On Thursday, 18 June, we opened the Museum of Art’s new temporary exhibition, dedicated to Concha Ibáñez (Canet de Mar, 1926 – Barcelona, 2022). This is the first exhibition in Catalonia devoted to the artist since her death, and it coincides with the centenary of her birth. Rather than presenting a retrospective, the exhibition focuses on the subject for which the artist is best known and to which she devoted the greatest part of her career: landscape.
The opening event, attended by around one hundred people, featured speeches by Carme Clusellas, Director of the Girona Museum of Art; Elina Norandi, curator of the exhibition; and Isabel Bernal, Director of the Girona Territorial Services of the Department of Culture. The event also included a reading by Núria Delofeu of a selection of reviews published between the 1960s and the 2000s about the work and legacy of Concha Ibáñez.
For the first time, visitors have the opportunity to see a significant selection of the artist’s best-known landscape series, together with some of the most representative works from her other series. These are landscapes painted from memories of places she had seen and visited during her many travels.
The exhibition will be on view at the Girona Museum of Art until 10 January 2027.
Activities related to the exhibition:
-Guided tour and Nykiteri’s cocktail in the Museum gardens
-Evoking Girona! Family painting workshop
-Exhibition catalogue presentation
-Round table discussion on the exhibition with Juan Carlos Bejarano, Lluïsa Faxedas and Maria Garganté. Moderated by Elina Norandi.
-Guided tour with Elina Norandi, curator of the exhibition
