It pleases us to offer you some traveling exhibits from the Fundación Eugenio Granell
I. EUGENIO GRANELL COLLECTION
1. TRANSVERSAL INTERPRETATIONS IN THE WORK OF EUGENIO GRANELL.
The exhibition introduces us to Eugenio Granells work by means of the languages he employs throughout his extensive career (painting, collage, drawing, ready-made, photography, experimental cinema…); the aesthetic ideas that make up the backbone of his work and his formal contributions to the aesthetics of surrealism.
The show focusses on the following concepts: the complex reinterpretation that Granell makes of Bretons poetics, the exceptional transcendence that the artist grants to the figure of the woman and the profoundly humanist roots of his work.
The exhibition will also reflect the formal contributions that set Granells work apart. It highlights the development of a spatial layout, which annuls the system of perspective representation and turns the entire surface into a two-dimensional pictorial plane. It will feature a specific section for drawing, a mode of expression that is present throughout the artists entire life.
2. EUGENIO GRANELL. MAGICAL ECLOSION, 1956-1967.
Exhibition that focusses on an especially important period in the artists career: a North American period, featuring great creative freedom, which laid the aesthetic and conceptual foundation of his later work and which he began to abandon in 1967. He lived in the USA until 1985.
The exhibition is made up of a selection of oil paintings, drawings, constructions and an experimental cinema project. The group of oil paintings known as Magical Landscapes became especially important.
3. ENCOUNTER BETWEEN THE ANCIENT WORLD AND THE UNIVERSE OF DREAMS
By means of small, intimate works such as constructions (made from a polychrome assemblage of wood and other materials) and the customary practice of automatic drawing, Granell gradually shapes the particular development of the time-space dimension in his production: stable, spiritual and without narrative concessions.
The exhibition consists of a selection of constructions and work on paper. The selection features the construction Bodegón de Zurbarán (1970), which reflects perfectly his concept of time-space.
II. THE GRANELL FOUNDATIONS SURREALIST COLLECTION
1. SURREALIST MAP OF THE WORLD: INTERNATIONAL SURREALISM IN THE GRANELL FOUNDATION. A wide selection of International Surrealism works belonging to Eugenio Granells private collection, which highlights the surrealist movements persistent presence throughout the 20th and 21st centuries and its territorial expansion.
The collection is the result, among other reasons, of his friendships with other surrealists and his interest in other figures close to the movement.
The show highlights the incorruptible commitment of artists such as Max Ernst, Eugenio Granell, Artur Cruzeiro Seixas, among others, and the connection with the surrealism of outstanding artists such as Picasso, Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp or Troyen. We exhibit a selection of international surrealist art with a representation of both European and American artists, featuring a section devoted to Spanish artists. There are works by the first generation of surrealist artists as well as the following generations.
2. SURREALISM AS A COLLECTIVE PHENOMENON.
The exhibition takes a look at the Foundations extensive surrealist art and documentation collection, in which the entire genealogy of the movement down to the present is represented by works and artists.
The show, by means of historical and present-day surrealist works, as well as varied documentation such as journals, fanzines, photographs…, reveals the strong group identity that characterised and still characterises surrealist artists. It also highlights the importance of Surrealism as a vanguard that created a new concept of collective authorship.
3. THE POETICAL OBJECT: METAPHOR OF SURREALIST THINKING. The exhibition consists of a selection of historical and present-day surrealist works that reveal the full complexity behind the poetics of the surrealist object: from the poem-object, the objet trouvé, the book-object, the editable-object, etc. Although the surrealist object is not the most represented artwork in the Eugenio Granell surrealist collection, the collection contains highly significant works such as Marcel Duchamps Rotorelieves.
III. GRANELL FOUNDATIONS ETHNIC ART COLLECTION 
1. EUGENIO GRANELLS INICIATION JOURNEY: PANORAMIC VIEW OF HIS ETHNIC ART COLLECTION.
The exhibition we are presenting consists of a wide selection of ethnic art works from America and Africa. Most of the works reflect Eugenio Granells vicissitudes throughout the American continent, where he acquired works from Central America, the Caribbean, Haiti, Mexico, Brazil…, thereby enlarging his collection.
Eugenio Granell, like almost all artists of Europes historical vanguard, sought inspiration, to a greater or lesser degree, in the art of cultures different from European culture. His curiosity and respect for the ancestral wisdom of peoples, and their artistic expressions, would accompany him throughout his life, resulting in the magnificent ethnic art collection that we are now showing.
The collection features an interesting group of African works from the 19th century, as well as a wonderful collection of Kachina dolls made by the Hopi Indians from southwest USA. Kachinas are of special interest within the surrealist movement, being an object of fascination and collectors item for such outstanding figures as André Breton, Max Ernst, Roberto Mata… 
2. DANCE OF THE EARTH.
The series of works making up this exhibition are related to dance rituals. The selection of African art consists of religious objects (such as masks, sculptures…) belonging to different cultures such as the Dogon, Bambara… The items are used in different rituals: manhood initiation rites, agricultural ritual dances. Kachinas are spirits that accompany the Hopi people: they are represented as dolls, which are used to convey spiritual teachings to children, or by means of dance rituals in which members of the people dress up as Kachinas to relate the Hopi Indians cosmogony.
3. THE MASK IN EUGENIO GRANELLS ETHNIC COLLECTION.
Throughout the world, the use of masks usually involves invoking the spirits, an attitude of mediation between the spiritual and the real world, being common to different periods and civilisations. Moreover, they are usually used in rites in which the body and the mind enter a kind of catharsis full of images, similar to what the subconscious experiences during dreams. These objects are therefore of great interest to surrealists.
The presence of masks in the Granell Foundations ethnic art collection, made up of different kinds of traditional art objects (traditional religious art, objects used in pagan festivities, toys…) from America, Africa and Europe, proves to be especially significant.
4. EXPERIENCING TRADITIONAL ART. SOURCE OF INSPIRATION FOR EUGENIO GRANELL.
The exhibition project that we are presenting takes a panoramic look at Eugenio Granells traditional art collection, along with a selection of the artists works that reflect this enriching influence. The visual photographic poem, El Moro Muza, made in 1952, is an outstanding example.
Eugenio Granells interest goes beyond the value arising from the creative processes behind traditional art. The artist not only uses his personal journey around different parts of the world to gradually form a collection of traditional art objects, but also steeps himself in their formal and spiritual world, which is clearly reflected in his work.
IV. PHILIP WEST COLLECTION 
After the announced death of surrealism with the death of André Breton, the movements baton was taken up by a varied amalgam of surrealist groups throughout the world. The work carried out in the British Isles is of special interest, with the British artist Philip West being an outstanding exponent of the surrealist movement. The artist worked mainly between the 1970s and the 1990s.
The exhibition we are presenting is a journey to the surrealism of this period through the brilliant eyes of this British artist. The exhibition will consist of a selection of oil paintings and work on paper. It will also include a documentary section made up of publications by surrealist groups in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, featuring the participation of Philip West.
