El deber de lo nuevo

The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid hosts a painting exhibition that sets works from the Colección de Arte Afundación against the museum's own holdings, with contemporary creators working in personal languages and with a strong visual impact.

The museum's first floor brings together a selection of works and contemporary artists who work with renewing languages, their own processes and a strong visual charge. The approach consists of crossing pieces from both collections to discover affinities in themes, in ways of representing and in creative resources, which makes it possible to establish unexpected connections between works of different provenance.

The route through the galleries offers a survey of some of the most relevant names on the current scene, with a gaze that reflects everyday life from very diverse fields. It is designed for enthusiasts of contemporary art and for those who want to see how different generations of creators from Madrid and Galicia converse in one and the same space.

The Colección de Arte Afundación holds more than five thousand works and is recognised as the largest private collection devoted to contemporary Galician art. Its holdings span from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first and include pieces by Spanish and Portuguese creators. In 2015 the Xunta de Galicia declared it a Bien de Interés Cultural.