Museums are continually transforming, leaving aside their role as containers for works of art to become a “living, social space,” explains RTVE.es. director of the Reina Sofía National Museum, Manuel Segade. The art gallery celebrates, together with Radio3, the International Museum Day with an event full of music.
In this way, music and art come together in various spaces of the museum in the eighth edition of this festival. Although, as Segade advances, the Reina Sofía intends that, “little by little, both music and living arts in general, can gradually populate the museum.”
“I think that effectively all we have to do is continue promoting this intertwining between the various types of art. Today it is sometimes very difficult to distinguish where one artistic discipline begins and where the other ends and I think that is fundamental. In that moment of mixing and opening that dissolves the boundaries between disciplines, I believe that is where artistic practice moves and where museums have to be as well,” says the director of the contemporary art gallery.
Radio3 seeks to show “the relationship between different artistic manifestations”
For Segade, music has managed to transform the different languages in which the visual arts operate. For this reason, at the Reina Sofía, they consider it essential that both music and everything that it entails be permeated in a contemporary art museum that is dedicated to the present. Thus, Radio3 has “occupied” those spaces to also show that relationship between different artistic manifestations.
Therefore, to celebrate International Museum Day, Radio3 brings the best and newest of national music inside the museum. “This is the 8th edition of this festival. It is one more way to show Radio3’s passion for culture, not only for music, and in this case also, to desecrate some cultural spaces and institutions to attract young audiences to the station’s audience,” he says. Tomás Flores, director of Radio3 to RTVE.es.
The network wants these spaces to “become something more than their museum activity, as a meeting that fuels the conversation around art and culture, which is what Radio3 does in all its programming,” says Flores. . For the director of the museum, it is the moment in which this installation manages to “socially demonstrate that participating in it, and being part of it, is a true celebration, a party in which everyone can fit.”
Radio3 as a “catalyst to challenge the orthodoxy of museum spaces”
It is the eighth edition of this festival that is celebrated at the Reina Sofía, but, as Flores says, more and more institutions want to join this celebration. However, it is not the only event that the station has carried out to transfer culture to museums. “I think that in that we have been catalysts a little to challenge the orthodoxy of museum spaces,” adds the director of Radio3.
From the chain they carried out a project called Guernica sounds for the 80th anniversary of Picasso’s painting that “it was another heresy for many museum attendees, but it projected the idea of the museum among a young audience. For some years now we have been developing debates around the world of culture,” he explains.
Also in the Prado Museum, Maria Arnal and Marcel Bagès presented their new album with the triptych of the Garden of delights of Hieronymus Hieronymus in the background.
Silvia Perez, Izal or the Child from Elche They also performed in the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid. And from Radio3 they have carried out activities in the Bilbao Guggenheimat the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB), at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and at the Valencian Institute of Modern Art in Valencia (IVAM). “We have created a series of special programs over all these years, from Radio3 and Radio3 Extra, which have shown that (museums) are fantastic settings because they are very inspiring,” Flores concludes.
Fifty artists will perform for 17 hours
From 7 in the morning until twelve at night, the museum opens its doors to the public free of charge so they can enjoy the museum and the best live music from Radio3 with the voices of 50 artists such as María José Llergo, Mala Rodríguez, El Columpio Asesino, Ale Acosta, Los Estanques or Xoel Lópezamong others.
The objective of this party, which was attended by more than 13,000 people last year, is also to highlight the creativity of the artists who are working in our country. There is no shortage of hip hop, flamenco, alternative, electronic, hybrid music groups… Three artists will take to the stage every hour. Plaza of the Nouvel building of the Reina Sofía and from 9 p.m. the best Radio3 DJs will flood the venue with music. garden of the Sabatini building.
In this way, “the art of the muses” (music) is making more and more space within these spaces, these “sanctuaries”, transforming them, but not only that, as the director of the Reina Sofía believes: “The “Contemporary art leads us by the hand to a transformation in how we understand museums.”
