AUTO. SUEÑO Y MATERIA [AUTO. DREAM AND MATERIAL] is a multifaceted ambitious exhibition project featuring around one hundred works by over sixty artists. The exhibition mines the depth of influence of the automobile within contemporary art, or more precisely, the relationship between car culture and art creation in recent decades. The lead role assigned to the automobile as a mainstay of 20th century culture and as a symbol of our consumer society, encourages us to address the art-car binomial from more than a strictly aesthetic realm, instead expanding our perspective to embrace social, political and anthropological considerations. Precisely at a moment like the present, when we can already detect a feeling of closure to the era of material culture that ruled throughout the 20th century, it becomes more pressing that ever to cast a gaze backwards on that icon that transformed habits, territory and industry.

CURATOR: Alberto Martín
ASSISTANT CURATOR: Victoria del Val
EXHIBITION DESIGN: Longo + Roldán
ARTISTS (A SELECTION): Roy Arden, Eric Aupol, Hansop de Beeck, Valérie Belin, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Etienne Bossut, Edward Burtynsky, Hervé Coqueret, Stéphane Couturier, Félix Curto, Stephen Dean, Jeremy Dickinson, Juan Fernández, Juan del Junco, Panos Kokkinias, Annika Larsson, Zilla Leutenegger, Maider López, Chip Lord, Vik Muniz, Ahmet Ögüt, Sven Pahlsson, Panamarenko, Martin Parr, Betsabé Romero, Michael Samuels, Corinna Schnitt, Frank Scurti, Jim Shaw, Dirk Skreber, Amy Stein, Xavier Veilhan, Koen Wastijn, Erwin Wurm