The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (IVAM) presents, from Thursday, April 25, 2024 to Sunday, February 16, 2025 on Floor -1 (in the Pinazo Room, where the newly restored medieval wall), The exhibition ‘Pinazo: identities‘.
The exhibition, which proposes a new reading of the work of Ignacio Pinazo, brings together 300 works by the artist, mostly from the IVAM collection. The exhibition presents Pinazo as an artist who dedicated a large part of his work to the representation of people in their individual, collective and genealogical dimensions, as transmitters, receivers and interpreters of identities.
Ignacio Pinazo Camarlench (Valencia, January 11, 1849 – Godella, October 18, 1916) was a Spanish painter of the impressionist style. For Pérez-Rojas, Pinazo’s virtuosity with techniques similar to impressionism seems to be due to his origins in a proletarian environment since in his youth he had worked in various trades, which, possibly, familiarized him with a more direct handling of materials and the forms. Some authors bring part of his work and his style closer to that of Goya.
Click here to read the complete biography of Ignacio Pinazo.
The proposal is materialized through the deployment of this approach throughout three areas in each of which representational problems intersect with different regimes of implicit temporalities, political contexts, ways of doing things and gestures.
In December 2021, a large exhibition by Pinazo with 357 works, many of them unpublished, was inaugurated in the Sala de la Muralla. In 2022, since June, the hall was closed to undertake rehabilitation works on the medieval wall, access improvements and the recovery of circularity, so the works had to be moved. Now, almost 2 years later, Pinazo’s work is being valued again.
In the first area, called Recognitions, the political concepts at play are that of differential/alterity, intersubjectivity and recognition (from the double meaning of who represents and who is the object of representation). The ways of doing, for their part, are those of inquiry, intention and knowledge, closely linked to the gestures of gaze, reflection and communication. Portraits and figure studies provide the works for this section.
In Anonymatos, the concepts of the social, the collective and the heteronomic politically support the ways of doing things based on play, immersion and chance, as well as the gestures inherent to walking, drifting and encounters that are never fully determined and translated into plastic gestures and compositional strategies. Representations of human groups, both in public and restricted spaces, are those chosen for this section.
In Ausencias, the political concepts of heritage, legacy and tradition establish here the network of interpretation proposed to embrace the recovery of archaeological ways of doing, based on processes of emptying and iteration, and combined, not always correlatively, with the gestures of the discovery, stoppage and registration/collection of fingerprints. This area of identities configured from genealogies is marked by the layout of rural landscapes.
The exhibition includes a selection of paintings and drawings by the Valencian artist, as well as photographs taken by the artist or from his personal archive and elements that contextualize the visitor’s visual story.
The bulk of the exhibition is made up of the IVAM Collection, with around 50 paintings and a hundred drawings, which are completed by works from the Pinazo House-Museum, the Academy of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia, the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia and other pieces from private Valencian collections. An important visual role is also proposed for some of the artist’s unpublished texts.
The IVAM is a museum located at 118 Guillem de Castro Street in Valencia. Click on IVAM Center Julio González – IVAM to see the schedules and prices (it only has free entry on Wednesdays from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and on Sundays all day from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
