until Monday April 13 2015

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
T : +91 774 10 00
Santa Isabel, 52
28012 Madrid
Spain

This exhibition represents an approach to the work of Mathias Goeritz (Danzig, 1915 – Mexico City, 1990), produced after he settled in Mexico in 1949.

In his theoretical and practical output, spanning four decades, rational utopia and Neo-primitivism converge, factors that stem from his own biography: his journey through different cities in Europe and North Africa (1948), his stint in Spain, and his participation in the preliminaries to the Primera Semana de Arte in Santillana del Mar (September 1949), as well as his contact with Mexican culture.

The work on show employs the principle of “emotional architecture” as the theme to build upon and articulate its exhibition discourse. Formulated by Mathias Goeritz in 1954, this principle became the dynamic core and theoretical and aesthetic basis of his work, appealing to the need to envisage spaces, works and objects that cause maximum emotion in modern man, as opposed to functionalism, aestheticism and individual authorship.