After Barcelona’s La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Casa de Iberoamérica in Cadiz and UNAM’s Museum of Contemporary Art – MUAC in Mexico City, the exhibition Nueva Babilonia. Designar o no un trabajo como arte es una decisión táctica [New Babylon. Whether or Not to Appoint a Work as Art is a Tactical Decision], is now coming to A Coruña thanks to the Fundación Luis Seoane, where it will run until October.
The pieces that make up the collection on display have been carefully selected from the foundation archives, each of them a perfect example of the themes, techniques, formats and art practices with which Seoane built his own creative universe. The main purpose of the exhibition is to educate. It is suitable for those visitors that already know and admire his work –offering them a chance to rediscover pieces like the magnificent portrait of British actor Robert Atkins, dressed as his character of Caliban from Shakespeare’s The Tempest, that Seoane painted in 1949 during his London stay–, and for those that have only known Seoane as a painter and printmaker but are unaware of his other work, like his tapestries, book design or murals.