El Museo Sobrino trae a Guadalajara las mejores obras de videoarte del Festival CUVO

El Museo Francisco Sobrino will host CUVO, Festival of video art between the 6th and April 20, 2018, thanks to the collaboration between research and art and the Municipal Cultural Board.

8 selected videos from an international Convocation in which participated more than 150 artists from 42 different countries and has had vertebral theme will be exhibited for two weeks the ' mythologies the ment '. Two antagonistic concepts from which to analyze problems, both social and narrative, from the audiovisual sector and through.

CUVO

is a travelling festival with a long history which has been expanded over the years. He was born a decade collecting video art pieces until it was decided to open this type of art to other locations and public spaces with the idea to disclose something that it was targeting only the capital. Cities such as Cazorla, Arevalo and Úbeda will see these pieces of video art, but emphasizes its passage through the franked Festival which installed an ephemeral Museum in central Madrid plaza de Callao, coinciding with ARCO , CUVO event being the only public art such as designated dates for contemporary art.

Away from being a "conceptual festival", or accessible only to a few, CUVO arrives in Guadalajara to explain and convince the virtues that has the art of images in movement. With the certainty of being the language more current and most projection in the future; Despite recognizing that video art is still being held in exclusive circuits, either in difficult to access social networks, or in specialized chambers of the big cities, which is precisely what tries to demystify CUVO.

Will be the works of the following artista:

Anja Høvik Strømsted

and Jasmin Hurst (Norway)
APOTROPIA (Italy)
BadBad MeowMeow (Taiwan)
Baron Lanteigne (Canada)
Chris Oakley (England)
Fernanda Bertero (Ecuador)
Fernando Epelde and Ai da Gómez (Spain)
Ruperto Cabrera (Spain)

CUVO will take place in Guadalajara in two spaces: Museum Francisco Sobrino and room skylight of the Teatro Auditorio Buero Vallejo. In the first the opening of the exhibition will take place on April 6 at 18:30 h. and it will be accessible to the general public during regular Museum hours until day 20. The second headquarters will be used for the realization of didactic projections agreed with educational centres, which will be aimed at students of second cycle of ESO and Bachillerato.