The Guggenheim Bilbao Museum presents ‘The Inverted Mirror: Art from the Collections of ‘La Caixa’ Foundation and MACBA’

Ernesto Neto (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1964)
Globulocell, 2001
Lycra tulle, polystyrene spheres, and sand
490 x 420 x 230 cm
Contemporary Art Collection ”la Caixa” Foundation

Miquel Barceló (Felanitx, Majorca, Spain, 1957)
White Table (La taula blanca ), 1989
Pigment, latex, and other elements on canvas
225 x 5 x 287.5 cm
MACBA Collection. Government of
Catalonia Art Fund. Former Salvador Riera Collection

Antoni Tàpies (Barcelona, Spain, 1923)
Two Black Crosses (Dues creus negres ), 1973
Mixed media on canvas
235 x 150 cm
Contemporary Art Collection ”la Caixa” Foundation

From January 31 to September 2, 2012, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is hosting The Inverted Mirror: Art from the Collections of “la Caixa” Foundation and MACBA, a superb selection of works belonging to two outstanding contemporary art collections that represent the most significant tendencies and movements spanning the second half of the twentieth century to the present, such as Dau al Set, the El Paso group, the Vancouver School and the Dusseldorf School. Throughout the Museum’s third floor, The Inverted Mirror offers visitors a tour of 93 works by 52 artists who worked with various media, especially photography, video and large-format sculpture. Curated by Álvaro Rodríguez Fominaya, Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the exhibition features photographs, paintings, publications, sculptures, installations and videos by 52 celebrated artists such as Antoni Tàpies, Sigmar Polke, Julian Schnabel, Jeff Wall, Martha Rosler, Michelangelo Pistolletto, Thomas Ruff, Gillian Wearing, Bruce Nauman, Andreas Gursky, Martín Chirino and Antonio Saura, among others.