Alistonado

About

On an artistic level, one thinks of Toledo and immediately associates it with Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque, but never, or rarely, with contemporary art. Our beloved city experienced its first approach to this in 1975 through the Museum of Contemporary Art of Toledo (MACTO). However, it ended up closing in 2001 and the city had to wait 18 years to once again include in its museum offering a space dedicated entirely to contemporary art (Roberto Polo Collection). Meanwhile, the Toledo Consortium claimed the coexistence and enrichment of artistic styles, in the same way that the three cultures coexisted in the city, inaugurating the “Space for Contemporary Art and Culture” in Cuevas de Hércules (2012) and Cámara Bufa (2015). the first of many contemporary exhibitions. Therefore, the purpose of our exhibition is to unite tradition and avant-garde, not only through the space (12th-century Gothic chapel) and the works, but also between them through a red thread that, just as it can unite people, can also unite art, thus forming an order in the exhibited works that begins from the most figurative to the most abstract, with the loom from the early 20th century being a key piece to form this artistic and allegorical tangle.