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The Minister of Culture and Tourism, Pedro Alberto Cruz, today introduced the shows' Poetics of the twentieth century "which opens tomorrow at the Museum of Modern Art, Cartagena (Muram) and will be open until January 10, 2010.

'Poetics of the twentieth century' is a journey through 55 works by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Jaume Plensa, Pablo Gargallo and Antoni Tàpies, milestones for the Spanish art of the last century, said Cruz.

Thus, the sample "picks up where the previous ended, 'The Age of Rodin', that is, at the height of avant-garde and, ultimately, the origin of Spanish modernity."

The Minister of Culture pointed out that this exhibition offers "something as extremely ambitious as a walk through the lengthy, complex and almost irreducible twentieth-century Spanish art, from its origins, around 1900 until the present day."

All this in a "fairly exhaustive, trends and major schools who have shaped the evolution of modern and contemporary Spanish art."

This exhibition, according to Cruz, built a "coherent narrative" of what happened in Spain in the last hundred years, and which delivers a "very reliable" in the vanguard of Spanish modernity.

In his view, art is a "totally unique and different from the rest of Europe, and always marked by dialogue with the tradition."

Thus, "it was more risky gesture of Spanish artists, there was always that kind of permeability to the tradition which is evident in all the works."

The first vanguards are represented by the works of some of the most avant-garde artists such as Pablo Picasso, Joan Miro, the sculptor Julio González and Pablo Gargallo, Joaquín Torres-García, María Blanchard and Stephen Lisa.

It also features works by representatives of the Spanish School of Paris, who immigrated to the Parisian capital, "as Pedro Flores, Óscar Domínguez, Manuel Ángeles Ortiz, Alfonso de Olivares, María Blanchart or Ramón Gaya, said Cruz.

After them came the group 'El Paso', formed in 1957 by Rafael Canogar, Martín Chirino, Luis Feito, Jeanne French, Manolo Millares, Manuel Rivera, Antonio Saura, Pablo Serrano, Antonio Suarez and Manuel Viola.

The 60 are represented through different configurations, such as critical figuration Chronicle Team or Eduardo Arroyo and the "more traditional" Carmen Laffón.

Also included are other artists who developed their work in the 50 and 60 as Gerardo Rueda, Fernando Zobel, Gustavo Torner, Manuel Hernández Mompó, Eusebio Sempere and José Guerrero, the latter representative of American abstract expressionism in Spain.

The next generation of artists who took over from the new plastic making a defense of pictorial languages, is represented by works of Miquel Barceló, José Manuel Broto, José María Sicilia and Jaume Plensa.

Finally, the exhibition features the work of artists like John Uslé latest, José Manuel Ballester, José Ramón Amondarain, Esther Pizarro, Angel Mateo Charris, Eugenio Ampudia or Xavier Muñoz.

Source: CARM