Una curaduría de Anabel Zunino, Director en Galería Zunino – Metals have fascinated artists from medieval illuminated manuscripts to 20th-century avant-gardes. This exhibition explores how gold and silver leaf transcend their decorative function to become expressive protagonists of contemporary pictorial language. In abstract works, these materials dialogue with textures and pigments, creating surfaces that capture and refract light, generating visual experiences that shift according to the viewer's perspective. Metals contribute a unique temporal dimension: their mutable brilliance transforms each contemplation into an unrepeatable encounter. Figurative painting reveals the alchemical soul of these materials. Gold and silver becomes liquid sunlight trapped in eternal waves or whispers secrets through floral petals that seem to breathe with metallic life. Against expansive metallic backgrounds, realistic motifs emerge like visions suspended between the tangible and the transcendent, creating a dialogue between the finite and the infinite. Conceptual art closes this journey, questioning the symbolic and economic value of these precious materials, transforming their traditionally associated opulence into critical reflection on contemporary art and society.