Fundación NMAC | |
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  South of Spain | |
| Established | June 2001 |
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| Location | Vejer de la Frontera, Spain |
| Coordinates | 36°14′34.2″N 5°54′26.6″W / 36.242833°N 5.907389°W |
| Director | Jimena Blázquez |
| Website | fundacionnmac.org |
The NMAC Foundation is a private museum focused on Contemporary Art and the study of the relationship between art and nature. [1]
The Foundation was inaugurated in June 2001 and has international site-specific projects in the form of sculptures, video-art, performances.
Location and infrastructure
editThe Foundation is located at the Dehesa of Montenmedio whose extension area contains with more than 500 hectares wich 30 formed the NMAC Foundation. Surrounded by aMediterranean Forest, in Vejer de la Frontera (Cádiz)its limits borders on the south by the La Breña y Marismas del Barbate Natural Park.
The collection is divided in two different zones: the outdoor pieces within the Mediterranean Forest and the indoor pieces into old military barracks, which were restored to receive the Foundation facilities: reception and offices, exhibition rooms, Children workshop, library and documentation center. The restoration works beggan in 2000, restoring three barracks to receive the reception, the offices and two video rooms (project rooms). In 2002 three others barracks were restored and actually they receive the library and the works of artists like Marina Abramović, Berni Searle, Santiago Sierra, Cristina Lucas y Pilar Albarracín. By the other hand The French Colective Campement Urbain undertaken a signposting project to mark the outdoodr itinerary with an original design of yellow mushrooms signs.
In 2003 the chinese artist Huang Yong Ping modified the structure of two more barracks for the Hammam project, which recreates an Hamman.[2]
At the Forest's natural environment the artists create site-specific projects, conceived in distinct supports like installations, sculptures, architectonic stuctures, photography, video art and performance.
At the Foundation the works stablish a dialogue with the natural environment, according the artist intention, integrating art and nature.
Exhibition
editThe Foundation was inaugurated in June 2001, from the early works of the collection are the works of Marina Abramović, Maurizio Cattelan, Sol LeWitt and Roxy Paine, among others.
In 2003 happened the next exhibition[3] with the incorporation of projects of artists like: Michael Lin, Ester Partegàs, Fernando Sánchez Castillo and Huang Yong Ping.
In 2006 the Foundation carry out the exhibition Testigos/Witnesses,[4] related with the geographic zone where is the Foundation. The artists that participated in this ocasion were: Adel Abdessemed, Maja Bajevic, Jeppe Hein, Cristina Lucas, Pascale Marthine Tayou y Shen Yuan.
In May 2009 inagure the last work of the collection, Second Wind 2005, of the californian artist James Turrell, one of te sky´s spaces unique with this characteristics in Spain. [5]
Permanent collection
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The collection have works of contemporary artists whose projects has been undertaken from 2001 to 2009 at the second half of 20th Century and the beginning of 21st Century. The Foundation′s permanent collection have the following works:
- Second Wind, 2005.
- (Ultimate work inaugurated in May 2009)[8]
Temporary projects
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The Foundation also is in charge of many temporary projects. In chronological order:
Educational program
editThe Foundation has an Education Department that organizes guide tours to the collection and workshops for the schools, as well as a website that develop activities adapted for different publics. It also organizes colloquiums, profesional journey and publishes exhibition and artists catalogs.
During the summer's months the Foundation used to carry out a summer program with cultural and pedagogical activities like: workshops, concerts, storytelling confirences and guided tours.
Books and Catalogs edited by Foundation
edit- BLÁZQUEZ ABASCAL, Jimena; Arte y naturaleza. Guía de Europa, Parques de esculturas. Edita Fundación NMAC y Documenta Artes y Ciencias Visuales, Cádiz, 2006, p. 78-83.
- BLÁZQUEZ ABASCAL, Jimena et al; Testigos-Witnesses. Ed. Charta, Italia, 2006.
- VV. AA., Arte y Naturaleza. Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo. Edita Fundación NMAC, Cádiz, 2001.
- VV. AA., Cleaning the house. Edita Fundación NMAC, Cádiz, 2007.
- VV. AA., Guía de buenas prácticas. Proyectos de arte contemporáneo en espacios públicos, naturales y urbanos. Edita Fundación NMAC, Cádiz, 2002.
- VV. AA., James Turrell. Ed. Charta, Italia, 2009.
- VV. AA., Love Stories. Alekxandra Mir. Edita Fundación NMAC, Cádiz, 2008.
- VV. AA., Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo. Edita Fundación NMAC, Cádiz 2003.
- VV. AA., Puente. Edita Fundación NMAC, Cádiz, 2005.
Image Gallery
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Marina Abramović, The Hero, 2001
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Maurizio Cattelan, No Title, 2001
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Olafur Eliasson, Quasi Brick Wall, 2003
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Sol LeWitt, Cinder Block, 2001
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Pascale Marthine Tayou, Plansone Duty Free, 2006
See also
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edit- ^ Trasplante de Trasplantado
- ^ "Huang Yong Ping, Hammam · 2003".
- ^ "Second stage at the NMAC Foundation/El Cultural".
- ^ "Testigos/Witnesses Exhibition/El Cultural".
- ^ "Interview with James Turrell about the Second Wind 2005 inauguration/El País".
- ^ Pawel Choroschilow, Jürgen Harlem, Joachim Sartorius, Peter-Klaus Schuster, Kunst Aus Fünf Jahrzehn ten, Edita Berliner Festspiele, Alemania, 2003, págs. 167-168.
- ^ VV.AA., Olafur Eliasson. Your Lighthouse. Works with Light 1991-2004, Edita Hatje Cantz Publishers, Alemania, 2004, pág. 144.
- ^ "Turrel bring closer the Cosmos to Vejer de la Frontera".
- ^ Susana Singer & Michael Brenson, Sol LeWitt Concrete Block Structures, Alberico Cetti Serbelloni Editore, Italia, 2002, pág. 93.
External Links
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Category:Museums in Spain Category:Tourism in Spain Category:Sculptures Category:Contemporary art Category:Postmodern art