Fernando Zóbel's painting is, first of all, An act of thought. A way of approaching the world that transcends the visual to place in that almost intangible space where perception converge, Memory and emotion contained. Born in Manila in 1924, Zóbel arrived in Spanish art as a foreigner -not only in a geographical sense, but also cultural-, But soon he would become one of his most influential agents. Your figure, Many times described with adjectives as “elegant”, “scholarly” o “subtle”, also contains an uncommon determination: The one that not only produces work, It builds the ecosystem necessary for it to make sense.
The exhibition around Zóbel, that we present at the Benlliure gallery, It is an invitation to contemplate the artist's work from a double perspective: that of your own pictorial language, and that of its ability to generate relationships, Schools, institutions and affections. In this sense, Zóbel is not here only the center of an exhibition: It is his trigger, The nucleus from which a constellation formed by other key names of Spanish abstraction of the second half of the 20th century is deployed: Antonio Saura, Manuel Millares, Luis Feito, José Guerrero, Jordi teixador and Jose Maria Yturralde.
