Even though painting and moving image art do not represent space and time in the same way, in a significant part of the video production process, that has occurred from the origins of this medium until the present, emerges the 'pictorial unconscious' that becomes the principal leitmotif of this exhibition.

Illumination, color, composition, iconography or staging inform us of a shared vocabulary between both mediums that are extremely interrelated in the works of current video artists in the Sorigué Collection, such as Bill Viola, William Kentridge, Marco Brambilla, Mat Collishaw, Jacco Olivier, Ger Van Elk, Marina Alexeeva or Elisa Sighicelli & Marzia Migliora, whose video creations establish a retroactive dialogue with some of the most esteemed works in the collections of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.

The film director Eric Rohmer put it very bluntly: “All organization of forms in the interior of a flat surface stems from pictorial art" and Nam June Paik, one of the pioneers of video art, expressed it in a comparable way: “In the same way that a collage has substituted oil painting, the cathode ray tube will replace the canvas".

In The pictorial unconscious, the video creations establish a retroactive dialogue with some of the most esteemed works in the collection of the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya.

• Included with the regular ticket of the museum or with the accreditation of Loop Barcelona 2015
• Project by F. Javier Panera Cuevas
• From 28/05/2015 to 30/08/2015
• Exhibition leaflet pdf - 1,25 Mb