Paintings that look real: For more than 500 years, painters have devoted themselves to this task again and again. The exhibition Hyperreal. The Art of Trompe l'œil (Trompe-l'œil: Deceive the Eye) presents masterful examples from March 16 to May 22. At the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, visitors can trace the evolution from the Renaissance to the Baroque peak to the photorealistic painting of the 20th century.
Visitors can view different sections one after the other, arranged chronologically. Deceptively real still lifes in the Mise-en-scène section are followed by Fake walls: Planks and Partitions, then, among others, the Appeal to the senses section with real-looking paintings of sculptures and surprising photorealistic motifs of recent decades in The modern trompe-l'œil. The exhibition closes with a sculpture by Isidro Blasco developed especially for the show. The Spanish artist uses large-scale photographs as the starting point for his collage-like, shattered sculptures.
