The exhibition Through the Window came about as the result of a collaboration between Fundación [H]ARTE, Hospital Universitario Vithas Madrid Aravaca and BBVA in response to the recommendation from the WHO to include art within health systems, based on the conviction that it contributes substantially to the betterment of the health and well-being of the general population.

Showcasing 24 original prints from the BBVA Collection, this art project curated by BBVA proposes a conceptual journey, as if looking out through a window we could travel to a number of sometimes real sometimes imaginary places.

Each one of the pieces, distributed over three floors, takes a look at a different aspect of travelling: landscape, dreamlike settings, flying, transportation, evoked places, and windows looking onto abstract landscapes. As a whole, the show invites us on a journey, through the gaze of 18 artists, discovering the manifold figurative and abstract initiatives that define twentieth and twenty-first century Spanish art.

Through the Window opens with La espera (Waiting, 1982), by Amalia Avia (1930-2011), and other works exploring the notion of landscape from an abstract perspective based on the simplification of its constitutive elements. Here we can also see works by Albert Ràfols-Casamada (1923-2009), Joaquín Capa (1941), Miguel Ángel Campano (1948-2018), Manolo Quejido (1946), Josep Guinovart (1927-2007) and Jorge Abot (1941), which seem to open up to a dimension where form and colour produce non-figurative landscape views, making what we cannot see visible.

Antonio Lorenzo (1922-2009) and Abel Rasskin (1940) represent surreal worlds arising from the world of the imagination. Flying is suggested in the works by Juan Navarro Baldeweg (1939) and Josep Maria Riera i Aragó (1954). In the area dedicated to transportation and evoked places, we can find prints of means of transport and images allusive to destinations such as Japan, as well as a delicate print from 1991 by Amadeo Gabino (1922-2004).

The project is rounded off by a music playlist, accessible through the link, that complements the visual experience by adding an aural dimension to the sensorial journey.