The title of the exhibition comes from one of the writings of the artist Manolo Gil, one of the most brilliant creators of the post-war generation of Spanish creators, whose work and theoretical postulates largely articulate the structure of the exhibition.
The exhibition is proposed as an open investigation that casts a new look at this Valencian historical period from an interdisciplinary perspective and methodology, attentive to the social context and critical with a conception of art as an autonomous reality, alien to the world around him.
This way, and through a selection of more than two hundred works by more than fifty artists (Manolo Gil, Jacinta Gil, Angels Ballester, Juan Genovés, Joaquín MIchavila, Vicente Castellano, Manuel Baeza, Peiró Coronado or Rosa Fagoaga, others) and abundant documentation, the exhibition reviews the contributions of the various collectives and artists who played a leading role in the renewal of the arts in Valencia during this period, also paying special attention to the changes in the arts of the Catholic Church, to the persistences and drifts of the Modern Movement in architecture, interior design and mural art.
