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COMMUNICATING VESSELS. Collection 1881-2021

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

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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

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Episode 5 Enemies of Poetry: Resistance in Latin America

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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?

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Episode 8 Exodus and Communal Life

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
Room 104.07
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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Abad, Antoni Abad, Francesc Abakanowicz, Magdalena Aballí, Ignasi Abbott, Berenice Abián Rose, Sonia Abramo, Livio Abramovic, Marina Abu Hamdan, Lawrence Aburto Renovales, Rafael Acconci, Vito Acevedo Velarde, Gabriel Acha-Kutscher, María María Acosta Moro, Luis Adami, Valerio Adams, Robert Adamson, Robert Adasme, Elías

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