WHAT HUMANITY?
FIGURATIONS IN THE POST-WAR PERIOD (1940-1966)

Joan Miró, Roberta González, Juana Francés, Lasar Segall, Oswaldo Guayasamín, Leon Golub, Francis Gruber, Antonio Saura, Manolo Millares, Jorge de Oteiza, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Zoran Music, Andrzej Wróblewski, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Inge Morath, Renato Guttusso, Germaine Richier and Bernard Buffet are among the selected 80 artists who, between 1940 and 1966, represented the human figure and a wounded, anguished humanity in the context of the consequences of the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War.

The exhibition highlights major concerns such as the disintegration of classical humanism or the construction of a new subjectivity through sorrow and hope. It also proposes a series of intriguing subjects such as the relationship between the body and consciousness, the possibility of heroism, the function of the grotesque, the image of the monster, the nostalgia of beauty or the communicative function of the face. Questions as well as moral and existential unease that are still valid today.