Cildo Meireles

Through September 29, 2013, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Porto's Fundaçao Serralves, and Milan's Hangar Bicocca, will present a traveling exhibition of works by Cildo Meireles at the Palacio de Velázquez in Parque del Retiro.

Curated by João Fernandes. Under-director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the exhibition includes some of the most relevant installations in Meireles' career, several never before seen in Spain, such as Olvido, Entrevendo, or the action Elemento desaparecendo / elemento desaparecido, and others of more recent creation, such as Amerikka, a carpet using some 20,000 wooden eggs under a roof made of some 50,000 bullets through which the artist criticizes the US's National Rifle Association's attitudes toward private ownership of firearms.

Politics are an essential element in Meireles' work; not to be missed at Palacio de Velázquez is his series of Coca-Cola bottles bearing the inscription "Yankees Go Home", which he used to unveil the mechanisms governing the current economic and commercial system.

In October, this show will travel to the Fundaçao Serralves in Porto, and next Spring it will be at Hangar Bicocca in Milan.