Collaboration with the Reina Sofia Museum to study the formation of the artist
The Museo Universidad de Navarra, the Museo Reina Sofía and the Faculty of Fine Arts of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid have created a study platform that, under the name"The formation of the artist: research and academic capitalism", aims to analyze art education at a time when academic education is being debated between the creative industry and the specificity of the role of the artist.
Next Friday, June 7, the University of Navarra will host the second working session: during the morning, members of the platform and several directors of Faculties and Schools of Art will analyze, behind closed doors, art education from the academy to the contemporary, through the pedagogical models of the avant-garde. The conclusions will be transmitted to the general public, professionals and the media that same evening, at 6:30 p.m., in the city, in the auditorium of the Museum of Navarre.
Carlos Chocarro, Academic and Public Programs Director of Museo Universidad de Navarra will introduce the team and moderate the roundtable.
Other sessions:
The Faculty of Fine Arts of the Complutense University of Madrid hosted the first seminar last February. The discussion revolved around artistic practices, research and university and R+D+i as a new model of knowledge. The third and last seminar of the program will take place at the Reina Sofia Museum in October of this year. The analysis will close with a working day entitled "The knowledge of images: the debate on the image and on art as knowledge" and a summary of conclusions.
- Jesús Carrillo, director of Public Programs at the Museo Reina Sofía. Since 1997 he has been a professor in the Department of History and Theory of Art at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he has been a tenured professor since 2007. He currently directs the Department of Cultural Programs at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
- Guadalupe Echevarría, director of the School of Fine Arts in Bordeaux, France. She has been curator/producer of contemporary art (MNCARS, Madrid; ICA, Boston) and has produced exhibitions, numerous articles and texts for catalogs. In 1982 she created the Video Festival (1982-1984) at the San Sebastian International Film Festival, which showed pioneering works of audiovisual creation, including video clips. The following year he created the Vitoria Music Video Festival.
- Valentín Roma, Elisava-Pompeu Fabra University School, Barcelona. Project tutor in the Independent Studies Program (PEI) of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) and professor of Theory and History of Curating in the Master in Curating and Cultural Practices in Art and New Media of the Media Center of Art and Design (MECAD) of Barcelona.
- José Díaz Cuyás, University of La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Díaz Cuyás is a professor of aesthetics at the University of La Laguna and previously worked as a documentalist, creating and directing the Contemporary Art Documentation Center of the CAAM in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Since the 1980s he has been giving lectures and publishing articles in specialized magazines and is currently director of ACTO: revista de pensamiento artístico contemporáneo (ACTO: magazine of contemporary artistic thought).
Other members
Selina Blasco (Faculty of Fine Arts of Madrid), Aurora Fernández Polanco (Faculty of Fine Arts of Madrid), Jorge Fernández-Santos (Ramón y Cajal Researcher, Jaume I University of Castellón), Carlos Chocarro (University of Navarra), Horacio Fernández (Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca), José Miguel Ascunce (Director School of Art of Pamplona) and Kepa Landa (European University of Madrid).