INDOC. Documentation Centre about Art and Nature

 Image by courtesy of Fernando Navajas.

CDAN celebrates
fifth anniversary

The CDAN celebrated its fifth birthday on 27 January 2011 with a series of activities for visitors, meetings with the press, and radio and television programmes broadcast from the centre.

The CDAN has sought to showcase different ways of seeing nature and landscape in the context of contemporary art, as well as supporting art education, training, and specialised research. [+]

Museums in the
21st Century

Stonehenge Visitor Centre

The large number of visits the megalithic monument receives every day has highlighted the need to take action to upgrade and enhance this unique heritage site and the surrounding landscape. [+]

Brief news items and calls

Botánica: After Humboldt – upcoming exhibition at the CDAN

Botánica: After Humboldt, which opens at the CDAN on 11 March, features the work of six acclaimed contemporary artists whose peculiar botanical studies recover a direct form of beauty and reconstruct other imagined possibilities. Intelligence, irony, beauty and opportunity unite them in a chapter to which we could apply the subtitle ‘After Humboldt’. The show is curated by Rosa Olivares and will run until 22 May. [+]

Photograph by courtesy of Rafael Navarro.
Testigos # 2, 2010.

Still from the work Point no point, by Jennifer Campbell, Landscape Moments 2010.

Fifth edition of Landscape Moments competition

The CDAN has opened its fifth annual competition for audiovisual works, organised in collaboration with Huesca’s Fundación Festival de Cine. A maximum of 10 projects will be selected with the aim of promoting the idea of landscape and audiovisual creation. The closing date for submissions is 1 July.  [+]

2nd landscape photography workshop with Bernard Plossu

This year the CDAN will offer the second edition of a workshop on landscape photography led by Bernard Plossu. The workshop will be held from 15 to 17 April in Alquézar and Sierra de Guara (Huesca). The French photographer is regarded as one of the great travelling artists of our times. The 30 places available will be filled strictly based on order of enrolment. [+]

Bernard Plossu at the workshop held in 2008.

iD#6 – Art interventions
in public space

Within the framework of the project Ceci n’est pas une voiture: Nomadic Devices Loom around the Museum, a call has been issued inviting proposals for two projects involving intervention in the public space of Mataró and Vic. The deadline for submissions is 12 March. [+]