Conference The Carlos Maside Museum: a citizen's heritage

Collectives and institutions unite in defence of a unique museum.

The Carlos Maside Museum: a citizen's heritage

Dates: 27-28 September 2021

 Director: Germán Labrador Méndez (Princeton University), Miguel Anxo Rodríguez (USC), Agar Ledo Arias (Comisión de Xestión e Políticas Culturais do CCG), Fran Quiroga (Concomitentes/USC), Dolores Vilavedra (secretary of the CCG/USC).

 Organised by: Consello da Cultura Galega / USC / Concello de Sada

Collaborators: Deputación da Coruña, HAAYDU Grupo de Investigación Historia da Arte, da Arquitectura e do Urbanismo da USC (Programa de consolidación e estruturación de unidades de investigación competitivas do SUG. Grupos con potencial de crecemento ED431B 2020/41), HISTAGRA Grupo de investigación Historia Agraria e Política do Mundo Rural da USC (Axudas á Consolidación e estruturación 2018, GRC GI-1371), e TLLC Grupo Teoría da literatura e Literatura comparada da USC (Plan Galego ED431C 2021/34).  

The Carlos Maside Museum (1970) is one of the projects created under the auspices of the Laboratorio de Formas de Galicia, promoted by Isaac Díaz Pardo, Luís Seoane and a group of intellectuals from the Republican exile in Buenos Aires. The foundation of the MCM meant the recovery of the Galician art of the past and the will to overcome the fractures of the recent past from the restitution of the historical memory. Its patrimonial value, formed, at its origin, by the founders' families, increases with the legacies of several exiles, as well as of people and entities interested in the renovating movement of the Galician art from its first reference, A. R. Castelao.

The contents and museography of the MCM have changed slightly since the permanent collection was moved in 1982 to the current building of Andrés Fernández-Albalat in O Castro, Sada. It proposes a precise itinerary, with pieces by Castelao and the Movemento Renovador on the ground floor, authors and movements from the Civil War to the present day on the middle floor, and a final room on the top floor dedicated to humorous painting and the designed band. Díaz Pardo himself supervised the last installation of the collection, organising the rooms, the museography, and historicising the story of our art in the posters and texts that still remain in the space.

The current state of the tangible and intangible heritage of the MCM demands from civil society, public administrations, the cultural sector and the academic community a work of care and criticism that will decisively help to protect it. These conferences address the legal balance, interests, lack of interest and other aspects that complicate the protection and conservation of the important heritage that it holds.

Session 1. The Maside Museum: a citizen's heritage

Monday 27 September. Consello da Cultura Galega, Santiago de Compostela

9:15 Benvida

9:30-11:30 PANEL 1. THE FUTURE OF THE MASIDE MUSEUM: LEGAL, PATRIMONIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVES.

Patricia Gabeiras (lawyer specialising in cultural law). Fisuras legais para a protección pública do MCM.

Anxo Lorenzo (Secretario Xeral de Cultura, Xunta de Galicia)

Felipe Senén (museologist and collaborator of the Laboratorio de Formas de Galicia). Why should it be BIC or MCM?

Intervene and moderate: Xavier Ferreira Fernández (Professor of Administrative Law, USC). The future of the MCM.

Debate

11:30-12:00 COFFEE BREAK

12:00-14:00 PANEL 2. A IMPORTANCIA DUN MUSEO DA POSGUERRA E O EXILIO.

María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco (Director General of Fine Arts, Ministry of Culture). Galicia no «campo cerrado» da posguerra.

Rosario Peiró (Director of the Collections Department, Museo Reina Sofía). A importancia do exilio e da posguerra na colección permanente do MNCARS.

Inmaculada Real López (lecturer in the Department of Art History, UniZar). O MCM na red mundial de Museos do exilio.

Intervene and moderate: María Antonia Pérez Rodríguez (lecturer in the Department of Humanities, UDC). O MCM pensado dende o exilio.

Debate

Session 2. The Carlos Maside Museum: utopia and reality

Monday 27 September. Centro de Estudos Avanzados, USC, Santiago de Compostela

16:30 - 18:30 PANEL 3. O MUSEO CARLOS MASIDE: UTOPIA AND REALITY (1)

Presentation of the session: Germán Labrador Méndez

Xosé Díaz Arias: O MCM. A museum project of the Laboratorio de Formas.

Iria-Friné Rivera Vázquez: O MCM. Identidade galega e aportación intelectual nunha produción industrial para a cidadanía.

Guillermo Escrigas: O MCM. Unha realidade (xurídica) imaxinada.

Anxo Rabuñal: Experimentos no Laboratorio.

Carmela Montero: Apúntao na barra de xeo. Why don't you write the BIC for Maside? Does it matter?

Xurxo Ayán: Museu, Pobo, Galego, Maside.

Moderator: Agar Ledo Arias

Debate

18:30-19:00 COFFEE BREAK

19:00 - 21:00 PANEL 4. O MUSEO CARLOS MASIDE: UTOPIA AND REALITY (2)

Charo Portela: En defensa das industrias da memoria.

María América Díaz: Orixes do MCM: da necesidade á realidade.

Manuel Pérez Lorenzo: O MCM. Identidade e vangarda desde Sada.

Sabela López Pato: A mirada atlántica na museoloxía galega.

Daniel López Abel: Matrimonializar o Laboratorio de Formas.

Daniel Lanero: Galicia, anos 70: unha sociedade en ebulición?

Moderator: Miguel Anxo Rodríguez

Debate

*The capacity of this conference is limited, so it is necessary to register in advance by e-mail xornadasmuseocarlosmaside@gmail.com

Session 3. Participative day. The Carlos Maside Museum: communities and link.

Tuesday 28th September. Library, Casa da Cultura de Sada

16:00 - 18:00 XORNADA PARTICIPATIVA. THE CARLOS MASIDE MUSEUM: COMMUNITIES AND LINKS.

Presented and moderated by: Fran Quiroga

Participative space open to all citizens with which we try to know the link that the citizens of Sada have with the Carlos Maside Museum. At the same time we will open a debate on what a new museum of contemporary art should be like in the town. We will use methodologies of social participation to create a comfortable place for a leisurely conversation.

18:00-18:30 COFFEE BREAK

18:30 - 19:00 CONCLUSIÓNS: O MUSEO QUE VÉN: CONSTRUÍR UN FUTURO PARA O MUSEO CARLOS MASIDE.

The format will be participative and capacity is limited, so it is necessary to register in advance by emailing cultura@sada.gal.

To see the programme with PDF click here.