Matadero Brings the Vanguard of Los Angeles to ARCO
Among the activities done for Matadero Madrid for the International Contemporary Art Fair ARCO Madrid 2010, there are some of the most unconventional projects of the city of Los Angeles. Doug Aitken presented on February 18th his video installation The Moment en la Nave 16, announced by Matadero as a “multi-channel piece, in which the spectator can immerse in a sensory ambience within the contemporary landscape”.
Simultaneously, the collective of Los Angeles Fallen Fruit created a space for meeting, collaboration, work and exchange, thanks to the fruit trees that were the protagonists of its Urban Fruit Action, which took place from the 16th to the 21st of February. (www.intermediae.es).
For its part, the collective My Barbarian announced the upcoming presentation of the performance PoLAAT: La Post-Vida es sueño, ¿qué vas a hacer? (The post-life is a dream, what are you going to do?), at the Café Teatro de las Naves del Español. The play “is a result of the workshop that they have developed at Matadero Madrid for the last two weeks, in which various artists in Madrid have participated. Among them are: Momu & No Es, Lilli Hartmann, Vicente Colomar and Manuel Rodríguez Rodríguez”.
Apart from the projects that Los Angeles’ artists are working on, Matadero Madrid presented other projects that complemented the idea behind ARCO: Mateo Maté’s installation Viajo para conocer mi geografía; and the samples Beijing Time. La hora de China, made by 17 contemporary Chinese artists; and La vida en ningún lugar, an exhibition by Juan Antonio Álvarez Reyes from the Works of the Iniciarte collection, of the Andalucian committee.
