: VAL DEL OMAR overflow

The collection covers the artist’s creations and surroundings through the exhibition of documents, photographs and films related to his activities starting from the years of the Second Republic, it is linked to his experience in Pedagogical Missions, the Civil War or the technological inventions in the fields of image and sound. In the search of a better use for films, both for the wide screen and for television, Val del Omar devises different recording and sound reproduction systems, as well as various film formats. He also develops the necessary machinery for the implementation of their techniques: "crosstalk", "tactile-vision" and perfected or adapted various devices commonly used in audiovisual production and exhibition. The exhibition recreates the original location of the PLAT laboratory, Val del Omar’s workspace, where almost all types of projection devices, lenses, polarizers, filters, gaskets, etc…, have been preserved intact.

Many of the artist's cinematic creations round off the exhibition, especially his Tríptico Elemental de España, which consists of three short films shot between 1953 and the mid-sixties, in Granada, the lands of Castile and Galicia, with symbolic motifs of water, fire and earth, which are the main manifestation of his own particular cinematographic concept on "the edge between reality and mystery" in which Fuego en Castilla (1958-60) stands out.