On the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Academy of Spain in Rome and, specifically, as part of the project “Living several times at the same time. The Shared Memory of the Academy of Spain in Rome", the project “Y tenia razón” (And I was right) takes place at the Museum of Malaga. An initiative, based on the work of the artist Elo Vega (RAER 2020-2021 resident) that gives it its title, where a group of creators and researchers participate in a meeting open to the public with the aim of sharing and confronting, from a perspective criticism, a series of topics that also cross the history of art or historical memory, going through psychoanalysis, the feminist struggle, politics, education or literature.
The work presented by Vega carries out a critical rereading of the famous painting An Autopsy — deposited in the Museo Málaga and belonging to the Museo del Prado — which was painted by Enrique Simonet precisely during his stay at the Academy of Rome as a pensioner in 1890. work seeks to recall the title "And I had a heart!" for which the painting is popularly known and explicitly alludes to the reproduction of Simonet's painting used by the feminist artist Bárbara Kruger in her iconic work “No radio” (1988).
And he was right, it works like this, as a transversal axis around which a seminar is unfolded featuring the voices of a group of artists and researchers invited to work, theorize and discuss the themes that these three works cross from their own disciplines: Maite Mendez Baiges, Pantxo Ramas, Leire San Martín, Justo Navarro, Javier Cuevas del Barrio, Shirin Salehi, Sara Jiménez and Rogelio López Cuenca, as well as the dancer Alicia Narejos, who has produced a performance based on the work for the spaces of the Museum and which will be released as the culmination of the seminar.
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This activity has been organized by: Academia de España en Roma | Museo de Málaga Junta de Andalucía | I+D: Desnortadas. Territorios del género en la creación artística contemporánea | Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Género e Igualdad (IGIUMA) | Acción Cultural Española | Vicerrectorado de Investigación y transferencia Universidad de Málaga | Vicerrectorado de Cultura Universidad de Málaga | La Casa Invisible. Centro social y de gestión ciudadana | Librería Suburbia | Museo Nacional del Prado | Industrias Culturales - Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte
