Title: Installations: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections
Location: BILBAO - Guggenheim Museum
Start Date: 2008-04-29
End Date: 2009-01-11

One of the major developments of recent art history, installation art came to prominence in the early 1990s as a mode of art production centered on the creation of an immersive physical experience. Looking back to the pioneering Happenings of the 1950s, as well as Minimalist and Post-Minimalist artists like Richard Serra, who highlighted bodily awareness through sculptural interventions, artists in the 1990s expanded the work of art into a multimedia environment.

Article translated by Amritee Mahabir

A few days ago the Guggenheim Bilbao was forced to fire their own finance director (CFO) who confessed to having embezzled half a million euros from the museum. The Guggenheim inaugurated its futuristic site in Bilbao in 1997. From then on, the museum has on average attracted a million visitors annually. Since its opening day, Roberto Cearsolo Barrenetxea was head of the finance division with high responsibility tasks in directing the museum. The decision to expel Cearsolo was reached following verifications that led them to confirm his involvement in illegally laundering a significant amount of money from the Guggenheim’s coffers.