From the Provincial Council pensions to the Alfons Roig Scholarships 1863-2016

MuVIM. Quevedo, 10

Joaquín Sorolla, Ignacio Pinazo and Carmen Calvo They are part of this MuVIM exhibition that shows the evolution of Valencian art since the Diputació Pensions were implemented in the year 1863 (and even 1953), recovered as the Alfons Roig Prize for Plastic Artists in 1981. The artistic boarding schools in European cities were designed to oxygenate and open the mind to the local artists who stood out in the 19th century., Today they are visual arts awards promoted by the Provincial Council with the intention of promoting and disseminating Valencian contemporary art.. In recent years, renowned artists such as Rafael Armengol, Moisés Mahiques, Angela García Codoñer o Manu Blazquez, and some of them sign the 34 works selected for this exhibition that wants to fill with laurels the work undertaken by the Provincial Council in the dissemination of Valencian art. On the other hand, Luis Moscaró occupies the glass cube room outside the museum with his exhibition The intermediate form, with work made of humble materials such as papers, posters and plasters where the painting, according to Pepe Cosín, exhibition curator, “condenses forming matter, body, solid and light at the same time”. AU

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