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Claude Monet. Los roquedos de Belle-Île, la Costa Salvaje / Belle-île rocks, the Sauvage Coast , 1886. Museo de Orsay, Paris. Donación de/ Donation by Gustave Caillebotte, 1894. © RMN-Grand Palais (Museo de Orsay). Foto: Hervé Lewandowski Before the Horizon Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona) Until 16th February 2014 The horizon is everywhere. It is quite anonymous, ever changing, a kind of basso continuo of our direct, but often distracted perception. In the hands of an artist, however, this changes. Artists notice things, both visible and not, and show them to us transformed, like scenes of a new consciousness. The horizon is not an exception, quite the opposite. In the hands of an artist, the horizon becomes a unique place, a presence that defies the task of representation and of the conceptualization of perception. The horizon, as a defining factor of Western vision since the invention of perspective, is also an objective reality and framework of perception as an optical phenomenon. It is a symbol of what we cannot reach, and of the knowledge we do not yet possess, and of the imagination we have not yet used. The title of the exhibition makes reference to Georges Didi-Huberman’s study Devant le temps (Before time), which supports a reconsideration of anachronism in art history. The erudite, controversial analysis Didi-Huberman makes of anachronism creates the theoretical framework (and also the flexibility) for an exhibition that is articulated as a series of conversations and anachronic dialogues between different representations of the horizon, from the 19 th century to now. The basic premise is that two or more works that question each other give a much greater result than their mere sum, or, as in our case, their mere commissioned encounter in the exhibition space. Martina Millà Art History Graduate Exhibition Commissioner 13