Goya. Lights and Shadows

Ricardo Fornesa, President of Honour of "la Caixa", and Plácido Arango, President of the Royal Board of Trustees of the Prado Museum, have presented at Caixaforum Barcelona the exhibition Goya. Lights and Shadows, the most complete retrospective to be devoted to the Spanish great master in Barcelona in more than three decades.

The show, which features 96 works — 27 oils, 44 drawings, 23 prints and 2 letters— and includes such outstanding works as The Dressed Maja, The Parasol, The Witches’ Flight and I am still learning, brings to Catalonia, for the first time in thirty-five years, a large and exquisite selection of works by Goya from the Prado Museum.

Through a chronological approach, the exhibition presents all Goya's different facets as an artist as well as the main periods in his career: from the early years, when his realism was contrasted with the over-refined Rococo style favoured by his contemporaries, to his most personal work, produced in Bordeaux during his final years, not forgetting the drama of the war with France, which marked a turning-point in his trajectory.

The exhibition is organised into fifteen sections. These independent spaces present brief visual narratives that explore many of the major themes that concerned Goya, as well as reflecting social circumstances during his life-time, in which the protagonists include kings and the wealthy, intellectuals and the
artist's own friends.

Date: until June 24.
Location: CaixaForum Barcelona Av. de Francesc Ferrer i Guàrdia, 6-8. 08038 Barcelona. Spain.
Opening hours: from Monday to Friday from 10am to 8pm. Saturdays and Sunday from 10am to 9pm.