The IVAM has scheduled one of the most special exhibitions to mark Ignacio Pinazo Carmarlench’s (1849-1916) centenary death, as homage to one of its most brilliant artists.

The IVAM has incorporated a new line of artistic activity focusing on specific proposals by various artists which reinforce the museum’s programme of exhibitions by activating areas that have been considered merely functional.

The shift that took place in sculpture in the twentieth century was a response to the new narrative values that appeared in the visual arts and that incorporated advances in science and culture in their proposals.

This is the first exhibition of its kind that has been devoted to them by a Spanish institution. The two artists, both born in 1969, use various visual languages, concentrating their artistic practice on images and representations and the history of their native country, Lebanon, and on the fabrication of imaginaries and ...

From 1931, with the proclamation of the Second Republic, Josep Renau (1907-1982) surpasses his first artistic stage of influence Decó and begins a new period, in which he strengthens his socio-political commitment (in 1931 he joins the PCE ). Therefore, he evolves to avant-garde language.

The key point the artist Carmela García’s (Lanzarote, 1964) works is the double need to rethink and to change the world. To carry it out from a gender perspective is not just a simple way of projecting the need for another future; but it means, in the first instance, a vindication scenario of a different consideration of the feminine in the world.

The production of Robert Frank (Switzerland, 1924) is a continuous search that leads us to such a strategies accumulation playing with the image.

We live times of change, of transformation. These moments involve the transition from one state to another, and they are not free from uncertainty. As present travellers we build new realities, we know the origin place, but not necessarily the destination. Infinite transition is perhaps the arrival point.