“Surrealisms. Graphic Work of the BBVA Collection”

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Surrealisms. Graphic Work of the BBVA Collection

“Surrealisms. Graphic Work of the BBVA Collection”

Admission free
Dates: 22 March – 9 June 2024
Venue: Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia. C/ San Pio V, 9. Valencia
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10 am – 8 pm (Monday closed)
Guided tours since 9th April: Tuesdays at 10:30 am and 4:30 pm, and Wednesdays at 4:30 pm. Information and booking in advance: Tel. +34 96 387 03 20 (9 am – 2pm)

BBVA is organizing the exhibition “Surrealisms. Graphic Work of the BBVA Collection” in conjunction with the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, as part of BBVA’s ongoing cultural programme and its commitment to bring its artistic heritage to the wider public.

As this year marks the centenary of the first Surrealist Manifesto, we are taking the opportunity to present this show comprising a group of 54 works by artists who have explored dreams and the subconscious, creating their own individual worldview through highly personal imagery. These are 54 works whose weightless forms, disfigured or biomorphic, invite us to dream and imagine abysmal depths, subterranean zones, fantastic cosmogonies peopled by strange and mysterious beings, and symbolic worlds generated by the individual experience of each artist. In short, this is a tour of the strange and surprising world of the subconscious, where real and unreal are interchangeable categories.

Worth underscoring among the works on exhibit is the set of prints by Salvador Dalí from his series “La conquête du cosmos”, the exceptional “Serie Mallorca” by Joan Miró, or the oil on canvas “La lumière de l‘ombre (The Light of the Shadow)” by Yves Tanguy, one of the greatest exponents of international Surrealism.

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