Olga Sacharoff: painting, poetry, emancipation
“Olga Sacharoff: painting, poetry and emancipation” is the central exhibition of the Sacharoff Year, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of the avant-garde Russian painter Olga Sacharoff, and aims to position her as an active artist in the so-called School of Paris of the first half of the 20th century; as well as […]
Divorces with tradition, by Domènec Fita
The Girona Art Museum inaugurates on Friday, October 27 at 6 p.m. the first of six exhibitions and events that will take place in Girona as part of the commemoration of the 90th birthday of the artist Domènec Fita. The Fita Foundation, with the support of the Girona Provincial Council, Girona City Council, the Bishopric […]
Democratic Assembly of Artists of Girona (ADAG)
‘ADAG constituted one of the main organizational and anti-Franco political action experiences of the artistic world in Catalonia and in the Spanish State during the process of repealing the dictatorship. Formed by a plural group of activists and visual producers, it developed a wide range of actions, of very diverse typologies but with the common […]
Prudenci Bertrana, painter
Before he was a writer, Prudenci Bertrana (Tordera, 1867 – Barcelona, 1941) was a painter. He made the art of drawing and painting his first profession, and it was also his first creative stimulus. On the occasion of the celebration of Bertrana Year, the md’A dedicates a large exhibition to the artistic side of one […]
Miquel Blay. The path to success
The Girona Art Museum is hosting, until April 17, 2017 , the temporary exhibition “Miquel Blay. The path to success. (1866-1936)”, which culminates the program of events organized during this year to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the sculptor’s birth . The exhibition delves into the artist’s training period , from 1888 , when Blay […]
The Busquets brothers. A shared universe
The Busquets brothers and their work became key in the study of the second generation of noucentist artists in Catalonia and especially in Girona. Josep Maria, Lluís and Jaume, collaborators of the architect Rafael Masó, gave new impetus and value to works in applied arts, especially from the Galeria de Bells Oficis opened in Girona […]
Santiago Rusiñol in Girona
The Girona Art Museum presents, for the first time, a selection of works, paintings, photographs and texts that testify to Santiago Rusiñol’s connection with the Girona region, and especially with Girona city. The exhibition, which shows 26 paintings plus twenty drawings and photographs as well as documents and writings by Rusiñol, explores the artist’s Girona […]
Aplech, models in verse and prose. Portraits of Prudenci Bertrana
Between 1905 and 1906, Prudenci Bertrana made thirty-six portraits in drawings of Catalan writers, commissioned by the Girona-based publishing house Dalmau Carles i Cia. The portraits were to illustrate the reading book Aplech. Models in verse and prose of our Renaissance for use in the schools of Catalonia, Mallorca, Valencia, Roussillon . The exhibition served […]
Origins of a museum. The collection of Mossèn Valls
Mossèn Pere Valls i Vilà (Olot, 1848 – Barcelona, 1925) gathered, throughout his life, a large and heterogeneous collection that ranged from illustrations of matchboxes to small reproductions of plaster reliefs, as well as quality artistic works in various formats, including one of the best art galleries in the Girona area, with works by Vayreda, […]
Stained glass windows. The light of the Girona Cathedral
The Art Museum presents a small exhibition of a selection of the 14th century stained glass windows of the Girona Cathedral, currently kept in storage. These are true gems of medieval glasswork that filled the Cathedral with polychrome light over the centuries. For the first time in an exhibition and complemented by the Art Museum’s […]