Museo Vostell Malpartida, Spain
The German artist Wolf Vostell (1932-1998) is a fundamental figure of contemporary art from the second half of the 20th century. He was the discoverer of the ‘Décollage’ concept as an artistic tool, father of the Happening in Europe, pioneer of video art and initiator of the Fluxus Movement.
Vostell, linked to Extremadura since 1958 after marrying Mercedes filed Cacereña, met in 1974 the Paraje Natural Los Barruecos.
This space combines the beauty of an incomparable natural landscape, town of granite boulders and numerous lagoons, with the emphatic presence of the complex of buildings of the wool laundry there since the mid-18th century. The encounter of this artist with this unexpected situation, resulted the implementation underway of a unique and innovative Museum, as an expression of avant-garde art; a meeting place for art and life.
Museo Vostell Malpartida offers visitors three collections of contemporary art: collection Wolf and Mercedes Vostell, Fluxus-donation collection Gino Di Maggio and collection of conceptual artists.
n addition to the showrooms, you can also visit the Centre of interpretation of the livestock routes and history of the laundry wool. The Museum extends the landscape of los Barruecos with two esculturas-ambientes installed both among the rocks: ‘travel V.O.A.E.X. (h) ormigón by high Extremadura’ (1976), that gave start Museo Vostell Malpartida activity, and ‘The dead who is thirsty’ (1978).
Currently, he composes as one of the most important European museums of art and has become Tribune forced within the national and international art scene.
