Madrid´s Prado Museum has created an awfully thought-provoking exhibition.
Curated by Miguel Ángel Blanco, the xhibition turns round artistic endeavors to disclose their hidden facet – fairly actually.
Aptly named On The Reverse and working till third March, the exhibition permits the customer to undertake “a journey that strikes past the floor of creative masterpieces to permit for the contemplation of a captivating actuality: the hidden facet of the murals, its reverse”.
Analysis on the museum collections, which embrace the whole photographic documentation, and the restoration duties carried out to get well the unique media have additionally contributed to unveiling representations, messages, proof, knowledge… contained on the again of artwork works, to which hardly any consideration had been paid.
This exhibition exhibits the secrets and techniques hidden on the B-side of the pictorial medium, whether or not it’s on board, canvas, steel or stone. The overwhelming majority of work have all the time been displayed hanging on a wall, so solely the artist and presumably the collector would know the secrets and techniques hidden on the reverse, that intimate and personal house that’s forbidden to the general public.
On the Reverse additionally contains loans from different museums together with Self-portrait as a Painter by Van Gogh from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Artist in his Studio by Rembrandt from the Museum of High quality Arts, Boston, and The empty Masks by Magritte from the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf.
Miguel Ángel Blanco, who has for many years merged the fields of Artwork and Nature and is accustomed to investigating the mysteries of matter and observing actuality from completely different angles, has devised this authentic proposal together with his open and inquisitive perspective. An exhibition that turns artistic endeavors round to advertise a brand new and extra full relationship between members of the general public and the artists who created the chosen works, via the surprises and revelations hidden on the again.
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