1914-1936
5 June | 24 July
New Figuration in Madrid | 1970-1975
Javier Sapena Collection
M-F. 10-14 | 16.30-20.30
The exhibition shows for the first time the Javier Sapena Collection of the 1970s: seventeen works dated between 1970 and 1975 that make up a formidable journey through the origins of what is known as the New Figuration in Madrid. The collection includes important works, some of them emblematic, by the most representative artists of that time: Carlos Alcolea, Chema Cobo, Carlos Franco, Manolo Quejido, Herminio Molero, Rafael Pérez Mínguez and Guillermo Pérez Villalta.
The exhibition aims to show, on the one hand, the first glimpses of Nueva Figuración Madrileña, without which the art of the Movida and the figuration of the 80s and 90s would not be understood and, on the other hand, to pay tribute to Javier Sapena, a passionate and erudite collector, who brings new stories to the Spanish contemporary art scene.
The catalog includes an unpublished essay by Javier Sapena himself entitled El pálpito de lo eterno and a text by Óscar Alonso Molina.
