A participatory experience is based on including the viewer in the artist's incomplete work. Why incomplete? Because when the viewer participates or forms part of that work in some way and merges in communion with it, they conclude it. The work is then completed.

The Fundación Santander is currently exhibiting three pieces by Marta Minujín (Argentina, 1943). One of them is made up of several interlocking multicolored mattresses. Over the years, these soft sculptures have been exhibited on numerous occasions. Sometimes the visitor was allowed to dive into the mattresses. But in these times of "selfies", Minujín (who always includes us in her works) exhibits Conceptos Entrelazados in a vertical position and also adds mirrors so that we can form, or not, part of this optical game of colorful meanders.

Another participatory piece by Marta faces Conceptos Entrelazados. In this case, it's a cube of 3 meters long by 6 meters high which can be entered from one of its sides. Inside, the music of Philip Glass (in a loop intervened by Minujín) is associated with a film in repetition of the mattresses. Psychedelia says present again, although the artist baptized it as "transpsychedelia".

Implosión!, by Marta Minujín

Fundación Santander

Implosión! is color and movement from the very beginning. A gigantic print of the artist welcomes us at the entrance and to go inside we must walk through her mouth. Inside the fun awaits!