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This exhibition focuses on the analysis of a set of works from the Berardo Collection in which the artists have made free and creative use of line, form and colour, elements which are intrinsically linked to our lives, to all that we see, touch and feel and can be considered the main building blocks of abstract art since the beginning of the 20th century.

The onset of photography at the turn of the 19th century made all forms of naturalistic and imitative painting incongruous and led artists to debate, question and reject the concept of art. But the 20th century was not just limited to debating, questioning and rejecting the concept of art; it also concerned itself with defining it and redefining it, testing its possibilities through a profusion of styles and movements.

Based on four artists represented in the Berardo Collection – Malevich, Mondrian, Josef Albers and Ad Reinhardt – this exhibition aims to analyse abstract art, and the vast range of actions and expressive possibilities it gave rise to, through the tension that exists between its various branches (non-objective, non-figurative, absolute and concrete).