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Modern art gallery in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
The
Atlantic Center for Modern Art
(Spanish:
Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno (CAAM)
) is a contemporary art museum in the
Canary Islands
, Spain. It is in Vegueta in
Las Palmas
, the capital city of
Gran Canaria
.
The building was designed by the architect
Francisco Javier Saenz de Oiza
, retaining the
facade
of two older
neoclassical
houses.
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It was opened on 4 December 1989, initially to house the collections of Canarian art of the island council, the
Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria
.
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Collection
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Visitors at a CAAM exhibition of works by
Ron Gorchov
Juan Hidalgo in 2011
CAAM has a permanent collection of over 2600 works, many of them from the Americas, Africa and Europe, reflecting the influence of the culture of three continents on the Canarian archipelago.
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The museum promotes this theme of "tricontinentality" - the dialogue between the European, African and American continents - as an approach for appreciating Canarian works of art.
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It has a noted collection of Canarian art, particularly works by artists from the
Grupo El Paso
[
es
]
and the
Informalist movement
such as
Manolo Millares
,
Martin Chirino
, and
Pablo Serrano
. Works from the 1980s and 1990s by Spanish artists such as
Jose Maria Sicilia
,
Cristina Iglesias
and
Luis Gordillo
also feature in the collection, along with works by
Andreas Schulze
and
Jiri Georg Dokoupil
.
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CAAM is a popular visitor attraction in Las Palmas.
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