Recuperación y resignificación del Barroco histórico en exposiciones de arte contemporáneo

Abstract

In order to understand how the interest in Baroque art is manifested in the Spanish curatorial discourses, this article analyses three exhibitions held within the first decade of the twenty-first century for the purpose of demonstrating the relationship between contemporary art and the historical Baroque. The chosen case studies are Barrocos y Neobarrocos, The Potosi Principle and El d_efecto barroco. This article covers the discursive strategies followed by these curatorial projects in their attempt to re-signify and recover Baroque art from a modern point of view. On the one hand, they show how the Baroque has become a means for the construction of identities, through themes such as the relationship between Spain and Latin America or the use of images as an instrument of propaganda. On the other hand, the exhibitions have introduced the Neo-Baroque as a response to postmodernism in the Spanish exhibition context.