Exhibition: "Sensitive Planes. Abstract Painting from the Contemporary Art Collection of the "La Caixa" Foundation"

From October 4, 2011 to January 8, 2012 The works in this exhibition confront the viewer with the physical presence of painting. In its visible components—form, color, and line—lies all of its persuasive capacity. Its materiality is perceived as a visual event that emerges from the pictorial plane and acts as an energy that envelops the viewer and implicates them emotionally. In the twentieth century, painting freed itself from its imitative and representational function of the visible world and became a reality in itself. Abstraction led it to undertake a journey of exploration of the flat surface of the canvas and its physical properties, during which it stripped away everything that was not objective.