Grayscale brings together a series of works from the Fundación Caja Mediterráneo Collection, deposited in this Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante, which share a common reflection on matter and its physical presence while consciously abandoning color and sometimes, form. Color in art history is as important as its negation, and the conscious declaration of its absence has been equally revolutionary thought. Although the choice of color is always a chemical process, its meaning has varied according to the era. Black and white. The negation of color or the sum of all. Two chromatic values that give rise between them to an infinite scale of degrees of luminosity. From light to darkness: the Grayscale. An ordered and gradual system of percentage of black over white that leads to light, medium, and dark gray, and to an endless range of intermediate grays.

From different perspectives and through various techniques, the exhibited artists have given material a substantial role in the aesthetic and conceptual debate of their works. They have chosen highly varied textures: Steel, lead, titanium, glass, iron, aluminum, asbestos cement, mirror or ceramic and graphite, paper, linen or wood. Matter becomes conscious and its presence is reclaimed. In the same way as sound. The physical properties of each element turn sculptures, photographs, films, paintings and drawings into complex works that reflect the intense relationship that has been produced between the artist and matter. 

A display of subtle chromatic balances, of cracks of clarity through which time escapes while the echoes of our presence sound in the room, literally.