The Bancaja and ABANCA Foundation presents the exhibition Commitment to art. From Miró to Barceló, which brings together in Valencia a selection of the contemporary art collections of both institutions, offering a retrospective look at the evolution of art during the 20th and 21st centuries. The sample, curated by Fernando Castro Flórez, proposes a dialogue between the collections of ABANCA and the Bancaja Foundation in a journey that ranges from the historical avant-garde to the plurality of forms of contemporary painting with works dated between 1913 y 2023. The exhibition is part of the collaboration between the two institutions, which led to this project being shown at the Afundación headquarters in A Coruña in October 2025 and which is now presented at the headquarters of the Bancaja Foundation in Valencia with a renewed set of selected works. The exhibition tour is made up of 86 construction, 48 from the ABANCA Collection and 38 from the funds of the Bancaja Foundation. In this reading of more than a century of art are represented 59 artists, who have starred in the different pictorial movements of the period in national and international art.
The works of the avant-garde present in the exhibition range from a review of avant-garde creative dynamics with works by Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, George Braque, Juan Gris, Paul Klee, Joaquin Torres Garcia, Marc Chagall, Giorgio De Chirico, André Lhote or Jean Metzinger, to different ways of understanding contemporary painting, as in the works of Manolo Valdés or Soledad Sevilla. The exhibition presents the modulations of painting from fundamental creators of informalism such as Antonio Saura, Rafael Canogar, Manolo Millares or Antoni Tàpies, to artists who start from geometric rigor such as Eusebio Sempere or José María Yturralde.
Sean Scully's abstract paintings, Jose Manuel Broto, Anton Lamazares, José María Sicilia, Miguel Ángel Campano or Günther Förg, and pop and figurative approaches such as those of Equipo Crónica, Luis Gordillo, Dario Villalba, It's here, Juan Barjola, Juan Navarro Baldeweg and Miquel Barceló, they account for the vitality of pictorial practice without drifts in a linear and historicist development. Also included is a set of pieces linked to the evocation of nature and the urban context., with works like those of Miquel Navarro, Cristina Iglesias, Urbano Lugrís or Julian Opie.
