Exhibition, Mirador del Carmen.
Credit: Ayuntamiento de Estepona.
Drawing Modernity is a collection from the Mapfre Foundation with an exhibition that presents a hundred works on paper by greats such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, Joan Miró, Auguste Rodin, Gustav Klimt and Joaquín Sorolla, to mention a few.
It offers a summary of the history of art from the first half of the twentieth century through drawings. Leyre Bozal, curator of the exhibition and curator of the collections of the Mapfre Foundation, has signalled that it works almost like a daily log that begins with drawings from the late nineteenth century and that advances chronologically through much of the twentieth century, showing the paths that led to modernity.
The sample is structured in three stages. The first of them begins with ‘the path towards that modernity from a more academic drawing style to an opening-up’ where we see the likes of Fortuny and Sorolla, for example.
Later, ‘the turn of the century’ arrives, with Rodin, who is already heading towards the avant-garde and the abstract, and where some artists have been included who were more advanced in the concept but who were not part of an avant-garde as such as Matisse.
Later, the avant-garde arrives, which, according to Bozal, ‘would be divided between cubism and surrealism’ and a third stage that would be after the Civil War that also affected art and culture.’
The exhibition can be visited for free until February 23 at the Mirador del Carmen in Estepona.
