Until next 12 April, CaixaForum Madrid (Paseo del Prado, 36) presents the exhibition Unfocused. Another vision of art, a collaboration with the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris that explores the technique of blurring in art, especially contemporary.
CaixaForum Madrid explores the poetry of blur as an aesthetic choice and key to interpretation in modern and contemporary art. Taking Monet’s water lilies as a starting point, the exhibition brings together 72 works by great artists, mostly contemporary.
The show is part of Monet’s Water Lilies series and how the artist introduced the concept of blur into art, blurring and imprecise as expressive elements. This exhibition explores how this phenomenon represented a new way of representing and understanding the world for later artists, especially from 1945 to today. It has works by artists such as Alberto Giacometti, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Eva Nielsens, Claude Monet, Thomas Ruff, Alfredo Jaar, Soledad Sevilla, Christian Boltanski, Hans Haacke, Julia Margaret Cameron, Mame-Diarra Niang, Nan Goldin, Bill Viola and Pippilotti Rist, among many others.