Zona intrusa 19_The problem is the paint #3

Zona intrusa is an artistic and educational project, an initiative and production of M|A|C (Mataró Art Contemporani), aimed at secondary schools in Mataró, seeking to bring contemporary art closer to them with the goal of creating a critical space for knowledge and experimentation.

The project Zona intrusa 19. El problema és la pintura #3: We make noise

In this nineteenth edition of Zona intrusa, artist and professor Martí Anson concludes a cycle of three proposals that share the same starting point and that have shaped his curatorship over the last three academic years. This journey has proposed a revision of the ways of understanding artistic practice in the educational context, emphasizing processes, collective experience, and the capacity of art to question everyday elements that shape life in the classroom.

The project begins with an analysis of the school bell as a central device in the organization of time within educational centers. Understood as a regulatory tool that structures the sequences of the school day —classes, breaks, and activity changes— the bell reveals how school time is a construction that integrates political, social, and cultural dimensions. In this sense, its presence not only orders but also conditions the forms of experience and coexistence within the school.

Artists and schools

The collaborating artists and the participating schools and teachers in this edition were:

Estel Boada

Neus Masdeu

Quim Packard

Rodrigo Laviña

Escola Freta | Gemma Sanz

Escola Pia Santa Anna | Cristina Ibáñez-Tarter

Institut Alexandre Satorras | Aleix Marbán y Tirso Orive

Institut Escola Àngela Bransuela | Núria Hurtado

Institut Josep Puig i Cadafalch | Rosabel Aldabo

Institut Laia l’Arquera | Judit Garí

Institut Les Cinc Sénies | Josep Iglesias

Institut Miquel Biada | Mireia Ibáñez

All this experience has been transferred into an exhibition in room 4 of M|A|C Presó, in a joint proposal for the spatial design conceived by Martí Anson and the students, and the entire process has been documented by filmmaker Carlos Essmann.