The sparkle of a moment in time, 70’s. The contribution of women artists to the art collection of the Catalan newspaper Avui
The radiography of a moment, in the feminine When the first issue of the newspaper AVUI saw the light on Sant Jordi’s Day in 1976, the newspaper’s art collection already counted a substantial body of artworks, close to 600 pieces, donated by artists as direct support for the project of publishing the first newspaper in […]
Costa Brava. The discovery of paradise (1870-1936). From Blanes to Cap de Creus, identity of a landscape.
From Blanes to Cap de Creus, identity of a landscape The exhibition at the Girona Art Museum, subtitled From Blanes to Cap de Creus, identity of a landscape, is the result of more than three years of research and proposes an itinerary arranged geographically by the moments and places from which artists contributed, voluntarily or […]
Ferresa of silence. The artists in Feminal magazine (1907-1917)
Presentation Pilar Montaner and Maturana. Next to the screen [La modela or Sa Pollencina]. 1908. Private collection Feminal was the first magazine directed and written by women to be published in Catalonia. It was published monthly in Barcelona as a supplement to La Ilustració Catalana from 1907 to 1917. It was promoted by women from […]
Postectura. The construction of tomorrow
The years of Francoism were, in many ways, dark and difficult years. Also in the field of the arts. The main artistic institutions of the country were directly controlled by the Franco regime and, consequently, very specific plastic options were defended, in accordance with the political interests of the dictator, who defended a return to […]
Celso Lagar and Hortense Bégué. The Catalan Years (1915–1918)
The exhibition we present is the first attempt to review the life and work of the Salamanca painter Celso Lagar Arroyo (Ciudad Rodrigo, 1891 – Seville, 1966) at a key moment in his career, which covers the years he spent in Catalonia between 1915 and 1918. During this period (in which, as we will see, […]
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. […]
False Truths. The Art of Deception
In 2016, the Museu d’Art de Girona experienced a traumatic episode. That year, six Renaissance panels attributed to the Girona painter Pere Mates appeared at auction, and two of them were identical to others that the museum had purchased six years earlier, in 2010. An exhaustive process of study and analysis of all the works […]
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 […]