Room 7

Vision occupies a central place in our existence in this series of projections we call reality. Projecting ourselves in nature, in the contemplation thereof, is a fact as incontestable as it is timeless. If seeing is getting to know, studying, analysing and feeling nature are paths that human beings have never ceased to take for the sake of self-knowledge (among other purposes).

La vista XXVI, 1974, by Fernando Zóbel, opens up this first approach to the concept of landscapes, highlighting precisely one of its most defining and least taken into account features: the point of view from which the work is reflected. Just four straight lines, particularly two vertical ones, fix the action of the man as a counterpoint to the evanescent magic of the stains.

Las cuatro estaciones, 1980, are a true paradigm of Eusebio Sempere's career and are, without a doubt, his best-known and most copied theme. The cyclical and seasonal temporality of this magnificent set of works goes without saying.

Vanitas, produced in 2018 by Pablo Capitán del Río, contains an evocative reference to the spatial-temporal transformations of things.

La princesa y el dragon, by Gustavo Torner, is a 1989 sculpture that raises the congenital polarity of our nature. The transparent methacrylate plane is the element that joins and separates the two extremes between which we inevitably fluctuate.

Minéralogie Visionnaire III, by Lluis Hortalà, a work from 2012, is equally impressive and enigmatic. The more you focus your eyes and attention, what the work before you represents becomes less clear. A geological fissure? The corner of the lips? We don´t know if we are facing a micro or macro vision, if we are facing a figurative representation or the direct presentation of a piece of fiction. The magic of the illusion is served.

This room ends with Medicane (Xishuangbanna) (2019), a work by Martín Llavaneras: a unique bas-relief halfway between sculptural, pictorial and graphic works. The marked sedimentary nature “petrifies” the organic plant elements and takes us back to long gone phases with astonishing up-to-dateness.