The National Museum of Ceramics and Sumptuary Arts ‘González Martí’, a state-owned museum of the Ministry of Culture, presents the anthological exhibition ‘Luis Massoni. The memory of art’.
The work of Luis Massoni (Valencia, 1944), considered one of the contemporary Spanish masters of portraiture that links with the figurative tradition, has not been exhibited in Valencia for 25 years. The exhibition is, thus, the most complete approach to date to the work of a singular artist, who has developed his career away from fashions and isms. The exhibition reviews the evolutionary stages and the different aesthetic approaches of an unusual author on the artistic scene.
The exhibition offers an update on the work of the painter who has not exhibited in Valencia since 1999. For this, more than a hundred works by the artist from all his stages have been selected and are organized in six thematic spaces. One of the rooms is dedicated to magical realism, a trend of which Massoni is a notable pioneer in Spain.
The exhibition presents 75 unpublished works for the Valencian public that reveal the image of a painter, known especially for his role as a portraitist, but who has known how to tackle all genres. Some of these works have been exhibited in Bilbao, Pamplona, ??Barcelona and Madrid, but it will be the first time they are shown in Valencia.
The curators of the exhibition are Alfons García and Santiago Relanzón, who together with Luis Massoni, have selected the 130 works that make up this anthological tour and that have traveled from different parts of Spain.
The exhibition can be visited in Valencia from March 8 to June 16, 2024.
