ON THE REVERSE 11/7/2023 - 3/3/2024

Curator: Miguel Ángel Blanco

Until 3 March 2024 the Museo Nacional del Prado and Fundación AXA are undertaking a journey that moves beyond the surface of artistic masterpieces to allow for the contemplation of a fascinating reality: the hidden side of the work of art, its reverse.

Curated by artist Miguel Ángel Blanco, for the installation of the exhibition Rooms A and B of the Jerónimos Building have been painted black for the first time. On the Reverse takes the form of an open survey which gives maximum freedom to the spatial relationship between the works, devoid of any hierarchy or chronological ordering and including the presence of creations by contemporary artists such as Vik Muniz, Sophie Calle and Miguel Ángel Blanco himself, represented by three of his box-books from the “Library of the Forest”.

Taking his starting point from a contemplation of Las Meninas, in which the reverse of the vast canvas on which Velázquez is working occupies a large portion of the pictorial surface, the exhibition’s curator, contemporary artist Miguel Ángel Blanco, proposes an unusual approach to painting by turning the works around in order to encourage visitors to establish a new and more complete relationship with the artists who created the approximately 100 works on display. This exhibition has a soundtrack composed specifically for it: "Reverso", by Rufus T. Firefly.

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