCORIAL