‘Otras Liturgias’ is an exhibition curated by Susana Blas Brunel at the Museum of Navarra, inaugurated on September 29, 2023 until May 19, 2024.
This exhibition features 5 artworks from ‘Heiress of Dust’ which inhabit the same space with pre-Romanesque pieces from the heritage of Navarra, which converge in the most interesting ways.
This exhibition is a complex, deep and very personal project. The curator accepted the challenge proposed by the Museum to delve into their motto that “all art is contemporary.”
Interested in spirituality, the participating artists dialogue with this rich cultural heritage after having delved into its collections and having chosen, accompanied by Blas, a series of pieces from the past that connect in one way or another with their current works.
Susana Blas proposes an exhibition that highlights the historical connection of experimental art and the avant-garde with spirituality, showing that the 21st century continues to practice, although through other practices, ancestral rites.
The final result is expressed in 35 “dialogue-installations” distributed throughout the 4 floors of the Museum that combine contemporary artworks with historical pieces, creating dialogues between concepts such as art, rituals, healing and spirituality. The purpose of these conversations is the construction of unexpected values that provide knowledge, beauty, healing or reflection.
The themes explored recurrently in the works have been synthesized into six main areas: Nature and Spiritual Path, Ancestral Rituals, Thealogy and Feminine Magic, Channeled Drawing, Healing, and Finitude and Transit, with the same installation often participating in more than one area. In reality, the visit is offered as an itinerary open to infinite poetic correspondences between the pieces.
There are many questions that arise throughout the journey of this exhibition. Does all art, made today or centuries ago, if observed from the present moment, become contemporary? Can the artistic experience heal? Are there artists who, along with their creative work, carry out tasks of therapeutic accompaniment and impart spiritual practices? Could this way of experiencing art, in dialogue with care and healing, be an opportunity to renew the meaning of creation in the 21st century?
The historical pieces come from the Museum of Navarra, the Julio Caro Baroja Ethnological Museum of Navarra (18 pieces) and the Archeology Funds of the Government of Navarra (two pieces). As far as the Museum is concerned, in some cases the contemporary works are inserted in the permanent exhibition in conversation with the historical ones in their usual location; and in others they have changed location or have been moved from warehouses to rooms.
The museum project is the work of architect Ana García Díez, who has devised a harmonious assembly with the solemn rooms of the Museum marked by a system of totems that offer information related to each installation. The image of Other Liturgies, as a logo, is an organic symbol, a hybrid between a star and a flower, which colors its petals according to the themes and area it addresses.
Furthermore, the Museum has just published the exhibition catalogue, which includes the 35 installations-dialogues along with texts by Susana Blas, the historian Ricardo Recuero and the artists themselves. The museum project is also offered, the collection of poems by Itziar Ancín, which translates into verse the emotions that the exhibition has inspired in the Navarrese poet, as well as QR access to the performance of Lolo and Sosaku, considered by the curator to be the soundtrack of the project. Its circulation is 600 copies and can be purchased at the Museum of Navarra and at the Publications Fund of the Government of Navarra (Calle Navas de Tolosa, 21, Pamplona).
Otras Liturgias – Exhibition at Museo de Navarra
‘Otras Liturgias’ is an exhibition curated by Susana Blas Brunel at the Museum of Navarra, inaugurated on September 29, 2023 until May 19, 2024.
This exhibition features 5 artworks from ‘Heiress of Dust’ which inhabit the same space with pre-Romanesque pieces from the heritage of Navarra, which converge in the most interesting ways.
This exhibition is a complex, deep and very personal project. The curator accepted the challenge proposed by the Museum to delve into their motto that “all art is contemporary.”
Interested in spirituality, the participating artists dialogue with this rich cultural heritage after having delved into its collections and having chosen, accompanied by Blas, a series of pieces from the past that connect in one way or another with their current works.
Susana Blas proposes an exhibition that highlights the historical connection of experimental art and the avant-garde with spirituality, showing that the 21st century continues to practice, although through other practices, ancestral rites.
The final result is expressed in 35 “dialogue-installations” distributed throughout the 4 floors of the Museum that combine contemporary artworks with historical pieces, creating dialogues between concepts such as art, rituals, healing and spirituality. The purpose of these conversations is the construction of unexpected values that provide knowledge, beauty, healing or reflection.
The themes explored recurrently in the works have been synthesized into six main areas: Nature and Spiritual Path, Ancestral Rituals, Thealogy and Feminine Magic, Channeled Drawing, Healing, and Finitude and Transit, with the same installation often participating in more than one area. In reality, the visit is offered as an itinerary open to infinite poetic correspondences between the pieces.
There are many questions that arise throughout the journey of this exhibition. Does all art, made today or centuries ago, if observed from the present moment, become contemporary? Can the artistic experience heal? Are there artists who, along with their creative work, carry out tasks of therapeutic accompaniment and impart spiritual practices? Could this way of experiencing art, in dialogue with care and healing, be an opportunity to renew the meaning of creation in the 21st century?
The historical pieces come from the Museum of Navarra, the Julio Caro Baroja Ethnological Museum of Navarra (18 pieces) and the Archeology Funds of the Government of Navarra (two pieces). As far as the Museum is concerned, in some cases the contemporary works are inserted in the permanent exhibition in conversation with the historical ones in their usual location; and in others they have changed location or have been moved from warehouses to rooms.
The museum project is the work of architect Ana García Díez, who has devised a harmonious assembly with the solemn rooms of the Museum marked by a system of totems that offer information related to each installation. The image of Other Liturgies, as a logo, is an organic symbol, a hybrid between a star and a flower, which colors its petals according to the themes and area it addresses.
Furthermore, the Museum has just published the exhibition catalogue, which includes the 35 installations-dialogues along with texts by Susana Blas, the historian Ricardo Recuero and the artists themselves. The museum project is also offered, the collection of poems by Itziar Ancín, which translates into verse the emotions that the exhibition has inspired in the Navarrese poet, as well as QR access to the performance of Lolo and Sosaku, considered by the curator to be the soundtrack of the project. Its circulation is 600 copies and can be purchased at the Museum of Navarra and at the Publications Fund of the Government of Navarra (Calle Navas de Tolosa, 21, Pamplona).
Texts translated from Hoy es arte