UNTIL SUNDAY 16/10
F. BANCAJA. Pl. Tetouan, 23
The almighty collection arrives Thyssen-Bornemisza to Valencia to discuss with some pieces from the Bancaja Foundation in Modernity roads 1860-1980. The exhibition will offer a tour of various pictorial movements that emerged from the second half of the 19th century to the last years of the 20th through the work of creators from the Mediterranean area such as Mariano Fortuny, Santiago Rusiñol, Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa, Joaquín Sorolla (of course), Antoni Tàpies, Joaquín Torres García and Miquel Barceló. The Spanish artistic scene in 1860, just like the European, was at the crossroads of two diametrically opposed artistic currents: on the one hand, compositions with a marked romantic and historicist character continued to be made, But a generation of young artists was beginning to emerge with the desire to renew the plastic language by painting landscapes and natures that were an escape route for new concerns.. In Valencia and Catalonia, in fact, A group of painters will emerge who will have the landscape as a source of direct inspiration and as a way to channel the development of modern painting.. The melancholic and precious romanticism that Mariano Fortuny practiced in his landscapes in the first stage had been left behind and movements such as modernism inspired by nature were yet to come., of which Anglada Camarasa was a prominent representative in the Catalan sphere, or the noucentism (civic and cultural project that aspired to modernize Catalonia at the beginning of the 20th century) that would permeate the work inspired by classical Greece by Joaquín Torres-García . Then the Avant-garde, led by a revolutionary impressionism that crept into the canvases of Sorolla or Rusiñol, will kick open the door., painter of the surrounding life who does not preselect themes, always on the hunt for unusual settings. And with headbutts Antoni Tàpies created his own style within what would be called informalism based on the surrealism that permeated his group. Dau al Set, or Miquel Barceló with his Mediterranean neo-expressionism. Thyssen and Bancaja draw different paths that start from our Mediterranean to reach the Modernity that it experienced making the Academy, bastion of tradition, nervous.. S.M.
