Genealogías feministas en el arte español

Genealogías feministas en el arte español: 1960-2010 was an exhibition at the Museum MUSAC in León, Spain in 2012. It was developed by two curators, that are academic university teachers and researchers Patricia Mayayo and Juan Vicente Aliaga. This exhibition originated from extended research ended in a publication with the same title, in which the first specialists on the theme collaborated.
Exhibition
The exhibition Genealogías feministas, as well as the publication, are a unique research in Spain in the artistic Spanish field. Both the exhibition and the book are a platform that deal with the main themes of feminism. The history from the 1960s until 2010. The main art historians contribute with their texts, to give them the support in history. It covers from those artists working under Franco's dictatorship, how their work survived under such repression, another recurrent subject was the identity, gender, the role the women in the XX century, until the feminist revolution.
Throughout the duration of the exhibition, talks, seminars, conferences about the subject were programmed.
Participants
The participants cover a wide spectrum in terms of ages and artistic languages, but mainly those artists, male and female, that through their subject and their way of expression, end up into a feminism point that fight to represent the sexual individual orientation and the diversity of gender.
The main artists in the Spanish panorama were showing their work in all the museum rooms, from one end of the building to the other. From the realism from the 60s, until the conceptual artists from the XXI century. From Esther Ferrer, to Carmen Calvo, Paz Muro, Carlos Pazos, Miguel Benlloch, Mari Chordá, Isabel Villar, Eulalia Valdosera, Cristina Lucas, Ana Navarrete, Juan Hidalgo, Mau Monleón, Alicia Framis, Paloma Navares, Marina Nuñez among others.

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