Museo Carmen Thyssen

Juana Francés. Intimate retrospective (1957-1985)

This exhibition, organised in collaboration with the MACA, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Alicante, presents in Malaga the work of one of the most outstanding Spanish women artists of the second half of the twentieth century: Juana Francés (Alicante, 1924−Madrid, 1990). The Al...

Luis Feito. Painting Itself. From the Artist’s Collection (1956-1962)

Comprising nine works by the painter Luis Feito (1929-2021) produced between 1956 and 1962, this exhibition focuses on a particularly decisive period, both in his individual creative career and in the opening up of Spanish art to a new avant-garde in which abstraction introduced a radical break w...

Zurbarán. Saints

During the Baroque period in Spain the Catholic reaction to the Protestant Reformation gave rise to an art based on realistic and highly dramatic images whose purpose was to inspire devotion through highly emotionally charged depictions of saintliness. This context, in what was known as the Spani...