Drawings by great masters such as Picasso, Dalí and Miró are brought together in the new exhibition organized by the City Council and Fundación MAPFRE at the Mirador del Carmen.

Drawing modernity’, consisting of a hundred works on paper, offers a semblance of the history of art from the late nineteenth to the early twentieth century by the hand of its most renowned creators.

The exhibition, which can be visited from October 25 to February 23, will feature works by universal geniuses such as Klimt, Degas, Sorolla, Rodin, Tàpies and Matisse.

The Estepona City Council is preparing the new exhibition that will arrive at the Mirador del Carmen Cultural Center. Together with Fundación MAPFRE it is organizing the exhibition ‘Drawing modernity. Fundación MAPFRE Collections’, a semblance, as if it were a diary, of the history of art of much of the twentieth century on paper. Among the collections on display to the public are works by great universal geniuses of painting such as Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Edgar Degas, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró.

The exhibition can be visited in the exhibition space of the new cultural facility from October 25 to February 23, and will display a hundred drawings framed in the period between 1864 and 1968 created by undisputed figures in the history of art that will hang for the first time on the walls of the Mirador del Carmen. Among these masters we can highlight names such as Joaquín Sorolla, Auguste Rodin, Egon Schiele, Mariano Fortuny, Rafael Alberti, Eduardo Chillida or Antoni Tàpies.

The exhibition, which will be structured in three creative stages, will start with drawings by Spanish artists such as Mariano Fortuny, Joaquín Sorolla or Francisco Pradilla y Ortiz, “still linked to tradition, but with features that make us think of that beginning of the century that was about to arrive”. Many of them were cosmopolitan artists, worked outside our borders and knew the works of masters such as Edgar Degas, Auguste Rodin, Egon Schiele, or Gustav Klimt, also present in the exhibition.

Significant is the presence of Pablo Picasso in Paris, where he developed most of his career and whose work served as a link between the most innovative trends that developed in the French capital and the art that was produced in Spain. The exhibition includes some of his works created during this period.

Drawings by Joaquim Sunyer, Enric Casanovas, Joaquín Torres García or Francis Picabia will dialogue with each other to tell us about a change of era and a heterogeneous art that includes aspects of the avant-garde movements through the aforementioned Picasso, but also Juan Gris, Alexander Archipenko or Sonia Delaunay, among others.

The privileged presence of many Spanish artists in Paris allowed them to witness firsthand the development of surrealism, a trend to which this exhibition devotes special attention because of its importance. Some of the painters in the exhibition were active members of the group and essential figures of the movement. Such is the case of Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Luis Fernández and Óscar Domínguez. The relations between France and Spain resulted in a strong surrealist imprint in our country, which would extend over time and would walk along with other currents until the decade of the nineteen fifties of the last century.

After the Civil War, the avant-garde impulse in Spain, although not forgotten, suffered a break. A certain type of costumbrist and melancholic art appears, related to the German realism of the twenties, which has its best expression in the watercolors of Arturo Souto, which can be seen first hand in the new exhibition at the Mirador del Carmen.

New investigations arise from these dates: the echo of the new European realisms in Genaro Lahuerta and Joaquín Peinado, the surrealist influence in the Julio González of the forties, the search for the primitive and the pure forms of Ángel Ferrant, link with those already informalist works; some more gestural, others more material, of which the two drawings that close the exhibition, by Tápies and Chillida respectively, give an excellent example.

The holdings of this exhibition, which are part of the valuable collection of drawings of Fundación Mapfre, offer a unique opportunity to admire works of art on paper by the most outstanding artists, through a story that aims to show the paths that led to modernity in the change from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

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