Temporary Exhibition
Current
From June 01 to October 17, 2021
Painting Light. Catalan Masters from the Carmen Thyssen Collection
A keen collector of works full of colour and emotion which captivate viewers with their beauty, Baroness Carmen Thyssen seems to have been concerned with painting light when she assembled her extraordinary holdings of Catalan masters. Sun-drenched landscapes and melancholic dusks in tranquil countryside settings, resplendent Mediterranean c...
Forthcoming
From October 22, 2021 to January 16, 2022
Sorolla en Jávea
La estancia estival de Sorolla en Jávea en 1905 supuso un catalizador para que el pintor alcanzase la madurez de su estilo más reconocido. La pintura en un entorno de acantilados de gran belleza le llevó a la sustitución paulatina de la playa por las calas y las rocas, y propició asimismo el estudio de las figuras en el agua y los juego...
Forthcoming
From November 16, 2021 to March 06, 2022
Paul Strand. La belleza directa. Fotografías de las Colecciones Fundación MAPFRE
A través de más de un centenar de fotografías, esta exposición ofrece una amplia visión de la trayectoria del artista neoyorquino Paul Strand (1890-1976). La selección de obras refleja los hitos de su carrera, los rasgos esenciales de su producción y su valor, permitiendo apreciar la evolución de uno de los pioneros de la fotografía...
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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 vis...
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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...