Exhibition explores how a Spanish-Filipino artist in 1966 opened a trailblazing cultural outpost in Cuenca’s ‘hanging houses’
The gallery was once hailed as ‘the most beautiful small museum in the world’, which is the exhibition’s title.The gallery was once hailed as ‘the most beautiful small museum in the world’, which is the exhibition’s title.In July 1966, as the Beatles were preparing to release Revolver and Spain was approaching the 30th anniversary of the coup that birthed the Franco dictatorship, a Spanish-Filipino artist called, or Museum of Spanish Abstract Art, had a simple if daunting mission.
“I think we can almost say that the Cuenca museum was the first democratic museum in the country because it didn’t ask anyone’s permission to do anything,” Fontán said. “It’s true that if it had gone against the regime, it would have been shut down. It was created on the fringes of the Franco regime’s official cultural policy, but it was dreamed into being by a group of artists, led by Zóbel.
“The museum had a massive and very exciting impact: artists came to live in Cuenca; successive generations were weaned on the museum and its library – which has things like Ginsberg’s Howl or the complete works of TS Eliot – and there were also monographs and contemporary art catalogues and essays,” Fontán said.
Fontán said the aim of the show was to tell “the unlikely story of an artist who helped other artists create the first space for modern and contemporary art in our country”.
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