The Presence of Black (1950-1966)

Organized by the Centro José Guerrero from Granada to commemorate the centenary of the birth of José Guerrero (Granada, 1914 – Barcelona, 1991), this exhibition is the first in-depth, monographic approach to what we may call the painter’s American years, which had the most decisive influence on his career. The exhibition begins with his first experiments with abstraction in the etchings and “portable frescoes” he made in the early fifties, which reveal a painter deeply interested in the possibilities of combining painting and architecture. The exhibition continues with Guerrero’s subsequent complete integration into American Abstract Expressionism in the mid-fifties, and concludes with the reencounter with his Spanish memory and return to his native country in 1965.