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COMMUNICATING VESSELS. Collection

The Museo Reina Sofía Collection offers narratives and experiences which, without seeking to be exhaustive or categorical, speak of the present time through the critical study of the common past.

Under the title Communicating Vessels, the Collection is organised into Episodes with flexible temporalities and interdisciplinary approaches, chapters thought out organically and with the capacity to interlink, transform and incorporate others and sculpt new narratives.

The different episodes of Communicating Vessels, spanning from 1881 to the present day, can be viewed virtually on this page and in the rooms of the Museo.

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The episodes Double Exhibition: Art and Cold War, Enemies of Poetry: Resistance in Latin America (except Room 430), Apparatus 92. Can History Be Rewound?, and Exodus and Communal Life will be closed temporarily. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
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Episode 1 Avant-garde Territories. City, Architecture and Magazines

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Episode 2 The Lost Thought

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Episode 3 Campo cerrado

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Episode 4 Double Exhibition: Art and Cold War (temporarily closed)

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Episode 5 Enemies of Poetry: Resistance in Latin America (temporarily closed)

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Episode 6 A Drunken Boat: Eclecticism, Institutionalism and Disobedience in the ‘80s

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Episode 7 Apparatus 92. Can History Be Rewound? (temporarily closed)

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Episode 8 Exodus and Communal Life (temporarily closed)

Artworks in the collection

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La costurera (The Seamstress)
José Solana (José Gutiérrez Solana)
1943
Room 400.02
Escenas de la vida del pueblo (Scenes of Village Life)
Xavier Miserachs
1965 / Vintage print
Room 424
Arrangez vous
Esteban Francés
1939
Room 402
Grandes cosas están pasando (Big Things Are Happening)
Jesús Ruiz Durand
1970
Los cuatro dictadores (The Four Dictators)
Eduardo Arroyo
1963
Room 426
L'Anticoncept (Anti-Concept)
Gil J Wolman
1951
Room 412
Las armas deben estar en el frente (Weapons Must Be on the Front)
Sección de artes plásticas de la Alianza de intelectuales para la defensa de la cultura
1937
Room 205.05
Espoir (Hope)
José García Tella
1950
Room 401
Ballets Espagnols de La Argentina (Ballets Espagnols of La Argentina)
Carlos Sáenz de Tejada
1927
Room 205.12
Video Trans Américas
Juan Downey
1973-1976
Between Argelès-sur-Mer and Le Barcarès (France, March 1939)
Robert Capa (André Ernö Friedmann)
1939 (March) / Posthumous print, 1998
Room 401
La romería de los cornudos (The Pilgrimage of Cuckolds)
Alberto (Alberto Sánchez)
1933
Room 205.12

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Authors

A. M. Sol (Mauricio A. Sollín) Abad, Antoni Abad, Francesc Abakanowicz, Magdalena Aballí, Ignasi Abbott, Berenice Abe Wakahara, Julio Abián Rose, Sonia Abramo, Livio Abramovic, Marina Abu Hamdan, Lawrence Aburto Renobales, Rafael Acconci, Vito Acevedo Velarde, Gabriel Acha-Kutscher, María María Acosta Moro, Luis Adami, Valerio Adams, Kay B.

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