Angel Borrego Cubero takes part at the exhibition “EXPORT. Spanish Architecture Abroad” to be held between February 23rd and May 17th at the Museum ICO (Zorrilla 3, Madrid). The exhibition is curated by Edgar González and is accompanied with a catalogue.
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Factoria Cultural, a nominee at the European Architecture Prize Mies van der Rohe
The Cultural Factory Matadero Madrid, whose design and construction have been achieved by Angel Borrego Cubero along with his Office for Strategic Spaces, was nominated to the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe 2015.
Key speaker at Master in Architectural Advanced Projects
On September 30th, 2014, at 10.30 AM, Angel Borrego Cubero’s lecture “External Affairs” will open the 6th edition of the Master in Architectural Advanced Projects at the School of Architecture ETSAM, Madrid.
Angel Borrego Cubero, Director of workshop at TEC Monterrey
Next week (September 22nd – 26th 2014) we are going to take part at the Innovative Week of the TEC Monterrey – Campus Guadalajara, in Mexico. Angel Borrego Cubero will lead the Taller Vertical “@Campus2030” organized by the School of Architecture. On this occasion there will be a private screening of “The Competition” addressed to the TEC’s students.
The Competition won the First Prize at Madrid Architects’ Association Awards
Angel Borrego Cubero was awarded the 1st Prize COAM’14 (Madrid Architects Association) for the documentary “The Competition”: “(..) The great interest of this documentary work lies not only in the fact it gives information about the procedures and tools of architecture competitions, but it also builds a complex, and uncomfortable, cinematic story that encourages reflection and discussion, on the real interest of the architecture “star-system”, as well as the suitability of this type of competition to satisfy the real needs of society (Emilio Tuñón, Jury report of the COAM’14 Awards)
Angel Borrego for New York Times
New York Times, July 28th: “For New York Architecture, What’s Local Is Global” is Angel Borrego Cubero’s intervention in Room for Debate. Read it here.
Lay out for exhibition at the MUSAC
On June 21st 2014, it in León at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Castille and Leon (MUSAC) will open the exhibition “Apocryphal Colony. Images of Coloniality in Spain”. The exhibition is curated by Juan Guardiola and designed by Angel Borrego Cubero (Office for Strategic Spaces). In 2006, Guardiola as a curator and Borrego Cubero as a designer, already collaborated for the ground breaking exhibition “Filipiniana” held at the Center Conde Duque in Madrid.
“Apocryphal Colony. Images of Coloniality in Spain” is a group exhibition inviting us to examine, analyse and rethink the different images that Hispanic (post)colonialism has generated from the 15th century to the present, featuring over 350 works by 120 Spanish and international artists, both contemporary and historical. The exhibition questions the visual meaning of images, and reflects, specifically, on how colonial images are constructed, disseminated and interpreted. Colonialism, in simple terms, is a political, economic and cultural system designed to enable one territory to profit from another. Even if the occupation is purely military at first, the exploitation extends to many other spheres as time goes by. In other words, colonialism uses social sciences such as history, scientific disciplines such as anthropology, religious dogmas such as the gospel, or even artistic styles such as orientalism, to legitimise its discourse of domination. Starting from these concepts, “Apocryphal Colony” is presented as a space for rethinking the processes and cultural practices of the Hispanic colonial imaginary in the symbolic space of territory” (www.musac.es)
Curatorship: Juan Guardiola; Coordination: Koré Escobar, Carlos Ordás; Documentation: Araceli Corbo, Ana Madrid; Design: Ángel Borrego Cubero
Exhibition at Artport Tel Aviv
Angel Borrego Cubero, has been developing an art residency at Artport Tel Aviv the results of which are shown within the exhibition “Living as Form”, open from 26 december 2013 through March 2014. “Living as Form” (The Nomadic Version) is the expanding, traveling version of Creative Time’s landmark 2011 exhibition. In Tel Aviv, “Living as Form” focuses on the Bat Yam neighborhood, curated by Vardit Gross, Sigal Barnir and Yael Moria. Originally organized by Creative Time Chief Curator Nato Thompson, “Living as Form” provides a broad, international look at socially engaged practices.
Exhibiting at LABoral Gijón
Exhibition “Learning from the Cuencas”, 27.09.2013 – 23.02.2014 at theLABoral in Gijón: Office for Strategic Spaces takes part with the project : “ADMINISTRATIVE LANDSCAPE. Form Follows Norm” (Manifesto + video installation). Curators: Nacho Ruiz Allén & Sara López Arraiza (zon-e arquitectos); Artists: Óscar de Ávila, Basurama, Edu Comelles, Cómo crear historias, Antonio Corral Fernández, Bárbara Fluxá, Fran Meana, Marcos Martínez Merino, Mind Revolution, Office for Strategic Spaces (OSS), Recetas Urbanas, Daniel Romero.
Photos: OSS, Marcos Morilla
“The Competition” to open the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 13
`The Competition´, a documentary movie, directed by Angel Borrego Cubero and produced by OSS, has been selected to open the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam 2013 (AFFR), being this its World Première. The opening night, attended by Borrego Cubero, is on the 10th of October at a special venue on Fenixloods 1, Katendrecht while the Festival is held between 10 – 13th of October 2013 at the cinemas of the Lantaren Venster. The access to the Festival is on a ticket basis, available from 30 of September.
Find out all details on the Festival website: http://goo.gl/HX8byh http://affr.nl/
