History and Mystery of a Collection: MAC, is an exhibition that presents masterpieces from the Madrid Museum of Contemporary Art that reflect our most sacred memory in dialogue with perfectly contemporary expressions. In this discourse, works rooted in classical art coexist with others by emerging artists that have recently been added to the permanent collection.

Some of the works explore Madrid as a landscape, echoing its origins and its evolution until it became the metropolis it is today, a point of irradiation of a multitude of creative dimensions. The Vallecas School, the Realists of Madrid, the Pop of the Movida movement and the ARCO Fair all traverse the city visually.

Other works breathe in the gesture and geometry of movements that belong to our most characteristic abstraction, such as El Paso, the Expressionism inherited from the New York School, Equipo 57 or the movement that emerged at the Calculus Centre at the UCM. Enigma and History intertwine.

Curated by the Museum, the exhibition brings together all kinds of materials: painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and audiovisuals. (Mª Ángeles Salvador Durántez)