EXHIBITION. “Josep Renau and the time of images”

The opening hours to the public will be on weekends for the general public and during the week for arranged groups, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. To arrange group visits, you must write to the address reservavisitas@didacultural.com

Josep Renau and the time of images is presented with the aim of revisiting the poster work of this internationally renowned Valencian artist and proposing new lines of interpretation about the artistic medium to which he devoted a good part of his creative career.

The Valencian artist is remembered, above all, for his posters, executed with an innovative language and always attentive to the European avant-garde. That is why the title of the exhibition that is now presented alludes to the desire to approach his figure and context through the images he created under the discipline of posters. Therefore, Renau’s contribution to the social and political role of the image in the contemporary world through this medium is highlighted, as well as other areas dealt with by him, such as illustrations and book covers, fundamentally, in which he did not He was not only an innovator on an aesthetic level but also a technical one, with the use of the airbrush or photomontage.

The exhibition is made up of a set of some seventy posters, accompanied by more than thirty illustrations, book covers, hand guides and diverse graphic documentation, with which we want to offer a vision that is as complete and representative as possible not only of the Renaissance artistic career in this field, from its beginnings to the return to Valencia towards the end of his life, but also of its cultural value as a sample of a collective memory.

The exhibition, which has as its exhibition setting the Sala de Respect of the Palacio de los Scala de València, is largely nourished by the collections conserved by the Josep Renau Foundation, deposited in the IVAM, but also by other collaborating entities, to which We want to thank you for your selfless participation.