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Experience Pablo Milicua's "Milicua Museum" Exhibition: A Unique Installation at Lázaro Galdiano Museum

Delve into Pablo Milicua's immersive "museum within a museum" installation, a collage exploring identity.

Pablo Milicua's "Milicua Museum" at Lázaro Galdiano Museum invites visitors to explore a unique large-scale installation. This captivating exhibition is a dense collage of personal souvenirs, original artworks, and carefully chosen found objects, creating a compelling narrative. It offers insights into themes of artistic identity, collecting, and the re-signification of everyday items through assemblage art.

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Exhibition summary

Pablo Milicua presents 'Milicua Museum,' a large-scale installation that functions as a 'museum within a museum.' The exhibition is a collage of souvenirs, the artist's own works, and found objects, creating a narrative landscape filled with references and interpretations. It explores themes of collecting, personal identity, and the re-signification of objects through artistic assemblage.

Curatorial context

The exhibition 'Milicua Museum' by Pablo Milicua (Bilbao, 1960) is conceived as a grand installation that functions as a 'museum within a museum.' It is characterized by a dense collage of souvenirs, the artist's own creations, and curated objects, forming a narrative landscape rich in references and interpretations. Milicua describes his work as an anachronistic, timeless portrait of a creative territory built from pieces with their own identity and history, creating an ephemeral museum that objectifies half a century of life. The central piece, 'El Mar Interior,' is an accumulation of fragments chosen for their personal resonance, arranged in a larger structure through assembly and collage techniques. Milicua, influenced by Dalí's surrealism, pop art, neo-expressionism, and comics, explores themes of artistic identity through the lens of collecting, juxtaposing high art with popular culture, the grotesque, and the kitsch. The exhibition aims to convey the magic of the object and evoke a sense of wonder, mirroring the spirit of collector-museums like the Lázaro Galdiano itself, though Milicua's approach recontextualizes post-industrial pop elements within a surrealist artistic discourse.

Admission and ticket notes

Admission to the exhibition is free. Information and tickets for a related workshop, 'Souvenirs de ti mismo,' are available separately.

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Venue
Museo Lázaro Galdiano
Current status
Completed
Exhibition schedule
Nov 20, 2024 – Jan 19, 2025
Artist line / attribution
Pablo Milicua (Bilbao, 1960) is the artist behind the 'Milicua Museum' installation, which draws from his early work with the Grupo Barroco Psicodélico and his later objectual and sculptural pieces.
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