Concomitentes participates in the vindication of the Carlos Maside Museum as a citizen heritage site

Public presentation of the book Mutaciones en el Espacio Público, by our mediator, Fran Quiroga.

In 1970, part of the Galician exile, together with Isaac Díaz Pardo and Luís Seoane, created the Carlos Maside Museum, the first Galician museum of contemporary art. In 1982, the permanent collection moved to the current Andrés Fernández-Albalat building in O Castro, Sada (A Coruña). The centre has works by Castelao, Maruja Mallo, Francisco Lloréns, Eugenio Granell, Urbano Lugrís and artists belonging to the Atlántica group, among others. However, the current state of the tangible and intangible heritage of the Carlos Maside Museum calls for care and criticism from civil society, public administrations, the cultural sphere and the academic community to help protect it.

With this aim in mind, various institutions and groups are organising the Carlos Maside Museum: a citizen heritage conference to be held between Santiago de Compostela and Sada on 27 and 28 September. The conference will address the legal vacuum, interests, lack of interest and other aspects that complicate the protection and conservation of the important heritage that this museum treasures.

The conference will be directed by Germán Labrador Méndez (Princeton University), Miguel Anxo Rodríguez (USC), Agar Ledo Arias (Comisión de Xestión e Políticas Culturais do CCG), Fran Quiroga (Concomitentes), Dolores Vilavedra (secretary of the CCG/USC) and will count with the collaboration of the Consello da Cultura Galega, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Concello de Sada and the collaboration of the Diputación de la Coruña.The conference is structured in three sessions. The first will take place at the Consello da Cultura Galega, and will focus on the future of the Carlos Maside Museum and the importance of post-war museums. Patricia Gabeiras, a lawyer specialising in cultural law; Anxo Lorenzo, General Secretary of Culture, Xunta de Galicia; Felipe Senén, museologist and collaborator of the Laboratorio de Formas de Galicia; and Xavier Ferreira Fernández, professor of administrative law at the USC, will participate. Also in attendance will be María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco, Director General of Fine Arts at the Ministry of Culture; Rosario Peiró, Director of Collections at the Reina Sofía Museum; Inmaculada Real López, lecturer in the Department of Art History at UniZar; and María Antonia Pérez Rodríguez, lecturer in the Department of Humanities at the UDC.

The second session, to be held at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de la Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, will be attended by former employees of the centre, people linked to the Laboratorio de Formas and scholars such as Xosé Díaz Arias, Iria-Friné Rivera Vázquez, Guillermo Escrigas, Anxo Rabuñal, Carmela Montero, Xurxo Ayán, Charo Portela, María América Díaz, Manuel Pérez Lorenzo, Sabela López Pato, Daniel López Abel and Daniel Lanero.

The day will close on Tuesday, 28 September, with the participatory session ‘The Carlos Maside Museum: communities and links’. The meeting will take place in the library of the Casa da Cultura of Sada and will be facilitated by Fran Quiroga, mediator in Concomitentes. It is a participatory space open to all citizens, with which we seek to know the link that the neighbours of Sada have with the Carlos Maside Museum. At the same time, a debate will be opened on what a new contemporary art museum should be like today. To this end, social participation methodologies will be used to generate a comfortable place for a leisurely conversation.

 For registration and more information visit the website  http://consellodacultura.gal/

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