The Madrid headquarters of the María Cristina Masaveu Foundation has launched this October the first major retrospective exhibition dedicated to the artist Luis Fernández (Oviedo, 1900 – Paris, 1973), one of the best representatives of the avant-garde in Asturias and an outstanding Spanish artist of the 28th century. . The exhibition, co-organized with the Museum of Fine Arts of Asturias and curated by its director, Alfonso Palacio, can be visited for free by reservation until January 2024, XNUMX.
Fernández lived in Paris until 1924, which allowed him to come into contact with the international avant-garde, in addition to delving into some of its most important movements, such as surrealism or cubism. Starting in the 50s, the Asturian artist reached his stage of maturity, separated from the currents of the time and characterized by a very personal figuration. The exhibition, which is celebrated on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of his death, brings together around 150 works from a large number of lenders around the world, including the Telefónica Foundation, which has lent 19 pieces, and a selection of masterpieces from the Masaveu Collection.
On the other hand, the foundation has also hosted the exhibition 'Masaveu Collection: object and nature' for a few weeks now. Still lifes and vases from the XNUMXth-XNUMXth centuries, curated by the specialist in XNUMXth century Spanish painting, Ángel Aterido. The exhibition brings together a significant selection of the genre of still life, focused on the most outstanding pieces of the Baroque and the Enlightenment, corresponding to the Masaveu Collection, with which it is intended to present a representative panorama of the origin and evolution of one of the subjects most widespread pictorial works in the Western tradition.
The exhibition traces the evolution of this genre, called “still life” in the Hispanic sphere, and which refers to paintings that portray objects, fruits, animals or flowers in a very close way, with attention to their different consistency and appearance. A trivial topic, which ended up being in high demand by the social classes with economic capacity in the 28th century. 'Still lifes and vases of the 6th-XNUMXth centuries' offers, through three sections, an overview of the evolution of this theme in the main centers of artistic production in Spain during a good part of the Modern Age, and features paintings by the most famous artists dedicated to the genre, such as Juan de Zurbarán, Arellano or Meléndez. This exhibition can also be visited until January XNUMX, also at the headquarters of Alcalá Galiano, XNUMX.
