An exhibition that looks at the viewer, at the MUN
Graduates of the Master in Curatorial Studies are the authors of an exhibition proposal on how works of art define their ideal viewer. The exhibition, with pieces from the Arco Foundation's collection, will be inaugurated in the fall of 2025.
The curatorial project "Dear viewer, what are you looking at?" has been selected among the final projects of the last graduating class of the MUN 's Master's Degree in Curatorial Studies to be carried out in the Museum's galleries in the near future. Florencia Baliña, Andrés Ruiz, Aroa Urteaga and Andrea Vargas are the authors of this curatorial proposal, directed by professors Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro and María Aguilera.
The project includes 35 works from the ARCO Foundation Collection, which since 1987 brings together productions by renowned artists from the national and international scene. It includes works by Jon Mikel Euba, Eva Fábregas, Teresa Solar Abboud, Anish Kapoor and Jorge Macchi.
"Dear viewer, what are you looking at?" puts the focus on the figure of the art viewer whose gaze and encounter completes and makes art possible. The starting hypothesis is that every artist conceives a model of spectator at the moment of creating his work, so this exhibition looks at the one who looks and proposes a typology of ways of looking established from the works themselves.
Thus, the curators invite each visitor to be the protagonist of the tour and to reflect on their way of looking, adopting possible ways of linking with the works, such as that of the intellectual, who tries to decipher everything that hides a work or that of the voyeur, among others.
As a result of the research work at Fundación Arco during their master's studies, the four graduates have been invited to curate the selection and arrangement of the works in the collection that will be hung next March in the Sala del Consejo at the ARCOmadrid 2025 fair.