Title: 50 años MAC
Description: An historic half-century full of memories, histories, exhibitions, and activities of the Museum through articles, photography, and unpublished documents, that is the result of the cultural activity, the contemporary artistic practices, thematic reflection, and historic research of the MAC's documental archive. Comprises six inserts, three of them triptychs that summarize information with a chronologic design, and the other three are booklets that support inner texts with referential images. For other part, the book "Curadurías: Visiones Contemporáneas" is accompanied by a series of 21 stickers made by recognized graffiti artists that were invited to create designs in the frame of the celebration. This publication also contains 4 curatorial essays written by Caridad Botella, Santiago Rodríguez, Luz Adriana Hoyos, and Gustavo Ortiz about different readings of the MAC's collection. The book is compliments by the chapters "Aproximaciones e inclusiones curatoriales" (Curatorial Inclusions and Approaches,) curatorial works done the last three years in the MAC, and "Nuevas Donaciones" (New Donations,) which reviews 24 of the last artworks donated to the collection by national and international important artists. Also, the chapter stands out the proportional on-scale signs with characters of different audiences that visit the museum. Some artworks of the collection have QR codes to see giga-pixeled artworks in the Google Art Project platform.
Subjects: History, Catalogs, Colombian Art, Art museums, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Bogotá, Colombia), Pictorial works, Exhibitions
Places: Colombia, Bogotá
Time periods: 21st century, 20th century