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The Municipal Exhibition Hall presents ALTRES, an exhibition that revisits a singular episode in the recent history of Valencian art. It recovers "Els altres 75 anys de pintura valenciana", a counter-exhibition organized in 1976 by artists from the Col·lectiu de Pintors del País Valencià as a critical response to "75 anys de pintura valenciana", held the previous year, in 1975, in the same city hall venue. Using that event as a case study, the exhibition brings together works, documents, and artistic trajectories that reveal some of the tensions that shaped the period. Five historic paintings made by the collective for the counter-exhibition and now recovered are shown in dialogue with three works by Sorolla, Pinazo, and Fillol from the official 1975 exhibition, setting up a confrontation around representation, cultural legitimacy, and collective organization. The exhibition opens with a room that situates the historical context, showing what the most representative and the most contemporary Valencian artists were creating at the time. It includes works by Juana Francés, a pioneer of the Spanish avant-garde; Javier Calvo, represented by Rectángulos verdes; Jordi Teixidor, with Dos triángulos con azul; and also Hernández Mompó, Artur Heras, Rosa Torres, Antoni Miró, Anzo, Arcadi Blasco, and Juan Genovés, among others who played a decisive role in the artistic renewal of Valencia in the 1960s and 1970s. Another room compares "75 anys de pintura valenciana" with the works of the Col·lectiu de Pintors del País Valencià. A further section is devoted to documentation and press coverage, highlighting the public significance of an exhibition that lasted only five days. The final space presents recorded testimony from some of the artists and gallery owners involved in the event, together with contributions from art and culture professionals including Pablo González Tornel, Marta López Ricarte, Lydia Frasquet, José Martí Martínez, and Ramón Esteve, among others.