The set under bidding, invites us to a fascinating journey through the Second Vanguards, culminating in the last fascinating journey through the Second Vanguards, culminating in the latest trends that have burst onto the market in recent decades. trends that have burst onto the market during the last decades. Artists of the Warhol, Keith Haring, Sol Lewitt, Sean Scully, Jean-Marc Bustamante and Tania Bruguera accompany us. Tania Bruguera accompany us on this tour.
Around the decade of the 1940s began a vibrant period in the history of art, whose imprint on the world of creativity has exerted a decisive influence on the future development of artistic practice. The Second Avant-Garde brought with it a new wave of innovation, rupture and transgression, which takes us on an exhilarating journey through a twentieth century that was absolutely tra nstructive. through an absolutely transformative twentieth century. The political and cultural crisis that shook Europe after the Second World War, the world’s artistic capital, which until then had been Paris, moved to Paris, moved to New York. However, the polarity between the two creative centers energized and encouraged the artistic practice of this fertile and intensely creative period. fertile and intensely creative period, in which different styles and movements followed one another at a frenetic pace. at a frenetic pace.
As the standard bearer of movements such as pop art, which revolutionized the traditional conception of what was considered a work of art, we cannot fail to mention Andy Warhol. The silkscreen print on tender, “Kiku”, made in 1983, is part of a very particular series by Warhol, as in it he departs from his most exploited and trivialized image by the media. “Kiku” is one of the artist’s most visually ugerent series, inspired by the Japanese chrysanthemum, a symbol of longevity, perfection and elegance in Japanese culture.
The 1980s also saw the emergence of a movement that, together with pop art, would become an icon of the culture of the time: street art. With Keith Haring and Andy Warhol as leading figures, both styles became an authentic cultural revolution that defined the society of an entire era. However, unlike Warhol, Haring took art to the social and political arena, committing himself to the problems of minorities. The work we present, with its characteristic schematic figures intertwined to form almost a single body, sends a message of supreme freedom, charged with fraternity, solidarity and optimism.
Likewise, the irruption of minimalism, with Sol Lewitt as one of its maximum exponents, agglutinates a mixture of diverse previous currents, whose ingredient of several previous currents, whose main ingredient is the postulates of Bauhaus and Russian constructivism. The postulates of Bauhaus and Russian constructivism. The gouache in tender is an example of the importance that Lewitt gave to the line, whose fluidity, freedom and playful sense become more evident in series such as Squiggly Brushstrokes and Wavy Lines.
As for the most current practices, we highlight the work of French artist Jean-Marc Bustamante, who, since his irruption in 1977 in the artistic context, has occupied a privileged place within European contemporary art. His work emerges from transitional spaces where the geometric and the organic, the industrial and the handcrafted, the cold and the warm merge to explore the and the warm merge to explore the limits of the pictorial.
Finally, as an example of the transgressive character that defines current artistic practice, we cannot forget Tania Bruguera, we cannot forget Tania Bruguera. The photograph of El peso de la culpa corresponds to a performance corresponds to a performance carried out on May 4, 1997 at her home in Old Havana. At this work, as in many others in her career, the Cuban artist examines the nature of political power structures and nature of political power structures and their impact on the most vulnerable groups in society. vulnerable groups of society.
Along with them, and as an expression of the creative diversity that has enriched the artistic practice of the last century, artists such as Joan artistic practice of the last century, artists such as Joan Miró, Antoni Clavé, Salvador Dalí, Loló Soldevilla, Pierre Gonnard, Ana Laura Aláez Antoni Clavé, Salvador Dalí, Loló Soldevilla, Pierre Gonnard, Ana Laura Aláez, Antonio López, Jaume Plensa, Sylvia Bachli and Jorge Galindo.
