Category: Countercultural Movement
Date: 1980s
Place: Madrid
History: 1977-1978 - The beginnings of La Movida took place during the
Spanish transition after Francisco Franco’s death and were focused
around some musical groups of la Nueva Ola Madrileña
February 9th, 1980 - La Movida started with the Concierto homenaje a
Canito, a concert in memory of José Enrique Cano Leal organized by
Onda 2
May 23rd, 1981 - The first massive countersign was El Concierto de
Primavera, a concert conceived as La Movida’s climax
1992 - La Movida officially ended with Seville’s Expo92
Details: La Movida Madrileña represented a new Spanish identity
Its characteristics were freedom of expression, transgression of the
taboos, use of recreational drugs
La Movida was not a movement per se as it never had a theoretical
manifesto - it was the coincidence of a very large group of creative
minds who wanted to manifest themselves and party in Madrid -
involving working and drinking
La Movida became the showcase of a young democracy, causing the
effervescence of the eighties and a creative and social blooming
The Cheli and Pasota dialects came out as a new spirit of freedom
La Movida extended to other cities in Spain as Barcelona, Bilbao and
Vigo
TV shows - La Bola de Cristal, La Edad de Oro, Musical Expréss,
Popgrama, Si yo fuera Presidente
Radio Shows - Radio España, Radio Popular, Radio Juventud,
Radio Centro
Fanzines (publications produced by fans) - Licantropía y Monster,
Rockocó, Mental, La Parlote, La Pluma Eléctrica, Ediciones Moulinsart,
96 Lágrimas y Du Duá, Banana Split, El Corazón del Bosque,
La Livianidad del Imperdible, Grátix
Magazines - La Luna, Madrid Me Mata, Madriz - featured the new
tendencies between 1984 and 1987
Meeting points - Rock-Ola, La Sala Carolina, El Jardín, El Sol,
El Pentagrama, El Escalón, Marquee, La Vía Láctea, Clamores,
Galileo Galilei, Kwai, El Palentino, Cascorro Factory - one of the first art
collectives, many seminal ideas for La Movida took place there
La Movida’s most important characters by discipline:
- Music - Alaska (Alaska y los Pegamoides and Alaska y Dinarama),
Mecano (Ana Torroja, Nacho Cano and José María Cano), Luz Casal,
Paco Clavel, Gabinete Caligari, Kaka de Luxe, Radio Futura,
Nacha Pop, Santiago Auserón, Alphaville, Azul y Negro, Tino Casal,
La Unión, Enrique Urquijo, Antonio Vega, Pop Decó / Paraíso,
Farenheit 451, Fabio McNamara
- Cinema - Pedro Almodóvar, Fernando Colomo, Iván Zulueta,
Fernando Trueba, Rossy de Palma
- Literature - Vicente Molina Foix, Eduardo Mendicutti,
Luis Antonio de Villena, Javier Barquín, José Tono Martínez,
Gregorio Morales
- Drawing/ Painting - Carlos Sánchez Pérez ‘Ceesepe’, Fernando Vicente,
José Alfonso Morera Ortiz ‘El Hortelano’, Costus (Enrique Naya
Igueravide and Juan José Carrero Galofré), Manolo Quejido,
Carlos Franco, Patricia Gadea and Juan Ugalde,
Guillermo Pérez Villalta, Sigfrido Martín Begué, Óscar Mariné, Juan Gatti,
Diego Lara
- Comics - Nazario Luque, Javier Mariscal, Kiko Feria, Antonio Aragüez,
Teresa Arranz, Camús, Carlos Giménez, Ana Juan, Juan Jiménez,
Ana Miralles, Rafa Negrete, Fernando Vicente
- Graffiti - Juan Carlos Argüello ‘Muelle’
- Photography - Alberto García-Alix, Miguel Trillo,
Pablo Pérez-Mínguez ‘PPM’, Ouka Leele
- Fashion - Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, Manuel Piña, Pepe Rubio,
Jesús del Pozo
- Poetry - Eduardo Haro Ibars
- Broadcasting: Jesús Ordovás, Rafael Abitol, Gonzalo Garrido, Julio Ruiz
El Papel de la Movida
Category: Art on Paper Exhibition
Date: June 22nd to September 22nd, 2013
Address: Museo ABC, Calle Amaniel 29-31
Madrid, 28015
Tel: 91 758 8379
Website: www.museoabc.es
Email: info_museo@abc.es
Organizer: Museo ABC
Details: Exhibition Subtitle - Art on paper in the Madrid of the eighties
Focused on the paper as a support of La Movida, to evidence the
culture generated during those years, and the osmosis relationship
between the disciplines
Divided into six chapters - drawings and illustration, photography,
graphic design and music, fashion, cinema, letters and press
La Movida Madrileña,