The MAC opens ‘Look at me! Portraits and other fictions’ from the “la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection
The exhibition, which will be open to the general public until 30 September, offers a selection of forty of the best-known works by leading artists from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection.
It explores portraiture, one of art’s most traditional genres, through various disciplines: paintings, photographs, sculptures and videos, drawings and installations, from the 1980s to the present day.
The Gas Natural Fenosa Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) and ”la Caixa” Welfare Projects have officially opened Look at me! Portraits and other fictions from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection, an exhibition showing 40 of the best-known works by leading artists in the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection. The exhibition explores portraiture, one of art’s most traditional genres, through various works from our era: paintings, photographs, sculptures and videos, drawings and installations that make up the diverse approaches that characterise art today and that invite viewers to reflect on the social space of the portraits.
This selection illustrates the cross-cutting method of ”la Caixa”’s Contemporary Art Collection, which starts in the 1980s and stretches to the young creators of today; a group of artists spanning every nationality, style and trend: Ana Laura Aláez, Janine Antoni, Juan Navarro Baldeweg, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Christian Boltanski, Victoria Civera, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Esther Ferrer, Günther Förg, Curro González, Stefan Hablützel, Roni Horn, Sharon Lockhart, Pedro Mora, Vik Muniz, Óscar Muñoz, Bruce Nauman, Carlos Pazos, Cindy Sherman, Antoni Tàpies, Gillian Wearing and Sue Williams. Look at me! is divided into four sections that arrange the works according to their conceptual affinities: Emotion on stage, Identity conventions, Memory of the face, and Masks and other fictions. Rather than a portrait gallery, it has been conceived as a maze of looks that question how we see and construct ourselves.
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