UNTIL SUNDAY 11/2
BB.AA MUSEUM. Saint Pius V, 9
150 years fulfills the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome. Founded on 1873, is one of the cultural institutions of the longest state, with permission from El Prado, And all this time has been dedicated to artists of different disciplines to help them in their training in Rome and become anchoring Spanish culture in Europe, in the city that one day was the center of the world. The president of the First Republic, Emilio Castelar, Poquet before modernity, commanded by that new misunderstood movement called Impressionism, is transllada to Paris. The Academy of Spain in Rome has been celebrating its anniversary in Altamira all year round, Valladolid, Algeciras, El Circle of beautiful arts, the National Dramatic Center, the comic book Generación x and, We buy, At the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia - of state ownership -, in what will be the most complex and relevant exhibition of the house in the 2023, A radiograph that encapsulates els 150 Years of History of the Institution. This sample could be problematic for a Museum of Classical Art, as the route includes disciplines like comics, But the Valencian Museum has sought to sprinkle dogmatisms to accommodate current works of art that cross academic and canonical art, made by writers, cinema, videoartistes, fashion designers, painters or cartoonists. Here the sculpture of harmonious and proportionate woman signed by the sculptor Vicente Beltrán Grimal, Together with another sculpture of the 1990s (years where AIDS caused havoc) of Pepe espaliu made up of crutches planted in circle forming a nest that symbolizes the absence of the body and, therefore, illness, pain i mort. By action or by omission, These two pieces describe the range of possibilities of the treatment of the figure, Center for academic work that has served to study, strengthen or reject concepts such as those of proportion, beauty or classicism.
The sample route is not structured chronologically, but in five thematic axes that mix techniques and styles. The first illuminates the history of Spain with its civil war, its transition and its idiosyncrasy, the second captures the physical space of the Academy where the artists learn, they argue and swell, The third axis portrays the city of Rome from which pensioned artists have drunk, The fourth reflects the trips they made for Europe to impregnate other cultures and worldviews (mainly, Italy to study the technique of fresco and Greece for classic sculpture and architecture, but also the north of the continent), And the fifth lets us enter the artist's workshop where he worshiped the body from the carved marble, the plaster, He steals it, The video or photography. Certainly, the names of Joaquín Sorolla, Ignacio Pinazo, the welcome, Fernando García-Mercadal —Intelling in the design of the Mercantile Ateneo of Valencia - or Antonio Muñoz Degrain with a great painting of history much appreciated in its time by the technical difficulties and its literary and heroic character. But they are also the alive, a non -conformist critic like Rogelio López Cuenca, a comic book cartoonist underground com Martín López Lam, another cartoonist like Carla Berrocal portraying a bullfighter smoking with a rose in the head inside the series Torara is bolted, and Elo Vega pointing to how the idealization of female body forms is a form of violence, a militant steel sculptor and pierced sheet like Blanca Muñoz, a lover of popular culture as Pedro G. Romero —Who has curated a display on the subject that can be seen in IVAM until April - or Anna's speech Working bread on cotton paper. About her experience in Italy Carcaixentina said: “My eyes have gotten used to the ruin so much, that when he does not hear her close, I miss her. Rome is left in me ". The presentation of the sample wanted to make it clear that, more than the Picasso, Dalí or looked, It is the artists who have gone through the Academy of Spain in Rome those who best capture the pulse of art produced in the country and, therefore, the history of Spain. They capture them mostly, the men, because, Although parity in the delivery of scholarships is absolute, During most of the institution's history the presence of women has been non -existent or residual: Only two women came in during the first hundred years of history of the Academy of Spain in Rome. S.M.
