PAINTING. A Permanent Challenge

At the beginning of the 20th century, painting abandoned its referential function, going from being a window to the world to being an idea, an intellectual representation that constituted an autonomous visual reality. In this process, painting has sparked important debates, been a source of inspiration and confrontation, and marked the starting point for numerous contemporary artistic trends.

This exhibition explores painting as a mental process, an abstract idea that expands from the canvas to other media such as photography, sculpture, printmaking, and installation. It is the idea of the pictorial, which incorporates a changed understanding of painting captured between the intellectual concept and the sensuality of the material. “Painting: A Permanent Challenge” brings together works by artists who renewed painting in the 1960s and 1970s alongside those of a younger generation that has expanded the boundaries of this discipline, reinventing new forms of production and presentation.

The exhibition features more than forty works, including those of Robert Ryman, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Wolfgang Tillmans, Robert Mangold, Angela de la Cruz, Ruben Guerrero, Günther Förg, Jessica Stockholder, Juan Uslé, and Richard Tuttle.