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Second lecture in the series Other Perspectives: Film, Writing and Photography in Twentieth-century Spanish Art, the third series organised in relation to the exhibition Masaveu Collection. Twentieth-Century Spanish Art: From Picasso to Barceló, led by the curator of the show, María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco. 

In this talk, Irene García Chacón, with a PhD in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid, will analyse artists’ texts and writings as a space for reflecting on artistic practice and aesthetic theory.

All lectures take place at 7.15 pm in the María Cristina Masaveu Auditorium.

IMPORTANT: Free admission on a first come, first served basis. Tickets (one per person) can be collected at the Foundation’s ticket office from one hour before the start of the lecture. One third of the tickets will be available for booking through the website from 7 DAYS before the event. For any queries, please contact infomadrid@fmcmp.com

BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS

With a PhD in Art History from the Complutense University of Madrid (2018), Irene García Chacón was the recipient of the International Mention and the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award courtesy of a university teacher training scholarship at the Human and Social Sciences Centre of the Spanish National Research Council. During her training she undertook study periods at New York University, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 and the University of Cambridge, and subsequently at Università Ca’ Foscari (Venice) and Università di Bologna. She has taken part in various R&D&i projects, has given lectures at institutions like the Centro Cultural Generación del 27, the Museo de Pontevedra and the Museo Casa Cervantes, and has published articles in magazines like Ínsula, Investigaciones Feministas and Rassegna Iberistica.

In terms of exhibitions, she curated Universo Ferrant (Museo Patio Herreriano, 2022–2023) and co-curated Vida entre amigos (Granada Provincial Council, 2022) and Mujeres de papel. Trazos de la generación del 27 (Málaga, 2017), as well as participating in the coordination of (Des)Variaciones sobre José Guerrero (University of Granada, 2014). She has received grants from the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and the Fundación Juan March, and she was the beneficiary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Her research focuses on contemporary material culture, especially twentieth-century drawing and illustration, the relationships between writing and visuality, and artistic networks.