Feliu Elias. Reality as an Obsession

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Image courtesy of MNAC

This exhibition focuses on one of the protagonists of the museum's modern art collection to find out all about his contradictory and dogmatic personality, in the light of the unpublished information that has appeared in different archives and the contextualization of his work in the field of interwar European art.

Feliu Elias (Barcelona, 1878-1948) is a multifaceted personality in which the painter Elias coexists with the cartoonist Apa, the art historian and critic Joan Sacs and even the “Green Demon,” another of his aliases when he signs articles on the technique and trades of painting.

The exhibition shows the life itinerary in relation to the artist's artistic travels and exiles. It also brings together some of the objects that were part of Elias' collection (glass, ceramics, oriental objects, etc.) captured by his brushes and presented in dialogue through a sequence structured in thematic sections: still lifes, interiors and portraits. Finally, the "collisions" between the critic Joan Sacs and the avant-garde will be explored.

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