Acquisitions by the Reina Sofia of new works from ARCO 2024

Once again, the Reina Sofia Museum strengthens the Collection with the acquisition of new works from ARCO 2024, in support of the most important art fair in Spain. A selection of 30 works by artists such as Nuria Güell, Ana Laura Alaez, Lola Bosshard, Esther Boix, Mitsu Miura, Ana Gallardo, Alicia Herrero, Josep Ponsatí, Miguel Ángel Rojas and Regina José Galindo, among others, who pass, from now on, to form part of the Museum's funds. The total value of the acquisitions is 553,753.5 euros.

With the aim of increasing the presence of women in the future presentations of the Collection, the Museum has bought works that represent the new creative generations that give continuity to the feminist poetics of the 70s, in works in very diverse media and from very different generations, with special emphasis on supporting Spanish women artists. We have also incorporated works with discursive themes that bring us closer to social injustices, to gender discrimination, to the different political realities, trying to enrich the space that the Museum dedicates to its Collection to Latin American art.

By Lola Bosshard, subject of a recent exhibition at José de la Mano, MNCARS includes an untitled painting and five drawings from the Monochromes series dated to the second half of the sixties and representative of the beginning of abstraction pure in Spain.

A contemporary of the Valencian was Esther Boix Pons, whose Reina Sofia has bought No clou (1971) and Ella (1973). He began his journey in the fifties, within the Postectura collective, and in the mid-sixties he promoted the Estampa Popular movement in Barcelona, promoted in parallel with other Spanish cities in order to bring culture closer to broad social strata.

Paris HLM is the work acquired by Queen Sofia by Mari Puri Herrero. It refers to the social rental housing in the suburbs of the city, created from the real estate crisis derived from the post-war period, which in this composition deny all landscape and even the vision of the horizon.

From Armando, whose death is celebrated 22 years ago, the MNCARS has acquired two of the oils on table that he dedicated to UFOs, dated 1970 and 1980. From Mitsuo Miura, the Reina Sofia buys an installation (Brisa d'estiu , 1990) and two photographs (Platja dels Geneveses, 1983).

Other very different sensory experiences make up the group acquired by Julia Montilla from Barcelona: The painting of the street, which delves into the phenomena of Sant Sebastià de Garabandal (1961). Disappeared political parties is, for his part, the mural work acquired by Queen Sofia by the Venezuelan Alexander Apostol. Culito is the title of the small-format sculpture by Ana Laura Aláez that the Madrid center also adds to its collection, and which has to do with the AIDS epidemic and the sexual taboos of the nineties, like other works of the same time.

The Sun and the Table, Regina Giménez's work also purchased by Queen Sofia, is composed of 65 methacrylate stencils created from geometric shapes that, at least in the 20th century, were used to explain astronomical questions. The Museum has also acquired Izarrak, by Sahatsa Jauregi, a work based on the coupling of manufactured and found objects, here held in tension with welding wire; Kurba (whale kiss dance) by Nora Aurrekoetxea, a new exercise in the attempt to materialize emotions by this Bilbao author, who for the creation of pieces like this has studied verbal and body language in relation to everyday space ; Antojo by Elena Alonso, half-point arch that fused Romanesque and Viennese Secession features and with which this artist participated in the celebrated CA2M exhibition “Wanting to look like night”; and Ponsatí III Piece, Cap de Creus – Cadaqués – Benidorm, one of Josep Ponsatí's inflatables, along with an audiovisual that describes his work process.