Out of Focus. Another View of Art

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Out of Focus: Another Vision of Art

May 21 - September 27, 2026. Monet's Water Lilies series introduced the concept of blur in art, using the blurred and imprecise as expressive elements.

This exhibition explores how this phenomenon provided a new way of understanding the world for later artists, a key to reinterpreting some aspects of modern and contemporary art.

“A WORK THAT FORCES ONE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN SEVERAL POINTS OF VIEW, SINCE IT OFFERS NONE THAT IS FIXED OR SECURE.” GRÉGOIRE BOUILLIER, THE ORANGERY SYNDROME.

Long considered a paragon of abstract painting, this series has also been a precursor to large-scale immersive installations. However, the blurred and out-of-focus effect that characterizes the vast expanses of water on the canvases had never been analyzed and is now viewed as a genuine aesthetic choice.

Drawing on the aesthetic roots of blurring in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and following the intellectual, scientific, social, and artistic upheavals with which Impressionism grew, the exhibition is structured in sections that mix paintings, videos, photographs, and installations by different artists such as William Turner, Alberto Giacometti, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Eva Nielsen, Claude Monet, Thomas Ruff, Alfredo Jaar, Soledad Sevilla, Christian Boltanski, Mame-Diarra Niang, and Bill Viola, among others.