New York (EFE).- More than 40 masterpieces of Spanish abstract art, signed among others by Chillida, Guerrero, Palazuelo, Saura and Tàpies, travel from their home in Cuenca to Dallas (USA), to star in one of the largest exhibitions of painting and sculpture of this genre in the country.
The Meadows Museum of Dallas, which houses one of the most important collections of Spanish art abroad, announces that it will host the exhibition “Under the Shadow of the Dictatorship: the Creation of the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art” until June 18, with the most outstanding of the prestigious institution created by Fernando Zóbel in 1966.
The Museum of Spanish Abstract Art, located in the Casas Colgadas in Cuenca and directed by the Juan March Foundation since 1981, is currently undergoing air conditioning reforms and this has allowed a good part of its collection to travel in an itinerant exhibition to different museums in Spain, last year, and now to the United States.
The exhibition of Spanish abstract art
The emblematic sculpture by Eduardo Chillida “Canto Áspero IV”, a large wooden assembly that usually welcomes visitors to the Cuenca museum, now welcomes those from Dallas, while the “Sala Negra” is also recreated, offering a monochrome immersive space, indicates a press release.
The exhibition offers a cultural and political context to the creations of some thirty artists who were active in the 1960s and 1970s, and also explores the concept of materiality through their works made with materials such as wood, copper, iron, metal powder , burlap and steel.
In addition, the Meadows complements it in an adjacent gallery with its own selection dating from the 20th century to the present that includes the protagonists of the temporary exhibition, their contemporaries and other later ones inspired by them, and has created a program that includes cinema and expert talks.
The director of the Meadows Museum, Amanda W. Dotseth, noted in the note that the arrival of the works in Dallas is an “incredible opportunity” for the American public to learn about this “usually distant” collection that shows “the history of Spanish abstract art during a politically turbulent period.
After the stop in Dallas, the exhibition will head to Germany, to the Ludwig Museum Koblenz.
