The Ramón Gaya Museum opens this afternoon at 7 pm the exhibition ‘Work on paper’, from the collection of Avelino Marín. «In which collections can we see the work of Ramón Gaya? Which other artists do you live with?». This is the starting point from which the exhibition space of Murcia begins to open this exhibition which represents for the organizers “a milestone in the museum” and through which “works of internationally prestigious artists and unprecedented in the region are approached” such as « Manet, Matisse, Hockney , Kitaj, Valmier, Pascin, Rembrandt…». Born in Dolores de Pacheco (Torre Pacheco), Avelino Marín’s collecting work began forty-eight years ago. At the age of sixteen he bought his first work with his savings. They were two pieces of Viennese porcelain from the 19th century. Two women in period costume, one of them in a man’s costume. It was the beginning of the collection that is still ongoing and represents a hodgepodge that combines sculpture, installations, painting or video art, both ancient and contemporary art, without formal boundaries other than those that excite the collector. Two unpublished works “The continuous cataloging of the complete works of Ramón Gaya led us to this unique collection”, they say from the museum about an exhibition with three works by Gaya, two of which are unpublished. “It was considered to exhibit these three pieces together with others, not only by Gaya’s contemporaries (Juan Bonafé, Pedro Flores, Mariano Ballester or Pedro Serna), but also with very different artists who are part of this real collection.” Painters such as Paula Rego, Inocencio Medina Vera, Enrique Atalaya, Eduardo Chillida, Antonio López coexist in the exhibition… In ‘Work on paper. Avelino Marín’ Collection includes painters – in addition to those already mentioned – such as Bonifacio Alfonso, Paula Rego, Francisco Bayeu, Inocencio Medina Vera, Enrique Atalaya, Eduardo Chillida, Alexandre Hollan, Antonio López, Herta Müller, Mercedes Martínez Meseguer, Rainer Splitt, Hernández Pijuán , Eduardo Vicente, Adolf Schlosser, Esther Ferrer, Pata Andrea, Rosa Torres, Alejandro Franco, Leonardo Alenza, Corrujeiro, Richard Linder… The works can be seen not only in the temporary exhibition room, but also throughout the museum , talking to the painting by Ramón Gaya. With this exhibition, the Ramón Gaya Museum, led by the artist Rafael Fuster, wishes to highlight “the commendable and fundamental work of the collector and the importance it has for the preservation and dissemination of a heritage that is guarded and that, for a to some extent, belongs to all”.
Source: La Verdad
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