EXPO // RESISTANCE & REBIRTH - SPANISH ART IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD // MAYORAL // PARIS

© Mayoral - Resistance and Rebirth: Spanish Art in the Postwar Period

Resistance and Rebirth: Spanish Art in the Postwar Period
from 20 Oct. to 20 Dec. 2025

Mayoral Gallery
36 Avenue Matignon
75008 Paris

https://galeriamayoral.com

At a time when history seems suspended and collective memory kidnapped by official silence, post-war Spanish art is offered not as a witness, but as a practice of material resistance and projection.

Informalism, with its wounded surfaces, its convulsed gestures and its raw material, becomes a subversive language that not only narrates trauma, but also opens cracks in the present time to imagine possible futures.

The works of Tàpies, Miró, Saura or Chillida do not constitute a style, but an attitude: gesture as memory, texture as an archive of pain and form as an anticipation of what has not yet been possible. In this context, abstraction is not evasion, but political inscription; it is not amnesia, but latent power.

This exhibition traces a geography of resistance that does not just look back, but raises questions about the capacity of art to build more just futures, from a past that still festeres. It is an invitation to inhabit the gap between wound and hope.