Black and white: subject, space and perception

The exhibition "Black and White: Subject, Space and Perception" is an approach to the work of various artists who, in the Spanish sphere from the end of the post-war period to the present day, have approached plastic creation from monochromatic works in white or black to the construction of a space that is articulated around opposite or complementary dualities. Consequently, proposing an exhibition about color is to reflect on one of the central themes for contemporary creation. Among the successive vicissitudes that color underwent during the twentieth century, we observe how, from the Second World War to the present day, color underwent a continuous process that transformed it into a common and banal material within everyday life, which came to be mass-produced and standardized by commerce. In the artistic sphere its repercussions were no less significant, therefore, a certain number of artists formed a color palette far removed from any spiritual, intentional or significant will that, until then, the tradition of art had demanded.

This new presentation of the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Alicante, which is based on the Collection of the Chirivella Soriano Foundation, is structured in four areas: Prelude on White; Individual Isolation, Society; Destruction and Love; and finally, Harmony of Opposites.