Palau Ferré, in a single stroke
This year marks the birth of the painter, sculptor and ceramist Maties Palau Ferré (Montblanc, 1921-2000). The Museu d’Art de Girona, in collaboration with the Fundació Palau Ferré de Montblanc, is joining the Palau Ferré Year with an exhibition focused on one of the many facets of this multifaceted artist: that of a draftsman. Palau […]
Artigau. Chronicles of a reality, 1965-1977
Francesc Artigau (Barcelona, 1940) is one of the leading representatives of the new figuration in Catalonia who, in the mid-sixties, challenged the hegemony of informalism by once again taking the everyday environment and immediate reality as a source of inspiration and developing a figuration marked by social and political denunciation, as well as a criticism […]
Enric Ansesa. Paths
Enric Ansesa (Girona, 1945) is one of the leading figures in contemporary Catalan art. With a body of work that places him on the margins of most of his colleagues, this Girona native embraced black and abstraction in the mid-seventies and has not stopped until he has turned them into a hallmark of his work. […]
Modest Urgell, beyond the horizon
Modest Urgell (1839-1919) was one of the most successful painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He exhibited regularly, from the 1870s, in national exhibitions (Barcelona, Olot, Girona or the National Fine Arts Exhibitions in Madrid) and international exhibitions (in Paris, Munich, Brussels, Berlin, Chicago or Philadelphia). He gained fame and recognition and […]
Touch to touch. Drawings from blindness
How can you design for those who cannot see? How can graphic design, based on a visual composition, reach blind people? How is the point of intercommunication between this group and sighted people found? The exhibition “TOCA TOCAR. Drawings from blindness” that is being presented is born from these reflections and the desire to involve […]
70’s – 90’s. From a certain abstraction to conceptual art. Art collection of the newspaper AVUI
On April 23, 1976, the first issue of the newspaper Avui was published, the first Catalan-language newspaper after the Franco dictatorship. The newspaper was born under the pressure of a large part of Catalan society and received broad support, including that of artists. Practically all the artists of the time, in fact, responded to a […]
From Paris to Girona. Mela Muter and Polish Artists in Catalonia
Mela Muter (1876-1967), originally Polish and established in Paris since 1901, became one of the most recognized painters during the first half of the 20th century. Also in Catalonia, especially in Barcelona, where she exhibited in 1911 and 1912, and in Girona, where she stayed in the spring of 1914. The city of Girona, which […]
Juan Batlle Planas: the surrealist cabinet
Juan Batlle Planas (Torroella de Montgrí, 1911-Buenos Aires, 1966) was a key figure of the Argentine avant-garde of the 1930s, but unknown in our country. He never became an Argentine national and, although he lived in Buenos Aires from the age of two, he never returned, not even on a trip, to Spain. Juan Batlle […]
Guinovart: vital references
Josep Guinovart (1927-2007), one of the greatest exponents of the Catalan and Spanish avant-garde art of the second half of the 20th century, embodies like few others the figure of the artist in constant mutation. Guinovart comes from the profession of painter. His father was a gilder and his uncles were wall painters. He grew […]
Latest acquisitions in the md’A
The Girona Art Museum presents the latest acquisitions for its permanent collection. The landscape Girona. Tower and apse of Sant Pere Galligants , an oil on canvas measuring 70 x 89 cm, painted in 1915 by the artist Celso Lagar (Ciudad Rodrigo 1891- Seville 1966) during a stay in the city. The late Gothic panel […]