Out of Focus: Another Vision of Art Exhibition Out of Focus: Another Vision of Art

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September 17, 2025 - April 12, 2026

Monet's Water Lilies series introduced the concept of blurring into art, of the blurred and indistinct as expressive elements.

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

"A WORK THAT FORCES ONE TO CHOOSE BETWEEN SEVERAL POINTS OF VIEW, SINCE IT OFFERS NONE FIXED OR SECURE." GRÉGOIRE BOUILLIER, THE ORANGE GARDEN 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 Alberto Giacometti, Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko, Eva Nielsens, Claude Monet, Thomas Ruff, Alfredo Jaar, Soledad Sevilla, Christian Boltanski, Mame-Diarra Niang, and Bill Viola, among others.