Exposición en London, London, City of, Reino Unido

Postwar Art in Spain

Dónde:

Colnaghi - Londres / 26 Bury Street / London, London, City of, Reino Unido

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Cuándo:

26 feb de 2018 - 09 mar de 2018

Inauguración:

26 feb de 2018 / 18:00

Precio:

Entrada gratuita

Organizada por:

Colnaghi , Galeria Mayoral

Artistas participantes:

Antoni Tàpies , Antonio Saura , Joan Brossa , Luis Feito , Manolo Millares

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Descripción de la Exposición

At Galeria Mayoral presents this exhibition on the art of the Spanish postwar years, featuring exceptional works by Brossa, Feito, Millares, Saura and Tàpies, in London. It is an exhibition with links to the group show that took place in 1962 at the Tate Gallery, in which this disruptive generation presented its new artistic experiments in the UK capital, just as it had done earlier in New York (with exhibitions at the MoMA and the Guggenheim), at documenta in Kassel and at the biennials in Venice, São Paulo and Paris. The show embraces eleven paintings and four poem-objects, including the canvas 253 by Luis Feito, exhibited in 1962 at TATE exhibition Modern Spanish Painting; two large-scale canvases by Antonio Saura from 1959 and an accurate selection of early mixed-media composition by Antoni Tàpies. These artists shared an urge to seek new forms to express the concerns of their era and to ... contemporize a legacy expressed in a masterly manner by El Greco, Velázquez and Goya, and also by Picasso and Miró. Through art, they conveyed the existential suffering of their generation, occasioned by the injustice, oppression and uncertainty which defined 20th century politics. This group strived to combat the status quo by speaking out and rebelling against it. They struggled against an artistic canon that was obsolete following the wars of the opening half of the 20th century, with the advent of Art Informel and Abstract Expressionism. It is a privilege to present this exhibition in the legendary Colnaghi gallery, with which we share a love of the archive and the library; of sampling art with rigour, research, passion and enthusiasm; of renewing discourses; and of promoting culture and bringing it to new audiences. On this occasion we present a publication that includes the contributions of Vicenç Altaió [cultural activist and writer and the President of the Joan Brossa Foundation] and an interview by the curator Elena Sorokina [curator and art historian, currently working at HISK, the Higher Institute for Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium] with the artist Luis Feito, the last surviving artist among the ones represented in this exhibition. About Mayoral Mayoral is an art gallery founded in Barcelona in 1989 that specialises in Modern and Post-War art. Its exhibition programme is structured around leading artists of the 20th century, among them Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Alexander Calder, Eduardo Chillida, Manolo Millares, Antonio Saura, Antoni Tàpies, Joan Brossa and Luis Feito. The gallery pursues projects that are meticulously curated. It is supported by the families of the artists, as well as by foundations and other institutions whose mission is to preserve and raise awareness of the legacies left by the artists. It also enjoys the trust of international public and private collectors and museums. Postwar Spanish Art is Mayoral’s third project in London, following the success of the pop-up shows Miró’s Studio (2016) and Art Revolutionaries (2017).

Imágenes de la Exposición

Luis Feito, "253", 1961. Oil on canvas, 150x150 cm. Exhibited in Modern Spanish Painting, TATE Gallery, London, 1962 – Cortesía de la Gallería Mayoral

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