"The paths of abstraction" at the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera

The Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera will host, under the title The paths of abstraction, 1957-1978. Dialogues with the Spanish Abstract Art Museum , an ambitious expansion of the itinerant project launched by the Juan March Foundation and the Spanish Abstract Art Museum in Conca. The itinerant project, which can be visited from September 29, 2022 to January 15, 2023, brings together more than forty works that not only summarize the abstraction of the second half of the 20th century in Spain, but that each of the five that make up the itinerancy – the Center José Guerrero of the Diputació de Granada, the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera, the Meadows Museum SMU in Dallas (USA) and the Ludwig Museum Koblenz – contribute and acquire specific characters according to the particularities of each institution, the context and the audience to which it is addressed.

At the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation, the work of the museum's Spanish abstract artists will enter into dialogue with some of the top representatives of international abstraction. At La Pedrera lyrical and gestural abstraction, abstract expressionism, geometric abstraction or color field painting will be represented by the work of internationally known artists Mark Rothko, Alberto Burri, Willem de Kooning, Hans Hartung, Jean Dubuffet, Helen Frankenthaler or Jackson Pollock, who will share space with national artists whose careers have had a significant impact around the world such as Elena Asins, Sara Grilo, José Guerrero, Eva Lootz, Manuel Millares, Pablo Palazuelo, Antonio Saura, Soledad Sevilla , Antonio Tàpies, Jordi Teixidor, Gustavo Torner, Fernando Zóbel and José María Yturralde, among others, or sculptors such as Jorge Oteiza, Eduardo Chillida and Martín Chirino. For its part, and in parallel, the Suñol Foundation will also exhibit a selection of works from the Spanish Abstract Art Museum in Conca de la Fundació Juan March in dialogue with the Suñol Soler Collection. The Mirades creuades exhibition, curated by Glòria Picazo, deals with collecting as a look at art in continuous revision and will contrast the collecting of two fundamental patrons: Fernando Zóbel and Josep Suñol Soler.

In the image: Rafael Canogar. Toledo , 1960. Juan March Foundation Collection, Museum of Spanish Abstract Art, Conca. ©Rafael Canogar, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2022