Exhibition 'Wounded Militiaman: the rescue of an unsalvageable work'
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya · Barcelona
- From
- Thu 7
- May
- Until
- Thu 31
- December
Period Days Hours Prices Observations From 7 May to 30 September From Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 h to 20:00 h General admission: 12 € Combined: 20 € (MNAC + Poble Espanyol) Reduced rates 8.4 €: - Students - Student or school groups without prior reservation accompanied by teachers - Families (2 adults + 1 minor) - Large family card - Adult groups Bus Turístic and Barcelona City Tour, 20% discount Youth with Youth Card, 50% discount MNAC annual subscription: 18 € Articket: 38 € Free admission: - Under 16 - Over 65 - Unemployed persons with accreditation - Saturdays (from 15 h) - Accredited teachers - Student or school groups with prior reservation accompanied by teachers - ICOM members - First Sunday of the month - 15 February (Santa Eulàlia) - 18 May (International Museum Day) - 11 September (National Day) - 24 September (La Mercè) Basic admission: 2 € Grants access to the building, the viewpoint terraces and the self-guided visit to the building spaces The ticket is valid for two days within a month from the date of purchase Group visits must be arranged by phone Sunday and public holidays except 1 May from 10:00 h to 15:00 h Museum Night 2026: 16 May from 19.00 h to 01.00 h Free Admission Museum Night From 1 October to 31 December Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10:00 h to 18:00 h General admission: 12 € Combined: 20 € (MNAC + Poble Espanyol) Reduced rates 8.4 €: - Students - Student or school groups without prior reservation accompanied by teachers - Families (2 adults + 1 minor) - Large family card - Adult groups Bus Turístic and Barcelona City Tour, 20% discount Youth with Youth Card, 50% discount MNAC annual subscription: 18 € Articket: 38 € Free admission: - Under 16 - Over 65 - Unemployed persons with accreditation - Saturdays (from 15 h) - Accredited teachers - Student or school groups with prior reservation accompanied by teachers - ICOM members - First Sunday of the month - 15 February (Santa Eulàlia) - 18 May (International Museum Day) - 11 September (National Day) - 24 September (La Mercè) Basic admission: 2 € Grants access to the building, the viewpoint terraces and the self-guided visit to the building spaces The ticket is valid for two days within a month from the date of purchase Group visits must be arranged by phone Sunday and public holidays Closed 25 December from 10:00 h to 15:00 h
EntryGeneral admission: 12 € · Combined: 20 € (MNAC + Poble Espanyol) · Reduced fares 8.4 €: · MNAC annual subscription: 18 €
Where
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
C Mirador Palau Nacional, 6, el Poble-sec, Barcelona
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What's it about
Wounded Militiaman, by Francisco Mateos, is a propaganda painting conceived to denounce the cruelty of the Civil War and to exalt fraternity among soldiers. It was created in a context of urgency, with precarious means and reused materials, with the intention of participating in the Spanish Pavilion at the Republic for the 1937 International Exhibition, where Picasso's Guernica was also exhibited. However, since it returned from Paris in 1938, it has never been exhibited: during the Franco dictatorship, because it formed part of the silenced art of the defeated, and later, because it was already deeply deteriorated. Its deterioration is irreversible and progressive, and the losses it contains make it impossible to recover its original reading. Faced with this obstacle, we propose to recreate what it was like through images generated by artificial intelligence, with the aim of restoring, as far as possible, the expressive force of the message that the artist intended to convey. Francisco Mateos joined two of his paintings to construct a larger canvas in which to represent the Wounded Militiaman. This reuse, combined with the poverty of the materials used and a possible accelerated work, has favored certain chemical reactions that cause the continuous detachment of the paint. The deterioration it suffers cannot be remedied, and the losses cannot be restored without resorting to invention or the introduction of foreign material. For this reason, the work is displayed tilted and is kept under constant observation.
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