The art of the present. Helga de Alvear Collection

J. L. Gamallo. Although we are in Madrid at the height of heat, why not cease the activity in all areas, and is still interesting exhibitions in museums and cultural centers in Madrid. The Palacio de Cibeles, or CentroCentro as the name he has given the municipal authority, is one of the flagships of the culture belonging to our City, its magnitude enables simultaneous multiple exposures. If one is interested in the latest trends in art, now you can enjoy "The art of the present. Helga de Alvear Collection". Helga de Alvear gallery is well known in artistic circles of the capital. Although born in Germany, since 1957 lives in Spain, married in 1959 with Jaime de Alvear. His relationship with art began in 1980 when he went to work at Juana Mordo gallery, which takes over in 1984 to the death of that. In 1995, open a gallery with your name in Doctor Forquet, near the Centro Reina Sofia. Alongside his gallerist activity combines the collector, gathering a huge collection of over 2,500 Spanish and foreign artists. So at the Palacio de Cibeles is possible to know a selection of works that treasures (103 pieces), and which represent a very representative sample of the art of today. As the playbill "The collections represent the most to the people who have formed. Collection of Helga de Alvear speaks of his personality and of his experiences, but above all that shows is your path approach to contemporary art". What is it that you can see in the exhibition? A varied selection of works by artists of various persuasions, ages, styles, expressed through media and technological support very different: painting, sculpture, photography, prints, videos, etc..The list of artists is big, so you can mention Helena Almeida, Matthew Barney, Angela de la Cruz, Louise Bourgeois, Jean-Marc Bustamante, José Pedro Croft, Olafur Eliasson, Andreas Gursky, Ernesto Neto, Santiago Sierra, Isaac Julien , Juan Muñoz, Jeff Wall, Thomas Ruff, and Ai Weiwei, among others. Of course there is nothing to be, say conventional is a very conceptual art and difficult, often chromatic or difuminaciones explosions, some quite spectacular installations and video installations. with a profusion of neon signs, like most striking part of the exhibition, My Madinah by Jason Rhodes, which seems like a tent Saharan Africa, with a profuse ornamentation of neon signs and orange wires.Opposite is a sculpture of various geometric shapes Briton Richard Deacon in ash wood and aluminum, called UW84DC 15, his name being an important part of prayer. Another installation is curious African artist Barthélémy Toguo, Path of Exile, where a boat crammed with cushions, sails in a sea of ​​bottles of vodka. You can also highlight Chinese video installation Weiwei, 258 Fakes, where through 12 screens are shown images of their exposures and how they work. A curious plant, which would be considered an "sculpture" is a stacked set of running shoes, which I found a little teasing, and I decided to ignore the artist's name. Interestingly, a sculpture of Ernesto Nieto, difficult or identification assumption, that looks like a prehistoric bird of a contraption designed by Leonardo da Vinci, and another of Juan Muñoz, where two male figures are astonished look in a mirror, integrated into the spectrum of the exhibition, visitors like two more, assuming the loneliness of modern man. From Ugo de Rondino is a huge tree, white, as if fossilized, A Day Like This. Made of Nothing and Nothing Else, the first thing you see when you enter the CentroCentro, then crown the stairs to the main lobby.. Photography is responsible for displaying reality in its various perspectives, while painting is profoundly abstract, chromatic labyrinths and different textures.