Temporary Exhibition
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From January 30 to April 21, 2024Man Ray. Selected Photographs
For this exhibition devoted to the American Emmanuel Radnitzky (1890-1976) –better known as Man Ray– the Museum’s Sala Noble (Grand Hall) has turned into a sort of avant-garde cabinet of curiosities. Offering a survey of his most iconic photographs, from a French private collection, it is organised around three themes: nudes, rayo...
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From March 16 to September 08, 2024Latent Modernity
Through more than sixty paintings, mostly from the Telefónica Collection, this exhibition tells the story of an episode in Spanish art that was largely shaped by the historical period to which it belongs. The hopes aroused by the signs of an emerging avant-garde before the Civil War (1936ê·39), fuelled above all by the new art o...
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Fiercely human. Portraits of Baroque Sanctity
Sanctity and its portrayal in art were two aspects that characterised Baroque culture in Spain. Following the Council of Trent (1545–63), the cult of saints as mediators and the definition of Catholicism as a decidedly visual religion were cornerstones of the Catholic reaction to the Protestan...
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José Gutiérrez Solana. Guest works
The encounter between these three works by José Gutiérrez Solana (1886–1945), made possible by the collaboration of the Banco Santander Collection, brings viewers face to face with strange and disturbing depictions of customs. Outstanding examples of the artist's painting and of one of his m...
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Rafael Canogar
The questioning of the two-dimensional limits of painting and its transformation into an “architectural” piece—two ideas that run through the vast artistic career of Rafael Canogar (b. Toledo, 1935)—serve as this exhibition’s leitmotif. A pioneer of informalism in the 1...