The Juan Gil-Albert Alicante Institute of Culture has revealed the six projects that will comprise the temporary exhibitions between 2025 and 2026 under the program 'Art in the Casa Bardin'. This contest, in its seventh edition, highlights the collaboration between Alicante authors and curators, extending the exhibition time and increasing the financial support for the selected ones, as recalled by the Culture Deputy Juan de Dios Navarro.
Among the selected proposals is the creation by Isidro Blasco designed specifically for the IAC, which establishes a dialogue between the final images and the first ones never exhibited before. Another chosen project is 'Mystery and Need' by artists Susana Guerrero and Eduardo Infante, curated by Jaime Pérez Zaragozí, which will challenge the rigidity of space and architecture through a series of artistic interventions in different formats.
Three exhibitions will take place in 2025 and another three in 2026, thus extending the exhibition period for each one. In addition to the exhibitions, parallel activities such as guided tours and meetings between curators and artists have been scheduled to analyze the creation of the projects. Additionally, the publication of a catalog in line with the editorial concept of 'Art in the Casa Bardín' will be included.
Massimo Pisani and Luisa Pastor head the list of selected proposals, presenting the exhibition 'Mystery and Need', adapting the project 'The Sphinx' to the Casa Bardín space. Another highlighted project is 'Utopian Monuments' by Elio Rodríguez, curated by Rafael Serrano, which will explore the relationship between the monumental and the organic, the real and the utopian. The jury for this edition was made up of Juan de Dios Navarro, Cristina Martínez, Estefanía Soler, Begoña Martínez Deltell, and Pablo Bellot.
Another project, 'The Line of Life' by artist Silvia Lerín, uses the line as a reflection axis, while 'The Sons of the Deer' is the title of the work by photographer Jose Luis Carrillo and curator Antonio Cervera, which will be presented for the first time in Alicante. Their project, 'Sentences and Madrigals', proposes a tension between bureaucratic rationality and sentimental polyphony through sentences and madrigals.
