The Fundación Caja Mediterráneo Collection is composed of 213 works of art. Painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, video, installations, digital techniques… that span the work of 126 essential artists in the contemporary Spanish art scene, from the democratic transition to the present day. The Collection is deposited in the MACA, thanks to the agreement signed by the City Council of Alicante and the Fundación Caja Mediterráneo.
The representation of landscape in painting constitutes a classical genre that originated in bourgeois Holland in the seventeenth century, immediately enjoying success. Landscapes educated or dominated by man, seascapes, panoramic vedute of the eighteenth century, sublime landscapes of romanticism, tormented, dreamed, existing or real…. Landscape has been a way of expressing man's position in the world. It is a genre so embedded in classical tradition that it reveals itself as one of the most fertile and productive fields of investigation in contemporary art. A genre laden with new meanings.
Landscape is not nature or the place that is observed but a cultural construction that requires interpretation. Landscape is constructed at the very moment it is observed. It only exists through sight and thought. And one must observe both the visible and the invisible.
Every Landscape is Fiction brings together a series of works that share the common thread of reflecting on landscape and its contemporary representation. A broad selection of artists who, from different perspectives and through various techniques, have given landscape a leading role in their works. Paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, installations and videos make up this exhibition as we interpret landscape subjectively, while generating social awareness, concern about human intervention, discovering the past, speaking of lived time, of the people who inhabited, of the memory of the place… all of this while we long for the lost paradise. More information in the full note