Structured into nine thematic segments, the exhibition charts the evolution of non-figurative art and its various trends from the 1950s to the late 1980s. Conceived chronologically, the route offers insights into four decades of creativity during which artists revisited the very foundations of painting in the wake of the war and envisioned new forms of expression. Using innovative techniques and materials, and inventing new tools helped them to emancipate themselves from a form of painting regarded as outdated. The interrogation of the world - and of the abyss to which the war had dragged them - involved a radical rethinking of painting, which serves as the leitmotif of this exhibition. The post-war years were thus a ground for constant experimentation by a generation that sought to cast the foundations for a new style of painting free of any shackles.