New COLLECTION. CONTEMPORARY ART: 1975 – PRESENT

 

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COLLECTION. CONTEMPORARY ART: 1975 – PRESENT From 18 February   The new presentation of the Museo Reina Sofía Collections spanning fifty years of contemporary art from Spain, from the Transition to democracy to the present day, via three exhibition routes. By way of a selection of 403 works by 224 artists, over half have not been exhibited previously in the Museo Reina Sofía Collections, this new narrative seeks to cast light on the contribution of Spanish contemporary art. The exhibition stretches across the entire fourth floor of the Sabatini Building, totalling more than 3,000 square metres. Its arrangement is linear and sometimes non-chronological and ranges across twenty-one chapters, comprising well-known pieces and acclaimed artists such as Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Juan Genovés, Juan Muñoz, Cristina Iglesias, Susana Solano, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Esther Ferrer, Cristina García Rodero, Richard Serra and Andy Warhol; figures closely entwined with the Transition to democracy in Spain and Madrid’s Movida movement, for instance Guillermo Pérez Villalta, Ocaña, Ouka Leele, Ceesepe, Nazario, Iván Zulueta and Alberto García- Alix; artists whose practice is linked to gender sensibilities, for instance Judy Chicago, Barbara Hammer, Eulàlia Grau, David Wojnarowicz, Pilar Albarracín and Cabello/Carceller; and key figures in the cultural, political and social representation of AIDS, such as Pepe Espaliú and Pepe Miralles. Furthermore, it includes other artists who approach their work from political and theoretical stances within the critical framework of representation, for example Joan Fontcuberta and Dora García, and those who have developed different approaches to Afro identity, for example Pocho Guimaraes, Agnes Essonti and Rubén H. Bermúdez.

 

Browse the new collection       Explore floor 4

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