“Trial Balloons”
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC)
As its three curators (Yuko Hasegawa, Agustín Pérez Rubio, and Octavio Zaya) repeat tirelessly in the texts that introduce the show, the intention of “Globos Sonda” (Trial Balloons) was to offer a global perspective on international art. On young international art, that is, given the age of most of the creators presented and despite all the doubts that the term “international art” entails. The curators themselves add that, as a result of this, the exhibition had to be heterogeneous and slippery, imbued with an eclecticism inseparable from the ambition to reflect such a broad terrain. Or perhaps