FUNCTION AND FICTION

22 SEP 

Location:

Cuatrecasas law firm. Lobby of the headquarters
Calle Almagro, 9, 28010 Madrid

Exhibition featuring a selection of works from the Bergé Collection

Curators:
Santiago Ávila Albuja and Celeste Garduño Carbajal

This exhibition is the result of collaboration between the Bergé Collection, the Cuatrecasas law firm, and the Master's Degree in Curatorial Studies at the University of Navarra Museum. 

The three entities share the goal of incorporating art into everyday, business, and professional life, as art contributes to the development of critical thinking skills, helps us reflect on the reality around us through creativity, and enriches the skills of individuals and the entire society it serves. 

This exhibition proposal has been selected from among the projects submitted by students in the fourth cohort of the Master's Degree in Curatorial Studies. In Function and Fiction, the curators, with the help of nine contemporary art pieces chosen from the Bergé Collection, populate a space socially conceived as sterile and corporate to invite us to think about the human and functional relationship we have with everyday spaces and objects, to which these pieces give new meaning.  Questioning the function of space and objects from a more personal and intimate perspective with the help of art. 

The Master's Degree in Curatorial Studies complements its solid theoretical training with a practical dimension that is closely linked to the current reality of art, marked by private and corporate collecting. This Bergé-Cuatrecasas Collection curatorial project responds to its search for professional opportunities for its students in innovative environments where curatorship adds value.

The Bergé Collection, which is collaborating with the Cuatrecasas law firm on its project to introduce contemporary art into the workplace, has sought in this call for entries, aimed exclusively at Master's students, to renew the space from the fresh, current, rigorous, and bold perspective of curators in an intense period of training. The Function and Fiction project complements the selection and proposed distribution of the pieces with a bold mediation plan that involves all the firm's employees and collaborators in the exhibition project and the reflection it provokes. 

This proposal offers employees, collaborators, clients, and visitors to the Cuatrecasas law firm a surprising experience that will not leave us indifferent.

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