The modern art of Spain shines in the united States – Terra Peru

The modern art of Spain shines in the united States in an ambitious exhibition that brings together almost one hundred works by about fifty artists and was opened to the public today at the Meadows Museum in Dallas (Texas).

it Is “the most comprehensive of the art modern Spanish has been shown in the united States,” said the organizers in a press release.

The works, which date from between 1915 and 1957, offered “a visual narrative captivating of the development and evolution of modern art, as expressed in the work of the creators of spain’s most important of the season”, said the note.

the work of the exhibition, entitled “Modern Spanish Art” (Modern Art in Spanish), from the Association Collection of Contemporary Art (CACA), was founded in 1987 by a group of Spanish companies , and the museum itself texan.

The exhibition, which can be visited until the 29th of January 2017, includes masterpieces by some of the great artists of modern spain’s most famous, among them Salvador Dalí, Juan Gris, Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso.

Also starring the shows creators that today enjoy international fame, but received little recognition in their time, such as Eduardo Chillida, Óscar Domínguez, Pablo Gargallo, Julio González, Antoni Tàpies, Joaquín TorresGarcía.

Other artists represented are Rafael Barradas, Leandre Cristòfol, Angel Ferrant, Alberto Sánchez, and José Guerrero, who influenced his contemporaries, both in the USA and in Spain.

“The TWENTIETH century was a fertile time for creative and if we look at the modern art in Spain. Or the Civil War or the franco regime stopped the creation of magnificent works of art in this period”, noted the director of the Meadows Museum, Mark Roglán.

“The exhibition, realized in collaboration with ACAC, review this important artistic period and reviewed artists and works that deserve a greater recognition and a more prominent place in the popular understanding of modern art”, he added Roglán.

The exhibition is divided into five sections that reflect the five sensitivities present in the modern artists in Spanish and highlight the links between different creators, while underlining their diversity of approaches to formal and conceptual.

“The Spanish artists who worked in the TWENTIETH century never ceased to transcend, and clear formal boundaries. Currently, his work does not support a categorization easy, because it combines dynamically-different styles, approaches and movements”, explained the curator of the exhibition Eugenio Mora.

“With this exhibition and the pioneering collaboration between the ACAC and the Meadows Museum, we are making possible an approach different to some of the most important works of modern art,” added Mora.

The Meadows Museum is the most important institution of the united States dedicated to the study and presentation of Spanish art.

In 1962, the entrepreneur and philanthropist from Dallas, Algur H. Meadows donated his private collection of paintings of Spanish at Southern Methodist University, along with funds to establish a museum.

The museum opened its doors to the public in 1965 and was the first step to fulfill the dream of Meadows to create “a small Prado in Texas.”

Currently, the Meadows houses one of the collections of Spanish art more comprehensive than exist outside of Spain and spanning from the tenth to the TWENTY-first century.

Since 2010, the museum of texas maintains a partnership with the National Museum of the Prado of Madrid, which includes the exchange of knowledge, exhibitions, works of art and other resources.