Temporary Exhibition
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From April 22 to July 25, 2021
Piranesi. A Visionary’s Prints
The more than a thousand prints produced by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Venice, 1720−Rome, 1778) are the work of a passionate architect with a painter’s eye who only expressed his creativity in etched plates. A universal master of printmaking, Piranesi earned a reputation as the best visual chronicler of Rome with his scenic view...
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From June 01 to October 17, 2021
Pintar la luz. Maestros catalanes de la Colección Carmen Thyssen
En el año del décimo aniversario del Museo, Pintar la luz. Maestros catalanes de la colección Carmen Thyssen rinde homenaje a la colección de pintura española de la baronesa Carmen Thyssen, de la que el MCTM acoge una extensa muestra, y que ahora ampliamos con una exposición temporal de más de cincuenta piezas, entre pinturas, escultu...
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Avant-garde drawings [1910-1945]
An essential device in artistic training and painters’ and sculptors’ creative processes, in the twentieth century drawing came to be viewed as a form of artistic expression in its own right, independent of academic practices or preparatory sketches. Artists of various disciplines, then ...
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Masks. Metamorphosis of Modern Identity
This exhibition reflects on the mask as a means of transforming how the human figure is represented in modern art. Originally having a traditional festive use associated with the carnival and fancy dress, which continued to be predominant in commedia dell’arte characters, masks began to be ass...
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Toulouse-Lautrec and the circus
In 1899, during a short period of convalescence in a sanatorium in Neuilly, on the outskirts of Paris, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864−1901), the great portraitist of fin-de-siècle Parisian bohemia, produced a series of 39 drawings on one of his favourite themes: circus performances lik...