"Marina Nuñez: Vanitas" Exhibition Catalog (Bilingual edition Spanish + English)

Text: Rocío de la Villa

Published by: Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

ISBN: 9788417173562

Softcover. 117 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm

Bilingual edition Spanish + English

 

This exhibition is the fourth installment of the annual Kora program at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, dedicated to Spanish artists who work from a gender perspective.

The fourth edition of the annual Kora program is dedicated to Marina Núñez, a great contemporary Spanish contemporary artist, who has worked from a gender perspective since her

beginnings. The fifteen pieces on display, some created especially for the exhibit, cover a wide range of media. Marina Núñez is pri- marily known as a creator of video art, but her deep pictorial roots are evident in this visit to a painting collection like the Thyssen. Some of the pieces have been installed in a gallery of Old Masters and establish very intense relationships with specific Renaissance paintings.

The exhibition clearly represents the metaphorical universe of the artist. It is marked by the polarity between the human body, espe- cially the female body, and Nature, as embodied in various works with flowers (Marina Núñez’s flowers coexist in our museum this spring with Georgia O’Keeffe’s). Between one pole and the other, all sorts of mergers and metamorphoses take place.