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There are various nuclei of extraordinary quality and enormous importance that grant the Collection its unique identity. Those which stand out are built around the great Spanish artists that made decisive contributions to the makeup of modernity’s language of the plastic arts and to the subsequent evolution of Spanish art, such as Picasso, Juan Gris, Miró, Dalí and Julio González. Alongside these nuclei are other periods that have generated ideas for modern discourse, and have left an important mark on the aesthetic experience of our country, such as the Informalist movements, post-1950s geometric abstract art, various manifestations of Pop Art, Figurative Narrative, the Minimal Art context, the emergence of conceptual art, video art, and the plurality of languages that defines the most recent art scene.. |
THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
The Museo Reina Sofia's Permanent Collection, which has double amount of space at the second floors, is made up of a selection of approximately 570 works. Pablo Picasso’s Guernica (1937) is its focal point.
The route through the Museum begins on the second floor with a selection of fundamental works from the historical avant garde movements. Starting with realist art at the beginning of the 20th century, the avant garde proposal with its dual path of Cubism and Surrealism, and the progressive abandon of representative form in search of abstraction, a chronological route through the Museum has been set up that leads the visitor to the end of the European war conflicts in the second quarter of this century.
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The enormous importance of Picasso, Gris, Miró and Dalí in the history of artistic creation converts their work into inevitable reference points of the modern age. Aesthetic approaches, tendencies and trajectories are articulated around these four names that explain Spanish avant garde art in its national and international milieu. |
The collection is exhibited based on a classification that groups the works under the following titles:
The Spanish masters mentioned above appear in these sections, along with other related artists, both Spanish and foreign. Represented here are all of the artistic techniques used in the respective periods until the end of World War II, for example, Post-Cubist sculpture by Julio González and Pablo Gargallo, films by Luis Buñuel, and Surrealist photography by Man Ray and Dora Maar, among others.
The ample presence of Spanish artists that were active at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th is highlighted in Representation/Figuration, with key individuals such as Darío de Regoyos, Santiago Rusiñol, Daniel Vázquez Díaz, Ignacio Zuloaga, José Gutiérrez Solana, Anglada-Camarasa, Isidro Nonell and Ramón Casas, among others. On view in the Cubism. Early avant garde section, alongside Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, are works by Georges Braque, Albert Gleizes, Fernand Léger, María Blanchard, Jacques Lipchitz, Robert y Sonia Delaunay, Francis Picabia and Joaquín Torres García.
The section titled Picasso. The Context of Guernica places emblematic work by the painter on view, as well as his preliminary drawings and other works related to this period. Also on view are works by artists that were exhibited in the 1937 Spanish Pavilion in Paris: Alexander Calder, Joan Miró and Alberto Sánchez, as well as the war photographs by Robert Capa. In the Surrealism galleries, in addition to Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró, nearly thirty artists are on view: Óscar Domínguez, Max Ernst, Ángel Ferrant, Magritte, Man Ray, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Tanguy, Brassaï, Dora Maar, Jean Arp, Maruja Mallo, Benjamín Palencia, Antoni Tàpies…
The second part of the Museum’s Permanent Collection, located on the fourth floor, focuses on authors and movements included between postwar Europe and the present. In the section titled Spanish Art in the Context of International Art, visitors stand before Spanish artists José Guerrero, Jorge Oteiza, Ràfols Casamada, Fernando Zóbel, Gustavo Torner, Rafael Canogar, Luis Feito, and Josep Guinovart with Asier Jorn, Isamu Noguchi, Cy Twonbly, Jannis Kounellis and Pier Paolo Calzolari.
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A separate gallery highlights artists based on their relevance in Spanish art and their importance in the Museum’s Collection: Antoni Tàpies, Antonio Saura, Eduardo Chillida, Jorge Oteiza, Manuel Millares and Manuel Rivera, Pablo Palazuelo, Eduardo Arroyo, Equipo Crónica and Esteban Vicente |
The presence in the Collection of the following international artists is noteworthy: Yves Klein and Lucio Fontana, not to mention Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Jean Dubuffet, Cy Twonbly, Jannis Kounellis, Robert Motherwell, Mario Merz, Sean Scully...
The Museum’s galleries that present the vast artistic vocabulary developed in the international panorama during the last two decades place works on view in various technical mediums: pictorial, sculptural, filmic and photographic, art installations, projections and video installations, etc. by national and international artists such as Cristina Iglesias, Louise Bourgeois, Gerhard Richter, Bill Viola, Anish Kapoor, Juan Muñoz, Miquel Barceló, Adolfo Schlosser, Robert Mapplethorpe, Per Barclay, Andreas Gursky…
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