Telluric and Primitive

From the School of Vallecas to Miquel Barceló

The more than sixty works brought together here – including paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and prints – are shown in two sections depending on which of these leitmotifs is predominant. Nevertheless, the two approaches are continually intertwined and inseparably interwoven in this narrative, which calls for a new look at the greatest artistic renewal in Spain that lasted until the late 1900s. In these eclectic and highly evocative images with their earthy colours, sometimes saturated with matter, sometimes intensely expressive and always with a powerful personality, practitioners of the telluric and primitive trends alike turn to the atavistic, the gestural, the graphic, the organic and the dreamlike in their avant-gardist proposals, irresistibly drawn to these two driving forces of a specifically Spanish modern art.