Press release
2008 / 2008.02.08. PRESS RELEASE. Santiago Sierra conference
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SPANISH REPUBLIC’S BLACK FLAG PRESENTATION CEREMONY. PROJECT BY SANTIAGO SIERRA FOR MADRID ABIERTO 2008
Date: Martes, 12 de Febrero de 2008 Time: 19:30 h. Location: Auditorium of the Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art (Sabatini Building, entrance C/ Santa Isabel, nº 52). |
In the V edition of MADRID ABIERTO 2008, next Tuesday 12th of February Santiago Sierra’s project Spanish Republic’s black flag will be presented.
In the event, which will take place in the Reina Sofia Museum of Modern Art, will participate Jose Luis Corazon, philosopher and critic, Fabio Rodriguez de la Flor, art critic and essayist, along with Pablo España, curator of Madrid Abierto 2008 and member of Democracia.
These experts will present a Spanish republican flag embroidered in black string and cloth by artisans from Munich, project by Spanish artist Santiago Sierra, who has been selected among the 13 public interventions that are part of Madrid Abierto’s fifth edition.
The event will start off with the black flag as “anti-symbol” to create a discussion on the consequences that the II Spanish Republic’s failure has had in our contemporary historical context. These consequences will be analyzed on many levels: historical, political, philosophical and aesthetical.
Free admission. Capacity: 144 people.
For further information:
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