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Huáng Yong Ping (born in 1954) is a French contemporary artist and one of the most famous Chinese avant-garde artists. Born in Xiamen, he was recognized as the most controversial and provocative artist of the Chinese art scene in the 1980s. Huang was one of the earliest contemporary Chinese artists to consider art as strategy. As a self-taught student, some of his earliest artistic inspirations came from Joseph Beuys, John Cage, and Marcel Duchamp. He later graduated from art school in Hangzhou in 1982, and formed Xiamen Dada in 1986 as a postmodernist, radical avant-garde group. However, their works were often perceived as modern. The group publicly burned their works in protest, and Huang stated, "Artwork to artist is like opium to men. Until art is destroyed, life is never peaceful." The group subsequently stopped exhibiting in any further public showings. His work creates tensions and offers an alternative to the Eurocentric ideology through the use of material and metaphors which, like he himself, are foreign to the Western public. Furthermore, his many allusions illustrate his modus operandi on a large scale when it comes to overcoming the concerns of contemporary society: offering the public the possibility of a face to face encounter with the dynamics of our world by way of his site-specific facilities. Hammam represents the artist’s vision of a traditional Andalusian public bath. For this project Huang Yong Ping worked with the idea of the continuous interaction of factors which are opposing but at the same time complimentary. In this way he transformed a military barracks into a hamman, which results in the reutilisation of the space for another type of function and plays with our idea of the reality which surrounds us, allowing us to see the possibility of renovating settings, transforming them in new universes. Constructed at three metres below ground level we enter a new world, in a place which challenges and opposes the rationalistic, cold reality of a barracks. With the work "Hammam" the artist wished to highlight the oppressed memory of Andalusia, its historic past, its legacy. The Fundación NMAC (the Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo) is a unique space in Spain which explores the space shared by contemporary art and nature. The objective of the NMAC Foundation is to invite international artists to carry out specific artistic projects that are in tune with the landscape. NMAC is a cultural reference in southern Europe also for its educational and cultural programming.

Pilar Albarracín was born in Sevilla, Spain on September 27, 1968. In 1993, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Seville. After earning her degree, Pilar moved to Ireland and steadily worked there for some time. When her work started becoming "more serious," she moved back to her home town to pursue an artistic career based on the social condition of the Andalusian identity. Pilar strived to create work based on the role of women, religious myths, and popular traditions. "The trip. Habibi" is one of the artist’s most relevant works. It invites spectators to immerse themselves, in almost funfair fashion, in a hypothetical voyage of North African immigrants over European motorways. A beaten-up Mercedes, laden with packages and crammed with objects, reproduces the bumps in the road and the atmosphere of smells and sound inside. In the province of Cádiz, near the Strait of Gibraltar, one usually finds this type of cars, filled with luggage and objects that cross the territory from north to south on their way to the Africa during the holiday seasons. The car becomes a symbol of recognition and social position, a mark of success coming from Europe. The Fundación NMAC (the Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo) is a unique space in Spain which explores the space shared by contemporary art and nature. The objective of the NMAC Foundation is to invite international artists to carry out specific artistic projects that are in tune with the landscape. NMAC is a cultural reference in southern Europe also for its educational and cultural programming.

The artist Fernando Sánchez Castillo was born in Madrid in 1970, the city where he continues to live and work. He is a graduate in Fine Art at the Complutense University, Madrid and he holds a Master’s degree from the Institute of Contemporary Aesthetics, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid. This artist’s work usually includes symbols that ironically question the relationship between art, power and history. He describes himself as "archeologist of history" and conduce us with his project through one of the most striking episodes in the Spanish Contemporary History. "Pact of Madrid", is one of his most representative works. It was designed in 2003 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the pact signed between General Francisco Franco and the president of the United States of America D. Eisenhower. This treaty marked the post-war acceptance of Spain to the European Union, and – in return –the placement of many American military bases on Spanish territory. The Fundación NMAC (the Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo) is a unique space in Spain which explores the space shared by contemporary art and nature. The objective of the NMAC Foundation is to invite international artists to carry out specific artistic projects that are in tune with the landscape. NMAC is a cultural reference in southern Europe also for its educational and cultural programming.

James Turrell (born in Los Angeles, California in1943) is an artist who falls into the Land Art genre. The historical and artistic relevance of his work lies in his ability to examine the way in which we perceive light, and to isolate those features and present them to the viewer in each of his works. Instead of showing us the results of his research into the psychological perception of light, Turrell wants viewers to discover them for themselves, through their own experience. With his artworks, he offers us the chance to understand the various features of light and solar energy, and how the retina responds when faced with the changes in brightness and colour that take place throughout the day and in our planet’s two different hemispheres. Second Wind 2005 is an architectural piece, located underground, in which viewers enter an inner pyramid, via a tunnel. Inside is a stone stupa, surrounded by a pool. Stupas are circular domes used in Buddhist architecture, and whose shape and position have the effect of making the cosmos appear closer. The passageway into the stupa leads to a room with a circular hole in the ceiling, open to the sky. Here, visitors can sit down and watch the changes of light "sculpted" by the artist. Turrell particularly recommends enjoying it at sunset, the moment of transition from day into night, when light is at its most intense and the colours of the sky are enhanced, altering the viewer’s perception of the sky as a space, a shape and an object. The Fundación NMAC (the Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo) is a unique space in Spain which explores the space shared by contemporary art and nature. The objective of the NMAC Foundation is to invite international artists to carry out specific artistic projects that are in tune with the landscape. NMAC is a cultural reference in southern Europe also for its educational and cultural programming.

James Turrell (born in Los Angeles, California in1943) is an artist who falls into the Land Art genre. The historical and artistic relevance of his work lies in his ability to examine the way in which we perceive light, and to isolate those features and present them to the viewer in each of his works. Instead of showing us the results of his research into the psychological perception of light, Turrell wants viewers to discover them for themselves, through their own experience. With his artworks, he offers us the chance to understand the various features of light and solar energy, and how the retina responds when faced with the changes in brightness and colour that take place throughout the day and in our planet’s two different hemispheres. Second Wind 2005 is an architectural piece, located underground, in which viewers enter an inner pyramid, via a tunnel. Inside is a stone stupa, surrounded by a pool. Stupas are circular domes used in Buddhist architecture, and whose shape and position have the effect of making the cosmos appear closer. The passageway into the stupa leads to a room with a circular hole in the ceiling, open to the sky. Here, visitors can sit down and watch the changes of light "sculpted" by the artist. Turrell particularly recommends enjoying it at sunset, the moment of transition from day into night, when light is at its most intense and the colours of the sky are enhanced, altering the viewer’s perception of the sky as a space, a shape and an object. The Fundación NMAC (the Montenmedio Arte Contemporáneo) is a unique space in Spain which explores the space shared by contemporary art and nature. The objective of the NMAC Foundation is to invite international artists to carry out specific artistic projects that are in tune with the landscape. NMAC is a cultural reference in southern Europe also for its educational and cultural programming.