Agoncillo, (EFE).- The exhibition “Animality. Animal Representations in the Würth Collection”, from the Würth Museum in La Rioja, includes 150 works by 85 artists, including Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró and Fernando Botero, to show “the animal metaphor” that “human beings have used to talk about many of the things he wanted to explain” through the beasts.
This is how the director of the Würth Museum of La Rioja, Silvia Linder, explains it on the occasion of the inauguration of this exhibition, which can be visited in this cultural space in La Rioja until February 18, 2024 after passing through the Würth Museums in Germany and France. .
Linder has explained that the whole of this exhibition has been made entirely with funds from the Würth collection and includes “different movements, artistic trends and techniques” from 1875 to 2020.
“Animality” speaks of “the animal condition, always in relation, precisely, with the human condition and with how humans, in some way, see themselves reflected in many of the actions of nature itself”, he has detailed.
In reality, art reflects how human beings have always looked at animals as “a mirror” in which to recognize themselves or in which to help themselves to understand the world; Furthermore, animals are “witnesses” to historical changes but they always retain a prominent role in myths, social symbols, popular wisdom and, as the exhibition proves, in art.
For this reason, the exhibition reviews “the development of the History of contemporary art in practically all its artistic manifestations: from the Academic Costumbrismo of the late 19th century to Contemporary Art, passing through the Classical Vanguards, Conceptual Art, Pop Art and the Neo-expressionism”, Linder has detailed.
This exhibition, he continued, “is guided throughout all its rooms by extracts taken from the essay ‘Why look at animals?’, by the British art historian John Berger” “which serves as a guide and guidelines to show and develop the exhibition through the rooms, which, on the other hand, are grouped by different sections”, he underlined.
A reflection on the climate emergency
One of the main sections of “Animality”, he continued, “deals with an important issue within the animal world, which has to do with the climate emergency and how the planet in which they all live affects humans and animals”.
For this reason, it has pointed out, under the sustainability guidelines of the Würth Group, in the exhibition and its graphic production the use of fully recycled or biodegradable materials has been sought.
“We start the exhibition with a spectacular work by a German artist Irmela Maier, which consists of a set of polar bear figures that speak, precisely, of this theme, and, from this room, we develop the tour of other sections of the exhibition who speak from the metaphor ”, has had an impact.
Linder has highlighted how the selection made for this exhibition includes “very varied artists with very different techniques, movements and ways of seeing” to show “how the same treatment (of the animal metaphor) has been captured through these plastic executions ”.
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