A exhibition that looks at the viewer, at the MUN
Graduates of the Master's Degree in programs of study of Curatorship are the authors of an exhibition proposal on how works of art define their ideal viewer. The sample, with pieces from the Arco Foundation's collection, will be inaugurated in autumn 2025.
The curatorial project "Dear viewer, what are you looking at?" has been selected among the final works of Master's Degree of the last promotion of the Master's Degree in programs of study of Curatorship of the MUN to be carried out soon in the halls of the Museum. 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 spectator, what are you looking at?" puts the focus on the figure of the art spectator whose gaze and meeting 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 work of research in Fundación Arco carried out during their programs of study at Master's Degree, the four graduates have been invited to curate the selection and arrangement of the works from the collection that will be hung next March at conference room of committee, at the ARCOmadrid 2025 fair.