01 de Apr 1988 - 30 de Jun 1988
The presentation of José Moreno Villa's exhibition (1887-1955) at the Museo Nacional de Arte from April to June 1988 was particularly relevant, as the figure that marked the historic moment when Mexico opened its borders to receive a group of intellectuals and artists who drew, with their knowledge, the cultural profile of the liberal and progressive Spain of the 1940s. Within this historical environment, the presence of José Moreno Villa, with his versatile talent, left his mark as a poet, painter, draftsman, sculptor, art critic, and essayist, who as a Renaissance being, ventured into various disciplines with the desire to learn the essence of a contemporary man.
Throughout the exhibition, the visitor was able to enter the pictorial world of the artist who, with a set of forms, represents the real world, a game in which the figuration was allowed from the cubist tracing to the dreamlike sublimation into the surreal representation. To this capacity as a painter, mastery in drawing was combined, which could be seen in the magnificent collection kept by the National Library of Madrid, which contains excellent examples of his drawing work, with which he drew scenes from the real world, as well as in others, flaunted his art through arabesques with which he chose abstraction over figuration, full of fantasy and imagination.