The French artist Gil J Wolman (1929–1995) was a pioneer in researching the intersection and alteration of visual and textual languages. This show, the first monographic exhibition of Wolman’s work ever held in Spain, consists of about 250 works and documents, from “L’Anticoncept” (1951) to “Voir de mémoire” (1995). It includes the artist’s most important and fertile pieces, some of them never before exhibited.

Wolman was an outstanding member of Lettrism, an artistic as well as intellectual movement of Dadaists and Futurists in the early 20th Century. The members were convinced that the expressive height of all artistic languages (poetry, music, painting and so forth) had already been reached. In order to initiate a new creative cycle, it was necessary, first and foremost, to go back to the beginnings, to deconstruct artistic languages. This meant a return to signs emptied of their semantic weight, that is, a return to letters.