UNTIL SUNDAY 15/1/2023
VAT. Guillem de Castro, 118
The city of Valencia has had three walls and the vestiges of one of them, the medieval christian, They tour the room that houses the latest exhibition dedicated to Ignacio Pinazo at the IVAM. These ruins are a consequence of the demolition that 1865 would promote urban expansion and new spaces for socialization such as the Alameda, context of one of the great paintings of Pinazo in public space. In this oil painting, Pinazo captures a carnival scene where the main characters—two women in a joking attitude and two jesters doing buffoonery—form the vertex of a V that confirms the artist's mastery in the composition of scenes.. Everyday scenes that are bustling because he leitmotif of this exhibition are the urban crowds in motion, participating in masses, tartans, Corpus Christi processions, chocolatàs, smoking faults and beach sunsets. Pinazo left academicism behind to embrace daily life on the streets. With twenty years, and until the end of his days, The artist captured with his fast and intense lines the new forms of leisure and socialization in public spaces., first in the city and then in more rural areas of Moncada or Godella. AU
