The marvelous real - contemporary spanish and latin american art from the Musac collection (The Museum of Contemporary art Tokyo)

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Exhibited a collection Spain, Castile and León Museum of Contemporary Art, the exhibition of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo.

It is used in the flyer of the exhibition, in the building, photo of a man wearing a suit, is riding a white horse. Reminiscent to those in the image with the impact, want to go to this exhibition to see.

This is a video work called architecture, devoted of Fernandez Fernando Sanchez, a horse. White horse also this, run around and in the hallway, room in a beautiful building which was based on white.

At the university, when the students caused the opposition to the government, it is designed to make the cavalry get into campus, this building was built in the Franco dictatorship.

This work represents well the characteristics of this exhibition. In the countries of Latin America and Spain, many works, was content to criticize the dictatorship.

Innocent children of Jorge Pineda. White cloth is stretched on the wall, but from the bottom, only the foot of the girl facing the wall looking into.

Is going on in front of, to the oppression that can not be normal vision of dictatorship, to avert your eyes, which represents the girl who had holed up.

Goya painted a black picture, the misery war with France. Picasso was criticized on the big screen of black and white, bombing of Guernica to Hitler. Such tradition has been passed on to painters of the Spanish-surely even now.

Video work of Pilar Albarracin has parodied traditional flamenco of Spain.

The work called family of Enrique Marti, the wall full of exhibition space, photos of people looked like the family are arranged.

At first glance, it's pleasing impression, but a closer look well, you can look like a ghost, something strange is or not appear, expression of each person, come no longer a family photo just.

Represents lurking directly behind the everyday world, the world of darkness, it's a little scary work.

Today, the countries of Latin American and Hispanic and Spain, Brazil, Venezuela, and Chile, faces the harsh reality.

However, in these circumstances, artists take over the tradition of Spain realism, has been making,  with irony, laugh in particular, such a rich art work.