The work of Juan Giralt (Madrid, 1940–2007) was initially self-taught in the Informalism that predominated the 1950s. A brief spell in Holland at the end of this decade enabled him to come into contact with the CoBrA group and saw him begin to shape a more personal and permeable pictorial language in a new interpretation of Figuration. This characterised his work in the 1970s and 1980s, turning him into a reference point of New Figuration in Madrid. In the years that followed, until his death in 2007, he would gradually incorporate abstraction, but without ever relinquishing figurative elements that were present in the constant use of collage and the painted word.
The exhibition organised by the Museo Reina Sofía for this coming winter has a sharper focus on the last period of Giralt’s career, and sequentially displays his breakaway from Informalism through certain works on paper that represent his work in the 1970s. Moreover, they anticipate his later explorations into Figuration and Abstraction, a dilemma which, under expressive and analytical tension, runs through his whole pictorial progression and which he overcame via the highly personal synthesis of both styles, eventually arriving at a denial of their difference.
Exhibition´s details
Current exhibitions
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24 November 2022 - 17 April 2023
Margarita Azurdia
Margarita Rita Rica Dinamita
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16 November 2022 - 27 February 2023
Documentary Genealogies
Photography 1848–1917
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10 November 2022 - 2 October 2023
An Act of Seeing that Unfolds
The Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch Collection
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21 October 2022 - 16 May 2023
Manolo Quejido
Immeasurable Distance
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7 October 2022 - 9 April 2023
Pauline Boudry / Renate Lorenz
Glass is my skin
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28 September 2022 - 27 March 2023
Francesc Tosquelles
Like a Sewing Machine in a Wheat Field
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21 September 2022 - 27 February 2023
Leonor Serrano Rivas
Natural magic
Program: Fisuras -
11 November, 2022 – 10 February, 2023
Cards on the Table
The memory of Nunca Máis and the stacked political cards
Muestras documentales, Biblioteca y Centro de Documentación