GOYA UNIVERSE. BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS.

As of February 27, 2025

From 10AM to 9PM

90'

An immersive exhibition where the lights and shadows of the genius take us to an exciting and convulsive world.

The exhibition reveals the lights and shadows of a genius, a reflection of his complex personality, his innate talent, his personal vicissitudes and his ambition to become the best and most influential painter of contemporaneity, in the context of a convulsive social and historical context.

A human and artistic portrait of the most universal painter in the history of art.

The exhibition “Goya Universe. Between Light and Darkness” aims to provide visitors with an immersive experience in its broadest sense. The exhibition resources aim to bring everyone closer to Goya’s world, both from a personal and human point of view as well as an artistic and historical one.

The period objects bring us closer to the way of life of the people of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are also installations of a more scenographic and technological nature, such as Godoy’s private room, which shows us how Charles IV’s prime minister observed the two “majas”, the clothed and the naked; or the videomapping that allows us to identify the human face of Goya, through his self-portraits, along with the portraits he made of the people around him.

The immersive room and virtual reality are the two final and most immersive installations, where images and music accompany us on the journey through the works and scenarios created by Goya and make us live them with all our senses.

The original intaglio Press. 18th Century

This press once belonged to Francisco de Goya and was housed at the Quinta del Sordo. Following the painter’s exile in France, it passed through the hands of several engraversof the time, notably Manuel Salvador Carmona, a burin artist and royal engraver whomGoya knew and admired.

In 1952, it was acquired by the painter and engraver Joan Barbarà, who, in 2008, created an engraving in Goya’s honour. Titled Aún aprendo (I Am Still Learning), afterone of Goya’s “Disasters”, it establishes a dialogue between tradition and modernity, paying tribute to the painter’s creative and restless spirit.

This press has been used to produce prints by artists such as Picasso, Josep Palau i Fabre, Antonio Saura and Antoni Tàpies.

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