New Foundation Collection. Work by Eugenio Granell.
The exhibition is made up of a huge amount of work by Eugenio Granell, which will fill all of the museums exhibition space.
The Granell family has contributed to the Granell Foundations pre-existing collection (whose last donation was formalised during 2007) a notable quantity of new work by the artist, works by other artists belonging to the familys private collection (featuring names such as Picasso, Cesariny, Le Courbusier
) and traditional works of art, as well as personal objects belonging to the artist that formed part of his sancta sanctorum and, consequently, his creative space.
An important part of this legacy is Granells graphic work, quantitively speaking, as well as a considerable number of large oils and an extremely interesting group of object-based work (both constructions and objets dart). In relation to his graphic work, it is worth highlighting the important amount of drawing notebooks and sketches in the new contribution, which provides valuable information about Eugenio Granells creative process. We can also admire an extensive and significant collection of large paintings, belonging to very important periods in the artists career. His first works in the forties and fifties, as well as an excellent representation of his period known as Magical Landscapes. A room devoted entirely to work from the nineties, highlights the process of change in the final stage of the artists creative life. The work loses the baroque appearance of previous periods and is essencialised: he places more emphasis on the drawing and works the colour while barely valuing the expressiveness of the brushstroke, so important in previous periods.
The exhibition, apart from introducing us to Granells creation in its purest form, reveals the artists more personal and intimate side; the Curator reflects this by means of a selection of work made along with his wife, Amparo Segarra, as well as a careful selection of personal objects that accompanied him throughout his life: his violin, one of several typewriters and a box of paints and paintbrushes.
