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Description\nThe Museo Patio Herreriano hosts from today Wednesday the exhibition of the mural \"DANZA LUNAR\" by artist Luis Vasallo, which is a quotation of a painting from the Museum's own collection titled Bailarines (1932) by Benjamín Palencia.\n\nIn the mural one can see a desert and some figures offering their dance to the moon and the stars. The composition is closed by a palm tree and its shadow. The scene is frozen in time, just as in a Buzzati plain, but careful, in this plain (the one that concerns us) there is no anxiety or weariness, only celebration. Time is frozen, yes, but this suspension speaks of memory, speaks of a recollection and of how we perceive it, or rather, how we feel it. And now you will say—very well, but what is being remembered? what is being celebrated?—. Well then, Palencia is being celebrated, Ferrant, Alberto and also of course Picasso, Klee and Hepworth.\n\nThe 1920s and 1930s are being celebrated, when the human figure and its representation were the point of support with which they tried to change the world. Sometimes close to surrealism and other times to a new plasticity of elemental forms, this generation managed to make a utopia be born from our body. To know this part of history is a way of knowing ourselves, of learning from our dreams and failures, it is not a merely nostalgic act, it is also a duty, the duty to celebrate ourselves.\n\nThis work by Luis Vassallo is framed within the LienzoMPH/TFAC program. A project dedicated to direct intervention by artists on the wall of the ground floor distributor of the Museo Patio Herreriano. It is sponsored by The Fine Art Collective (TFAC), an international support program for members of the artistic community, an initiative of the Fine Arts brands Winsor & Newton, Liquitex and Conté à Paris.\n\nTFAC will provide support for the project and a product prize to the artists. In the LienzoMPH/TFAC a spontaneous relationship with a transit space is sought, an area not conceived as an exhibition hall. In this place artists are invited to dialogue with the space through ephemeral interventions specifically made for it.\n\nThe Museum for this purpose cedes its spaces and specifically one of its walls so that artists intervene in it in an ephemeral manner and with total creative freedom leave testimony of the plasticity of their work, it is a living and dynamic project, open to reflection and debate about current art and open to interdisciplinarity and the mixture of languages with which art expresses itself in our day, painting, sculpture, engraving, drawing, photography, video, graphic work, installation, but using as a base the products provided by The Fine Art Collective: Winsor & Newton, Liquitex and Conté à Paris.\n\nLuis Vassallo\n\nFrom the project that Luis Vasallo presented, its close relationship with the Museum's collection was valued, the profound and emphatic study of it and of the Museum's own profile.\n\nThe \"bravery\" in presenting an unconventional artistic project for his generation, casting a direct gaze toward the historical avant-gardes very well represented in the Contemporary Art Collection, the collection of the Museo Patio Herreriano.\n\nIt may be viewed until April 2, the hours being Tuesday to Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.; Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. (uninterrupted); and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The hall remains closed on Mondays (except holidays), and Sunday afternoons.