Exhibition at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza from February 27 to June 2, 2024. Isabel Quintanilla has not yet received the recognition she deserves as one of the great figures of Spanish painting of the second half of the 20th century. Since the 1970s, her work has been frequently exhibited in various German cities and acquired by museums and collectors in that country, which has prevented her from becoming better known in Spain. Half of this exhibition, reflected in this catalog, is this recovered production. The curator and author, Leticia de Cos, has constructed an artistic and vital itinerary through Quintanilla's pictorial genres and themes. Her still lifes combine classical forms with very contemporary objects, such as the Duralex glass, the telephone, or the sewing machine (with which the artist's mother supported the family), evoking an era and a country. Quintanilla is a painter of lived reality, and much of her work deals with the spaces she inhabited: the bedroom, the kitchen, the bathroom, the sewing corner, and the artist's studio. Although almost always devoid of figures, these interiors are full of the presence of the people in her life, her husband and her son. Everything exudes intimacy: the windows that receive light from outside and the doors that lead us even deeper into the interior.
An interlude in the tour is dedicated to Isabel Quintanilla's female colleagues and friends: the three painters who were part of the Madrid realists group: Esperanza Parada, Amalia Avia, and María Moreno. Next, we delve into landscape and city, the rural horizon and urban views. And the tour concludes with those intermediate spaces, the patios and gardens, so recurrent and characteristic of the Madrid painter. One of the most valuable contributions of the curator's essay in the catalog is the insertion of Quintanilla into the history of European painting. From the frescoes of Pompeii to the courtyards of Pieter de Hooch and the interiors of Samuel van Hoogstraten, passing through the mysterious rooms of Vilhelm Hammershøi or the landscapes of Aureliano de Beruete.
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