Name: Primitive and Earthy Exhibitions in Malaga
Start: 2026-01-01T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-03-01T20:00:00+01:00
Location: malaga

Primitive and Earthy Exhibitions in Malaga

Event details

Museo Carmen Thyssen, malaga, malaga

1 January 2026 until 1 March 2026

# Málaga

Primitive and Earthy Exhibitions in Malaga

This exhibition proposes a collective narrative through which to explore, via concepts as evocative as the telluric and the primitive, certain idiosyncratic keys of 20th-century Spanish art in its quest for its own avant-garde.

The desire for rupture and renewal of various trends since the 1930s, among which elective affinities can be recognized, stems from a common desire to redefine artistic language, reaching back to an ancestral, primordial, essential, or visceral origin of pictorial or sculptural expression, with forms that emerge from the earth and its elemental essences or from the freest imagination of a creator transformed into a demiurge.

The interest in geology, cave painting, and pure painting are presented here as the leitmotif of the plastic arts in Spain for much of the 20th century. From the pioneers of increasingly less realistic and canonical figurations in the years of the Republic and Spanish abstraction during Francoism, the discourse will thus explore the plastic research of numerous telluric and primitive artists who, whether in groups, within broader currents, or strictly individually, resorted to specific languages to reveal the essence of nature and art, and offer it as a new beginning for avant-garde artistic expression.

The exhibition presents a very fertile and eclectic imaginary, where expressions based on the atavistic, the gestural, the graphic, the dreamlike, or the organic are accommodated. Where the telluric is manifested in an art that, inspired by the forms, materials, and impulses of nature, proposes its own "natural creations," with unusual, original, and surprising aspects that transcend the real by far, and which challenge chronological history. And where the primitive is not merely an aesthetic exercise, and in no case within the tribal tradition of European avant-gardes, but a creative, almost ontological principle that pertains to our identity. Both act as driving forces of a powerful and fascinating art, defining a new idea of "the Spanish," through an earthy color palette, the sublimation of the material, or the intense expressiveness

Carmen Thyssen Museum Málaga

Plaza Carmen Thyssen (C/Compañía 10), 29008 Málaga
www.carmenthyssenmalaga.org

Regular Hours
Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM.
Closed on Mondays (except public holidays) The Museum is closed on December 25 and January 1.
Ticket office open until half an hour before closing.

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