The exhibition places the works of Julio González (Barcelona, 1876 - Paris, 1942) right at the centre of the aesthetic, political and social debate of his time, seeking to generate a discourse in which all such aspects come together using the artwork and documents that the IVAM has about him and other Avant-garde artists.

The cartoonist Paco Roca (Valencia, 1969), National Comic Award in 2008 for his graphic novel Arrugas (2007), has developed a specific project for gallery 6 of the IVAM. A bet that analyzes and expands the expressive possibilities of comics as an artistic discipline, ...

This new look at the IVAM Collection will set out from one of its central nuclei, Pop Art, especially British Pop Art and the Spanish forms of realism, in order to expand the concept of realism to which they were related.

Of a documentary nature and related to the exhibition Times of upheaval, the show finds matter and memory connections in the works of three Valencian writers, Max Aub (Paris, 1903-Mexico City, 1972), Eduardo Hervás (Valencia, 1950-1972) and Rafael Chirbes (Tavernes de la Valldigna, Valencia, 1949-2015).

The IVAM (Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno) opened in 1989. It was the first modern and contemporary art museum project fostered in Spain following the country’s devolution and the need to acknowledge and promote art and culture.

The project created for the façade of the IVAM by Soledad Sevilla (Valencia, 1944) is based on a persistent memory from her teenage years in Valencia: the geometric tiles that cover the wall of the cloister at The Patriarch's Church (Iglesia del Patriarca).

Ignacio Pinazo (Valencia, 1849 – Godella, 1916) opened up a new field for the treatment of naturalism, light and investigation.