Exposicion Contemporanea Murillo

Seville: Exhibition for the Murillo Year

(from Dec 2018 to March 6 2019)

It was possible to visit the exhibition Aplicación Murillo. Materialismo, Charitas y populismo”, the last exhibition celebrated with occasion the 400th birthday of the great master. This celebration attracted two million visitors that year.

More than 600 works are part of the largest exhibition of contemporary art in the city. Under the direction of Pedro G. Romero, Luis Martínez Montiel and Joaquín Vázquez, “Aplicación Murillo, Materialismo, charitas y populismo” shows the power with which Murillo’s work can still operate in the 21st century. So Picasso, Ángeles Santos, Sonia Delaunay, Tarsila do Amaral, Norah Borges, Dora Maar, Josefa Tolrá, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Walker Evans, Helen Lewitt, Julio Romero de Torres, Solana, David Hockney, Joseph Beuys, Sol Lewitt, Tacita Dean, Juan Muñoz, Museum of the Village of the Pedagogical Missions (Ramón Gaya, Juan Bonafé and others), Joam Colom, José de Val del Omar, Víctor Erice, Patti Smith, Harum Farocki, Equipo Crónica, Agustín Ibarrola, Ramón Massat, Nan Golding, Pepe Espaliu, Ocaña, Esther Ferrer, Dora García, Cabello&Carceller, Eulalia Valldosera, Eva Lootz, Carmen Laffón and Luis Gordillo, and many
others.

The exhibition comprised 30 lending institutions, including the Reina Sofia National Museum and Art Center, which distinguishes itself as a cooperating institution. For this project, Seville has received loans from the National Library of Spain, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Caixa Foundation, the Dos de mayo Art Center, Artium, the Vitoria Gasteiz Basque Center-Museum of Contemporary Art, the Prado National Museum, the Museum of Romanticism, the Focus Foundation, and the Fundus Diego Angulo of the Legado Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, Pérez Sánchez, Museum of Fine Arts of Seville, Museum of Fine Arts of Cordoba, Lancaster House in Great Britain and up to 20 other institutions in Spain and Europe.

In addition, 13 guest artists have created or lent specific works for this exhibition: Paula Rego, Inés Doujack, 4Taxis, Hiwa K, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Julio Jara, Teresa Lanceta, Miguel Trillo, Salome del Campo, Gloria Martín, Oriol Vilapuig, Oriol Vilanova and Patricia Caballero.

The exhibition was divided into five different rooms: a visit that begins in the four rooms of Santa Clara, continues in the three rooms of Atín Aya, leads through two rooms of the Hospital de los Venerables, the seat of the Focus Foundation, continues in two large rooms of Cicus and ends in the Hospital de la Caridad.

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Exposicion Contemporanea Murillo

Seville: Exhibition for the Murillo Year

(from Dec 2018 to March 6 2019)

It was possible to visit the exhibition Aplicación Murillo. Materialismo, Charitas y populismo”, the last exhibition celebrated with occasion the 400th birthday of the great master. This celebration attracted two million visitors that year.

More than 600 works are part of the largest exhibition of contemporary art in the city. Under the direction of Pedro G. Romero, Luis Martínez Montiel and Joaquín Vázquez, “Aplicación Murillo, Materialismo, charitas y populismo” shows the power with which Murillo’s work can still operate in the 21st century. So Picasso, Ángeles Santos, Sonia Delaunay, Tarsila do Amaral, Norah Borges, Dora Maar, Josefa Tolrá, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Walker Evans, Helen Lewitt, Julio Romero de Torres, Solana, David Hockney, Joseph Beuys, Sol Lewitt, Tacita Dean, Juan Muñoz, Museum of the Village of the Pedagogical Missions (Ramón Gaya, Juan Bonafé and others), Joam Colom, José de Val del Omar, Víctor Erice, Patti Smith, Harum Farocki, Equipo Crónica, Agustín Ibarrola, Ramón Massat, Nan Golding, Pepe Espaliu, Ocaña, Esther Ferrer, Dora García, Cabello&Carceller, Eulalia Valldosera, Eva Lootz, Carmen Laffón and Luis Gordillo, and many
others.

The exhibition comprised 30 lending institutions, including the Reina Sofia National Museum and Art Center, which distinguishes itself as a cooperating institution. For this project, Seville has received loans from the National Library of Spain, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Caixa Foundation, the Dos de mayo Art Center, Artium, the Vitoria Gasteiz Basque Center-Museum of Contemporary Art, the Prado National Museum, the Museum of Romanticism, the Focus Foundation, and the Fundus Diego Angulo of the Legado Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez, Pérez Sánchez, Museum of Fine Arts of Seville, Museum of Fine Arts of Cordoba, Lancaster House in Great Britain and up to 20 other institutions in Spain and Europe.

In addition, 13 guest artists have created or lent specific works for this exhibition: Paula Rego, Inés Doujack, 4Taxis, Hiwa K, Isidoro Valcárcel Medina, Julio Jara, Teresa Lanceta, Miguel Trillo, Salome del Campo, Gloria Martín, Oriol Vilapuig, Oriol Vilanova and Patricia Caballero.

The exhibition was divided into five different rooms: a visit that begins in the four rooms of Santa Clara, continues in the three rooms of Atín Aya, leads through two rooms of the Hospital de los Venerables, the seat of the Focus Foundation, continues in two large rooms of Cicus and ends in the Hospital de la Caridad.

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