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FROM MIRÓ TO BARCELÓ. A CENTURY OF SPANISH ART

12/03/2020 – 06/02/2022

Cubism, surrealism, figuration and abstraction; painting, sculpture, film and video; in the history of 20th and 21st century art, not a single period or field has not been led by Spanish artists. Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí or Luis Buñuel advocated for new ways of seeing and creating that remain strong influences today. This chronological pathway through a century of Spanish art reveals how the current generation of artists has kept alive the spirit of the avant-garde with extraordinary energy. Their predecessors lived through troubling times, Parisian exile, the war, and ostracism which fuelled a repertoire of moving, radical and even sacrilegious images.

Once freedom is restored, their heirs, such as Miquel Barceló, Cristina Iglesias, and La Ribot, among others, keep on surprising us by inventing new approaches to painting, sculpture and space which re-enchant the materials, rituals and myths of Spanish art.

JULIO GONZÁLEZ

27/05/2021 – 17/10/2021

Also present in the exhibition «From Miró to Barceló. A century of Spanish art ”, the work gathered here by the Catalan sculptor Julio González (1876-1942) comes from the Musée national d’art moderne in Paris. In combination with the Institut Valencià d ’Art Modern (IVAM), the Mnam preserves the richest collection of sculptures and drawings by the artist, mostly from donations and donations from his daughter, Roberta González, between 1953 and 1978.

Throughout the visit, we discover the great stages of a career initially focused on metalworking, with the classicist nudes and figurative portraits in embossed copper from the 1910s and 1920s, or the cut-out reliefs and the first wrought and welded iron sculptures. These works glimpse the great schematic sculptures of the 1930s that materialize his concept of «drawing in space», which deepened during his collaboration with Pablo Picasso between 1928 and 1932.

The preparatory drawings gathered around the sculptures upholds the appreciation of the technical process and the formal diversity of linear metal sculptures, such as Femme se coiffant I [Woman combing her hair I] from 1931 or L’Ange, L’Insecte, La Danseuse [El Ángel , El Insecto, La Bailarina] from 1935, and appraise the dynamism of the metamorphic and lyrical figures of the late 1930s.

Echoing the first pastel Self Portrait of 1914-1918, the last self-portraits drawn and engraved reflect the ascetic and strong personality of Julio González, considered the father of 20th century iron sculpture.

TO EACH THEIR POINT OF VIEW.
EXHIBITION – WORKSHOP.

04/06/2021 – 06/02/2022

The exhibition-workshop To each their point of view combines a series of activities to educate the gaze in an amusing and fun way. Focusing on a certain detail, changing the scale or angle of vision, approaching the subject

«cautiously, like a wolf», as Henri Cartier-Bresson used to say, and playing with shadows and lights, are some of the actions that allow the enjoyment of our personal gaze. Expanding a detail, a texture, a color, opens the mind to a world of sensations.

This workshop is an opportunity to discover and develop a specific vocabulary to learn how to interpret images. Expressing themselves with words and exploring photography allows children to appropriate reality and see their everyday environment in a different way. By imagining their own scenes from different photos and materials, they create images and gain the tools necessary to decipher and read them.

A film with photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson specially selected for the occasion completes this proposal aimed at a young and family audience.