Queen Sofia rises three sculptures to her terrace to “mute” with sunlight throughout the day

Reina Sofía Museum Upload three sculptures of Jesús Rafael Soto, Martín Chirino and Edgar Negret “ Before shown in your rooms– to the terraces of the Nouvel building which reopens after its rearrangement transformed into a new exhibition space that will host part of the Pinacoteca collection.

“With this exterior room it is about providing content from the museum where there was no artistic content. These spaces will change over time, because Soto’s piece shines by the light but in the afternoon there is a sunset and depending on the environment these pieces mutan“The director of Reina Sofía, Manuel Segade, explained during the presentation of the works and space.

Specifically, the three pieces belong to the geometric sculpture collection of the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century of the museum. “If there are no spectators who activate them, that move around them and relate their bodies with themThere are no those pieces. That is already an aesthetic revolution, “Segade added.

So, ‘A different order. Utopian geometry and kinetic art on the terraces of Nouvel ‘ Try to establish a “new order” in terms of sculpture, and fill the city with works that move away from commemorative pieces.

“It has absolutely nothing to do with the commemorative sculptures in pedestals to which we were accustomed in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, “ He has pointed out.

One of these sculptures is ‘Mediterranean (10), 1971’of the Canary Martín Chirinoa piece of polished stainless steel sheet and welding. Chirino, according to the museum, rejected the realistic aesthetics of Franco in favor of a “new materiality.”

“It is quite representative of this moment of Chirino, from the early 1970s, In which he starts working on horizons, but they also have to do with tradition (…) In the late 60s and early 70s, he spends a lot of time in Italy and Greece, he permeates that Mediterranean culture. Especially in female and curves and begins to develop this sculpture, which he considers that he has a certain eroticism, “Segade said.

On the other hand, Queen Sofia exposes ‘Red Vigilante, 1979’of the Colombian Edgar Negret, A piece of painted aluminum sheet that had never been exposed because it has been located in the European Court of Accounts, in Luxembourg, as a temporary deposit since 2015.

Finally, visitors who come to the terrace-access is free-can see a sculpture of the Venezuelan Jesús Rafael Soto, ‘Penetrable, 1982’a montage of flexible PVC tubes through which the viewer can pass and move.

“They are very important pieces precisely in the evolution of public participation in contemporary art because they are pieces made to be absolutely crossed. They function as a penetrable that we can cross, we can decide how we travel and that are made to be intervened by the different audiences. It can only be enjoyed once someone is going through it and that it coexists with them“Segade concluded.