Résistance et renaissance : l'art espagnol d'après-guerre: Paris
Current exhibition
Overview
At a time when history seems suspended and collective memory kidnapped by official silence, post-war Spanish art is offered not as a witness, but as a practice of material resistance and projection.
Informalism, with its wounded surfaces, its convulsed gestures and its raw material, becomes a subversive language that not only narrates trauma, but also opens cracks in the present time to imagine possible futures.
The works of Tàpies, Miró, Saura, Chillida Bolumar, Chordà or Picasso do not constitute a style, but an attitude: gesture as memory, texture as an archive of pain and form as an anticipation of what has not yet been possible. In this context, art is not evasion, but political inscription; it is not amnesia, but latent power.
This exhibition traces a geography of resistance that does not just look back, but raises questions about the capacity of art to build more just futures, from a past that still festeres. It is an invitation to inhabit the gap between wound and hope.
“I understand the artist to be someone who, amidst the silence of others, uses his voice to say something [...] the fact of being able to say something, when the majority of people do not have the option of expressing themselves, obliges this voice in some wat to be prophetic. To be, in a certain sense, the voice of its community.”
Joan Miró
“If I paint the way I paint, first of all it’s because I am Catalan. But, like so many others, I am affected by the political drama of Spain as a whole [...]. In my painting I want to inscribe all my country’s difficulties, even if I cause displeasure: suffering, painful experiences, prison, a gesture of revolt. Art must live the truth.”
Antoni Tàpies
