"We will not speak about Picasso", the new project of the María José Jove Foundation

"We will not speak of Picasso" is the new exhibition of the María José Jove Foundation. It's a very ambitious and unique project through which 10 renowned artists reflect on 10 concepts present in the history of the universal art and on which “La modelo en el taller” work is based on. This work belongs to the Art Collection of the María José Jove Foundation.

Desire, the process of creation, memory, the passage of time, the perception of the space, privacy, the limits of the portrait, eroticism, the influence of the Spanish Baroque art and the concept of beauty make up the themes of the exhibition, which are addressed, respectively, by artists Elmgreen and Dragset, Liliana Porter, Anselm Kiefer, Mateo maté, Ernesto Neto, Chiharu Shiota, Georg Baselitz, Louise Bourgeois, Juan Muñoz and Sofia Táboas.

It is important to point out that each work of this exhibition has its own identity, each piece around on itself and the artist decide the way to address the topic, as well as the type of relationship he wants to establish with the viewer through an autograph text accompanying each work. In fact, the only link between the works is that the ten topics addressed were extracted from the La modelo en el taller.

Curated by Marta García-Fajardo, director of the Art Collection of the María José Jove Foundation, the exhibition is composed of ten works, - in addition to La Modelo en el taller -. Four of them, already belong to the Art Collection María José Jove Foundation, while the other six have been created specifically for this exhibition.

Among the first ones, the Dix work by Georg Baselitz is about the portrait overreaching of its traditional functions; Avenzza, by Louise Bourgeois, deals with eroticism, in an dramatic manner; Am grunde der Moldau the work, by Anselm Kiefer, is about the memory as an entity in itself; and Sara Frente al espejo work, by Juan Muñoz, pays tribute once again to the masters of the past time and explores the grandeur of the Spanish Golden Age as a source of conscience and knowledge.

Meanwhile, artists who have created a work specifically for the exhibition, were given a specific topic foe they to create and develop a proposal according to their conceptual principles and their autonomous visual languages. In this way, the couple formed by Elmgreen and Dragset explored the concept of desire as a condition inherent in the human being.

Argentinean Liliana Porter talks about the process of the artistic creation, Spaniard Mateo Maté alludes to the passage of time, Ernesto Neto Brazil searches about environment perception and ambiguity of space, Japanese Chiharu Shiota created a work that explores in the intimacy of the artist and, finally, Mexican Sofía Táboas explores the always latent question of beauty. After the exhibition, all of these works will become part of the Art Collection María José Jove Foundation, favouring the consolidation of it within the panorama of independent private collecting and reaffirming the commitment to bring and show exceptional artistic offer in Galicia, in a permanent manner.

The exhibition will be seen Kiosco Alfonso at the La Coruña A from February 12 to April 19. With this exhibition, the María José Jove Foundation wishes to join the events planned by the City Hall on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of the first Picasso exhibition, which was held in 1895 at a downtown furniture store on Real de A Coruña street, a fact that has been declared as event of exceptional public interest.