Alicante. Tuesday March 22, 2011.
The Mayor of Alicante, Sonia Castedo, today opened the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACA) in the historic center of the city as a new cultural infrastructure that contains a unique "collage of artists and trends" of the twentieth century. The MACA promote the cultural quality of Alicante and will, at the same time, a tourist attraction, as stated by the first municipal authority in the act.
The new museum was conceived as a tribute to Eusebio Sempere and recognition for his work as the artist most international of Alicante, who struggled to end to get a collection of art for the city: the Twentieth Century Art Collection, which forms the backbone of the new equipment.
The regional secretary for Culture, Rafael Miró, has accompanied the Deputy Mayor of Culture, Miguel Valor, and practically in the middle of the Corporation, which has followed the act and has toured the facilities with a large audience and artists. The former mayor and deputy Luis Diaz Alperi, and relatives of Joan Sempere and French, also bequeathed part of his paintings to the city, were in the official delegation. From the creators who have taken part in the inauguration were distinguished José Azorín, María Chana, J. Sarrió, Palm, Lujan, Cerdá Gironés, Segundo Garcia, Manuel Reig watercolorist, Saro - who was in Paris with Sempere - Maryla Dabrowska, Illuminated G. Torres, Saorin, Morán Berruti, Juan and Salvador García Gómez, among others. Architects and Garcia Solera or cultural managers, as Maribel Berná, president of Ateneo, and Consuelo Giner, founder of Mirror Alicante, have also integrated the delegation that has visited all the rooms of the museum.
With the firm commitment of the Government, especially the Department of Infrastructure, the museum was built to designs by architects Sol Madridejos and Juan Carlos Sancho, who won the contest summoned. The MACA is in the historic center of Alicante and is open to the Plaza de Santa Maria, a national monument. The building stands on a plot of 1,141 m2 of total area by integrating all the House of the Insured, an example of Baroque architecture in Valencia. The new facility has 4,680 m2 of total built area and has four floors above ground and two basements. Collections
The MACA has substantial funds, divided mainly into three collections that cover the main currents of twentieth century art.
Twentieth Century Art Collection. The first plant of the museum consists of the entire collection acquired by Eusebio Sempere throughout his life, through purchases and exchanges with the most significant artists of the twentieth century. This space includes a prominent displays of sculptures, paintings, prints, drawings, lithographs and screen prints that complement the long list of essential artists. The plant contains a careful selection of 76 works, which are to be enjoyed. There are works by Picasso, Dalí, Bacon, Alfaro, Delaunay, J. Cocteau, Equipo Crónica, Gargallo, Genoese, Giacometti, Julio Gonzalez, Juan Gris, Guerrero, Canogar Rauschemberg and Vasarely, among others. Juana
French Collection. One of the important artists in the twentieth century, Joan French, founding member and the only woman in the group El Paso. This collection is the result of their donation to the museum in 1990. It consists of more than one hundred works, including drawings, paintings, boxes, towers, serigraphs and lithographs, ranging from early figurative works to his most radical of the towers, through his series of seabed and comets, which goes in search of harmony and balance through color . We have selected 28 works for exhibition. Municipal Library
Eusebio Sempere. This is the private collection of the City of Alicante, this institution has acquired since 1997. It comprises over 500 works including drawings, paintings, sculptures and graphic works. Phases
President of the Generalitat, Francisco Camps, the mayor of Alicante and many public representatives inaugurated the restoration of the Insured and the completion of the work of the new museum MACA in May 2010. During June, the new equipment became the receiving of visits so that citizens could go and see their facilities.
The new museum embarked on December 13, 2010 the adventure narrative with a sample of English Normative Art, marking the official opening of the temporary exhibition hall located on the ground floor. The rest of the building process continued its technical suitability for shaping the humidity, security, etc. Today has been opened in its entirety.
The MACA will be open, with free access Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 to 20 hours. Sundays and holidays from 10 to 14 hours. Closed Mondays.
News Releases Muncipal Board of Culture. City of Alicante.
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