Room 17

The four paintings in this room share a similar attraction to compositional structures, the use of colour and restrained gestures.

Crecientes (serie amarillo), 1970, by José Guerrero, provides his personal synthesis of abstract expressionism and Pop art. The change in scale of an object as bland as a box of matches gives rise to the surprising result of an autonomous and vibrant composition.

This line of work also includes Tríptico azul, 1981, by Juan Suárez, and Camarín (serie “pinturas al agua”), 1982, by José Ramón Sierra, both artists belonging to the so-called “Seville abstract generation”. The two works feature a similar compositional structure, that of three vertical streets in predominantly blue colours. Gestural, material – more pictorial – in Suarez. Geometrising and graphic in the case of Sierra. And Gran Naranja, 2015, by Miguel Fructuoso, which features a very different compositional structure with an orange background and a series of thick black lines reminiscent of an abstract landscape.