Interior de Water (Taza de W.C. y ventana) (1968-71). Author: López García, Antonio. Property: Colección Masaveu.  © of the reproduction photography:  María Cristina  Masaveu  Peterson Foundation,  2014.  Author of the photograph: Marcos Morilla.

MADRID REALISTS

Organised by: Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Curator: Guillermo Solana, Artistic Director of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza and María López.
Technical Curator: Leticia de Cos, Curatorial Department, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Work of Colección Masaveu  loaned for the exhibition:
Interior de Water (Taza de W.C. y ventana) (1968-71). Autor: Antonio López García (Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, 1936).

“The Museum will be presenting an exhibition on a celebrated group of painters and sculptors of the same generation who have lived and worked in Madrid since the 1950s and who are united by their early training, their work and the ir personal and family ties. While other names are sometimes added, the group to be presented in this exhibition comprises seven artists: Antonio López García (Tomelloso, Ciudad Real, 1936); his wife María Moreno (Madrid, 1933); the sculptors Julio López Hernández (Madrid, 1930) and his brother Francisco (Madrid, 1932); Julio’s wife, the painter Esperanza Parada (San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, 1928 – Madrid, 2011); Francisco’s wife, the painter Isabel Quintanilla (Madrid, 1938), and Amalia Avia (Santa Cruz de la Zarza, Toledo, 1930 –Madrid, 2011). Not all these artists were born in Madrid, but for all of them the city was or is their principal place of work and residence.

This exhibition, which is benefiting from the collaboration of the Comunidad de Madrid, is the first on these artists to be held in Madrid in the past twenty-five years and offers a reassessment of the group as a whole. It will include around ninety works including oil paintings, sculptures, reliefs and drawings, which will be displayed in the galleries in a way that establishes dialogues between the artists and emphasises the points they have in common, both with regard to their choice of subjects and their manner of approaching them. These connections are reinforced by the close relationship that links these artists, either of family ties or friendship, the coincidences in their academic training and their shared opposition to the Informalism that prevailed in the Spanish art scene in the 1950s”. 

 MUSEO THYSSEN- BORNERMISZA

 

REALISTAS DE MADRID
MADRID REALISTS

Museo Thyssen-Bornermisza
February 9, 2016  – May 22, 2016