The exhibition ‘Goya-Neither more nor less’, which opens the Niemeyer Center on June 20, includes among the works that can be seen a preparatory sketch of the Aragonese painter’s painting ‘Two of May 1808’, best known … like ‘The Burden of the Mamelukes’. The work has been loaned by the Goya Museum-Ibercaja Collection, in Zaragoza.
As explained by the museum itself, in this painting Goya reflected “the drama and tension of the events” of one of the events of the uprising against the French by executing the figures “with quick, accurate and expressive brushstrokes.” They also point out that between the sketch that will be seen in Avilés and the final painting there are differences, among which those that stand out are those in “the figure of the French soldier who lies dead on the ground, in the man who harasses the horse with a whip , in the mameluk who is on horseback in the center wielding a cutlass or that one of the mameluks has become a French cuirassier in the final painting,” they explain.
The exhibition ‘Goya-Neither more nor less’, produced by the Niemeyer Center and curated by María Toral, can be seen in the dome until September 22. It brings together pieces from the aforementioned Zaragoza museum, the Reina Sofía and private collections and in it, Goya’s works dialogue with those of twenty-four national and international artists such as Pablo Picasso, Fernando Botero, Gutiérrez Solana, Paula Rego, Salvador Dalí, Juan Genovés, Ignacio Zuloaga, Amalia Avia, Jake Chapman, Cristobal Toral, Cindy Sherman, Manuel Millares or Antonio Saura, among others.
For María Toral, “Master Goya was a revolutionary who established a new concept of art, he was also an artist who witnessed his time, with whom social vicissitudes reached the rank of protagonists in artistic works” and all of this will be reflected in this exhibition.
Admission to the exhibition will cost four euros. And, in addition, the Niemeyer has programmed for this exhibition with the company Cuéntame un Cuadro what it has called ‘Art Routes’. They are guided tours, priced at ten euros, which will take place on Sundays June 23, July 14 and 28, August 11 and 25, and September 8 and 22, starting at 11:30 a.m. and lasting 45 minutes.
