From Picasso to Barceló. Spanish Sculpture of the 20th Century

This exhibition shows the development of Spanish sculpture throughout the twentieth century from the aesthetic breakaway of the first avant-garde trends to the present day, but it also takes a look at the links between drawing and sculpture, tracing the path followed from the emergence of an idea to its conversion into a three-dimensional object.

The chosen works are examples of the reformulation of sculpture based on avant-garde ideas that marked a shift away from traditional principles and procedures centred on three-dimensionality to a modern art in which works can lose their volume, their solidity, their mass. Sculpture also espoused the ideas of abstract painting, giving rise to a huge testing ground; over time and with the most recent techniques, this experimentation embraced fields such as installations and videos, enriching the finite form of the sculpture.

The collection features works by Manolo Hugué, Julio González, Pablo Gargallo, Pablo R. Picasso, Juan Gris, Joaquín Torres-García, Alberto Sánchez, Antoni Gaudí, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí, Oscar Domínguez, Ángel Ferrant, Eugenio Granell, Jorge Oteiza, Eduardo Chillida, Martín Chirino, Andreu Alfaro, Pablo Palazuelo, Antonio López, Julio López Hernández, Antoni Tàpies, Eduardo Arroyo, Susana Solano, Ajume Plensa, Juan Muñoz, Miquel Navarro, Adolfo Schlosser, Francisco Leiro, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Eva Lootz, Víctor Mira and Miquel Barceló.