José María Yturralde. Grey Areas (group show)

With a contribution from Miquel Mont. Permanent collections of the Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo and the Naturgy Energy Group.

The exhibition Grey Areas was conceived by the artist Miquel Mont, who is also the subject of a major retrospective surveying his entire career in the rooms on the second floor of the museum. Grey Areas is a large-scale mural installation that provides a chromatic context for the display of pieces from the collection. It also presents a selection that gives us a perspective which sidesteps the media-driven nature of contemporary discourse, putting forward a way of seeing that can unravel the layers of meaning that come with time. 

The pieces selected are arranged across a gradation of grey, which the artist – guided by his knowledge of colour theory, the history of painting and contemporary thought – places within the realm of “value”, of its capacity to determine, either through its neutrality or via the strength of its voice. The colour grey has numerous different interpretations: it is a colour of great significance in the history of modern painting, from Cézanne and Klee to the most radically contemporary artists; it reveals the position one holds depending on the issues at hand. Grey can be the colour of taking a stand, but also the colour of indifference. Mont has written a moving essay on this subject that takes on the status of a work of art in its own right, as it is a radical and innovative discourse.

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