Isidoro Valcárcel Medina (Murcia, 1937) is a leading figure in conceptual art in Spain. He has received the highest awards granted for his artistic work, such as the National Award for Plastic Arts in 2007 and the Velázquez Award in 2015.

The exhibition presented by IVAM in its Gallery 3 offers the opportunity to explore the artist’s most recent work. The show presents s series of 40 drawings entitled The movement of the idea, in which Valcárcel Medina investigates perceptual ambiguity and interpretative multiplicity as central themes of his approach. The images are duplicated, overlapped, and contrasted, complemented by brief texts in which the artist, with irony, points out the boundary between his intention and the viewer’s interpretation.

Alongside the exhibition, an editorial project is introduced that thoroughly documents the artist’s work from his early years in the 1960s, while also providing a critical reflection on his more recent trajectory.

The exhibition is curated by José Díaz Cuyás, Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at the University of La Laguna, Coordinator of the research group Turicom: La experiencia turística: Imagen, Cuerpo y Muerte en la cultura del ocio, and of the research project La modernidad paradójica: experiencia artística y turística en la España desarrollista (1959-1975). Since the 1980s, he has been giving lectures and publishing articles in specialized magazines.

He was the director of Acto eds; his recent publications include «Algunas ideas sueltas sobre viajes, rutas y desvíos», Muntadas. Ejercicios sobre memorias pasadas y presentes, Ateneo de Manila and CAAC of Seville, 2022; and Arte, consume y transgresión caníbal: a propósito de Yves Klein, Tennessee Williams y el cine exploitation, in Encuentros salvajes: arte, consumo y turismo caníbal, Concreta, 2022. In 2002, he curated Going and Coming by Valcárcel Medina at the Tàpies Foundation.