Juan March Foundation and DKV present "A History of Recent Art (1960-2020) II"

Entitled A History of Recent Art (1960-2020) II, the Juan March Foundation and DKV present a joint exhibition that can be visited until July 9 at the Juan March Foundation Museum in Palma. The exhibition is built together from their respective collections, which can be seen in the Juan March Foundation Museum in Palma until July 9, 2022, after the closure of a parallel project in the Museum of 'Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca in January this year.

The exhibition is the result of the work of the teams of the two institutions on each of the two collections and aims to propose a history of recent art that includes from the second half of the last century to the first two decades. of the 21st century. A History of Recent Art (1960-2020) II rehearses a peculiar narrative exercise: he dares with yesterday and today, and he does so with the works of artists and in the same place where the witnesses to the history and history of art: in the museum.

It is a story of many possibilities, which aspires to be told with rigor and freedom in the real spaces of two museums from two different collections, with their particularities and their own character. For this reason, the curatorial team has worked with the works of the DKV collection, varied in form and practice and created by artists who belong to the 21st century, and with those of the collection of the Juan March Foundation, which are in "slow rotation" (the expression is by Fernando Zóbel) in the two museums of the institution in Cuenca and Palma, and which are basically paintings and sculptures of the generations active in our country from the sixties to the end of the century XX.

The project is not simply about juxtaposing works by different generations of artists, but about visually refining some of the recent art stories in our country, with their connections, continuities, novelties and ruptures, serious or ironic quotations. and historical and thematic disparities. The exhibition also shows the evolution that has taken place in the last seventy years from painting and sculpture to conceptual practices, installation, the dematerialization of the work of art, the multidisciplinary presence. and the advent and entry into the museum of the audiovisual and digital, to return to painting and sculpture.

In the exhibition, some eighty works from the museum’s collection will coexist with about a hundred works –painting, sculpture, drawings, video art and installations– selected from among the more than eight hundred that They are part of the DKV Collection, which began in 2007 and focuses mainly on artistic practices since the beginning of the new century. Works now by Salvador Dalí, Eduardo Chillida, Manolo Millares, Joan Miró, Pablo Palazuelo, Jorge Oteiza have been included both in Palma and previously in Cuenca, where he occupied the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art located in the Hanging Houses. Antonio Saura, Antoni Tàpies, Gustavo Torner, Fernando Zóbel, Elena Alonso, Lucía Bayón, Pablo Capitán del Río, Antonio Fernández Alvira, Karlos Gil, Laura González Cabrera, Cristina Mejías, Guillermo Mora, Tomás Pizá and Belén Rodríguez, among many other artists .