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Madrid, Sep 18. - Home of Pablo Picasso's famous Gernika, the Reina Sofía Museum inaugurates the 2024-2025 season with a program full of new features, the institution highlighted today.
According to Manuel Segade, director of the museum, the kickoff will come next week with the retrospective of the artist Soledad Sevilla, Rhythms, plots, variables.
It covers the entire career of the Valencian painter, Soledad Sevilla (1944), in a chronological and circular way, bringing together more than a hundred works.
It will be followed by a retrospective of the German visual artist Hito Steyerlm, Liquid Times, Feudal Times, her last 10 years of work. She will visit Madrid and teach a master class.
Then, Esperpento will be exhibited. Popular art and aesthetic revolution, which addresses the concept of "esperpento" as a nucleus of aesthetic thought capable of offering a new perspective to understand reality.
Formulated by the writer Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) as a tool for critical questioning, in reaction to the backwardness and moral despair that devastated Spain in the first third of the 20th century, the grotesque confronted the social, political and cultural confinement from Spain.
In a moved air (...), curated by the French thinker Georges Didi-Huberman, it is an exhibition that articulates a political anthropology of emotion in a poetic key.
Its title, taken from the Romancero gypsy by Federico García Lorca, appeals to overflowing emotion and not constrained to a single subject, where the Lorca idea of ??the "duende" comes into play.
The exhibition route is divided into several sections, one of them Faces and Gestures, which includes works by Auguste Rodin, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dalí and Henri Michaux, among others.
Another segment, Sites, highlights the limitations of the Cartesian conception of space and the emergence of emotion in it, with works by James Ensor, Simon Hantaï or Joan Miró or Lucio Fontana.
In addition, Policies is added, through the works of Pier Paolo Pasolini, Costas Balafas, Bertolt Brecht, Francisco de Goya or survivors of the Hiroshima bombing.
A section organized by the Museum with the Film Library is called The Alley of Mirrors, with classics by Edgar Neville, Luis García Berlanga, Francisco Regueiro, and contemporaries of the stature of María Cañas, Chema García Ybarra and Albert Serra.
In addition to cinema, music, literature, artistic creation, communication technologies and image reproduction, they are part of this vast program of one of the great cultural spaces of Spain.
Among other attractions, appears Place of Consolation, a plastic narrative by the Guatemalan Naufus Ramírez Figueroa, in which sculptural objects, performance or film and sound recordings are intertwined. (Text and Photo: PL)
