"Claudia Anselmi's exhibition Los juegos en el bosque _que el viento hable (The Games in the Forest _Let the Wind Speak) at the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (National Museum of Visual Arts, MNAV) is the artist's first solo exhibition and has been created especially for the museum's space. Under the curatorship of María E. Yuguero, Anselmi has developed an installation adapted to the specific site (a protected public domain, as is the case of museums) transforming the exhibition hall into a forest whose trees: drawn, painted, printed and etched, interact with the trees in the park surrounding the MNAV through the large window of Room 5. It is a symbolic forest that invites us to walk as it immerses us into a magical dimension, disrupting real time, and which, quoting Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset, author of reference for Anselmi in this exhibition, in his book Meditations on Quixote"--Page 86.

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