It’s Not Just A Portrait

The exhibition gathers a selection of works, all of them painted based in which the artists confront with different portraits, from the reflection of the self to the ones that can be found around.

The portrait has been always an important player in art, from the self-portraits made in antique Egypt, and the Middle Age to the Renaissance when it came to fame thanks to the large diffusion of the requests made by the royal families. It was somehow, a way to have a reminder for the future, to conserve a long-lasting photograph of a person but in a very unique manner. In every portrait, the artist has his own choices about what to show and how to position the subject, in most cases, if the subject is present, through the portrait we can know how the subject wanted to be depicted, or how the artist wanted to depict him/her.

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