Daring to go Further. Valencia before the normative art. 1947-1960

The title of the exhibition comes from one of the writings of the artist Manolo Gil, one of the most brilliant artists of the post-war generation of Spanish artists, whose work and theoretical postulates largely articulate the structure of the exhibition.

The exhibition is presented as an open-ended research that casts a fresh look at this historical period in Valencia from an interdisciplinary perspective and methodology, attentive to the social context and critical with a conception of art as an autonomous reality, separate from the world around it.

Thus, and through a selection of more than two hundred works by more than fifty artists (Manolo Gil, Jacinta Gil, Ángeles Ballester, Juan Genovés, Joaquín MIchavila, Vicente Castellano, Manuel Baeza, Peiró Coronado or Rosa Fagoaga, among others) and extensive documentation, the exhibition reviews the contributions of the various collectives and artists who led the renewal of the arts in Valencia during this period, also paying special attention to the changes in the arts of the Catholic Church, and the persistence and developments of the Modernism Movement in architecture, interior design, and mural art.