El “factor grotesco” del Museo Picasso de Málaga, análisis de una exposición: de la domus aurea a las miradas indiscretas del Siglo XIX

Antonio Rafael  Fernández Paradas

doi:10.58479/almanaque.2024.120

Authors

Antonio Rafael Fernández Paradas University of Granada (Spain)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.58479/almanaque.2024.120

Keywords:

history, art history, criticism, didactics, didactics of Social Sciences.

Abstract

The grotesque factor was a major exhibition held at the Picasso Museum in Malaga, which sought to update the aesthetic category of the grotesque. It was a profound revision of the consideration of grotesque art in the last 500 years. Such a deployment of means, logistics and work had a negative point: disinformation. Throughout the entire exhibition, practically all the information related to the works was reduced to posters with basic information. The exhibition was complex and extensive, but the visitor was in a sea of doubts, which in the end could not be answered. In a second opportunity, the visitor or the student turns to the catalog to delve deeper into the "grotesque" of each of the works, but in the consultation of the catalog there is not a single catalog card developed on each of the works, that is, there is no express justification of the application of the category of the grotesque that justifies the inclusion of the works in the catalog. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the intellectual, iconographic and museographic construction of the exhibition The Grotesque Factor.

Author Biography

Antonio Rafael Fernández Paradas, University of Granada (Spain)

Antonio Rafael Fernández Paradas holds a PhD in Art History from the University of Málaga, with a doctoral thesis entitled Historiografia y metodologías de la Historia del mueble en España (1872-2011). A state of the question and a degree in Documentation from the University of Granada. He is Assistant Professor at the University of Malaga. Master in Appraisal and Valuation of Antiquities and works of art by the University of Alcalá de Henares. He has worked in several museums (Thyssen Museum and Carmen Thyssen Museum) and art auction houses (Durán and Lamas Bolaño). Specialist in Decorative Arts, his lines of research deal with religious iconography, the circle of sculptors from Antequera, history and historiography of Spanish furniture, as well as ceramics, ivories, issues related to the art market and educational innovation applied to the teaching of Art History and Cultural Heritage. He is a member of various research groups, such as the research group of the Junta de Andalucía HUM-283, entitled “TIEDPAAN-MÁLALAGA PROTECTION AND CULTURAL HERITAGE PPC”, or the Educational Innovation project of the University of Malaga PIE 13-102, (2012-2015), Generation of content and procedural methods applied to teaching and university educational innovation: The archive as a basis for historical-artistic research, digital culture and NTIC's, and has conducted research stays in centers such as the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo. Among his publications on teaching innovation stand out:

Fernández Paradas, Antonio Rafael and Sánchez López, Juan Antonio (2014), “Redes Sociales, docencia universitaria y escultura barroca española. Reflections and possibilities from the context of innovation”, Revista Historia y Comunicación Social, 19, pp. 713-723.

Fernández Paradas, Antonio Rafael and Sánchez López, Juan Antonio (coords.), (2015), Materiales docentes para el estudio y didáctica de la escultura barroca española en contextos de aprendizaje colaborativos y 2.0, Málaga, Fundación Universitaria Andaluza Inca Garcilaso, pp. 1-241.

Fernández Paradas, Antonio Rafael and Sánchez López, Juan Antonio (2015), “La enseñanza-aprendizaje de la escultura barroca y las posibilidades del taller de imaginería como espacio dinamizador para las nuevas estrategias de innovación educativa”, in Del individuo al aprendizaje colaborativo (I). La Historia y la Historia del Arte ante los retos de la innovación educativa, Antequera, ExLibric, pp. 103-134.

Fernández Paradas, Antonio Rafael and Sánchez López, Juan Antonio (2015), “La innovación en el contexto de las humanidades y la Didáctica de las Ciencias Sociales”, in J.A. Sánchez López and A. R. Fernández Paradas (coords.), Del individuo al aprendizaje colaborativo (II). La historia y la historia del arte frente a las salidas profesionales del mundo laboral, el contexto educativo y la gestión de la información, Antequera, Exlibric, pp. 13-20.

Sánchez López, J. A. and Fernández Paradas, Antonio Rafael (coords.) (2015), Del individuo al aprendizaje colaborativo (I). La historia y la historia del arte ante los retos de la innovación educativa, Antequera, ExLibric, pp. 157-166.

Sánchez López, Juan Antonio and Fernández Paradas, Antonio Rafael (coords.) (2015), Del individuo al aprendizaje colaborativo (II). La historia y la historia del arte ante los retos de la innovación educativa, Antequera, ExLibric, pp. 157-166.

Fernández Paradas, Antonio Rafael (2016) “La Casa del Luthier: Un Modelo de educación gremial en época moderna. Some considerations about “El Violín Rojo”, in VV.AA., Docencia y cine, Colección La Sétima Arte (in press).

Fernández Paradas, Antonio Rafael and Fernández Paradas, Mercedes (2017): Didactics of Social Sciences in the face of the need for new narratives in the 20th century. Digitality, new technologies and digital competencies, Granada, Comares.