Temporary Exhibition
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From September 19 to December 10, 2023
Rafael Canogar
The questioning of the two-dimensional limits of painting and its transformation into an “architectural” piece—two ideas that run through the vast artistic career of Rafael Canogar (b. Toledo, 1935)—serve as this exhibition’s leitmotif. A pioneer of informalism in the 1950s, Canogar’s approach to abstraction was ...
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From September 30, 2023 to February 18, 2024
Fiercely human. Portraits of Baroque Sanctity
Sanctity and its portrayal in art were two aspects that characterised Baroque culture in Spain. Following the Council of Trent (1545–63), the cult of saints as mediators and the definition of Catholicism as a decidedly visual religion were cornerstones of the Catholic reaction to the Protestant Reformation. The late sixteenth century saw an i...
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From November 07, 2023 to January 28, 2024
José Guitérrez Solana. Guest works
The encounter between these three works by José Gutiérrez Solana (1886–1945), made possible by the collaboration of the Banco Santander Collection, brings viewers face to face with strange and disturbing depictions of customs. Outstanding examples of the artist's painting and of one of his main themes, they represent an independent approach...
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Memory of the Streets
In this exhibition three women photographers explore the streets of Barcelona in three consecutive periods of key importance in Spain’s recent history. Margaret Michaelis, who arrived from Berlin in 1933, came across the modern city of the 1930s then in the midst of transformation and growth. ...
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Buenos Aires Fervour
Buenos Aires Fervour, whose title is taken from the first book of poems of another universal Argentine, Jorge Luis Borges, is a translation of Horacio Coppola’s love of the city into photographic language. Through a large group of pictures from Fundación Telefónica – a total of a hundr...
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Street Life. Lisette Model and Helen Levitt in New York
In this exhibition, photographers Lisette Model (1901-1983) and Helen Levitt (1913-2009) exchange glances on the streets of 1940s New York. Observing the inhabitants of the city through the lenses of their 35 mm cameras, each in their own way, the two women practised a modern, original form of stree...