27 may 2026 – 2027
Rooms 1, 2 and 3. Second floor
Curators: María Pita Ponte and Dolores Villaverde Solar
The exhibition Granell’s Readings is a project curated by María Pita and Dolores Villaverde, based on Granell’s library and his plastic work, thereby proposing a guide to understand his personal, cultural, ideological and artistic life.
The exhibition we present takes a tour of the library of Eugenio Granell and Amparo Segarra with the aim of making known the interrelationship between Granell’s life and work and his documentary legacy.
Through a selection of original pieces that occupy a prominent place in his library, privileging those that are unique, very rare or have not been exhibited to the public until now, we will endeavour to provide a vision of Eugenio F. Granell’s multi-faceted personality. Musician, political activist, exile, writer and, above all, plastic artist.
We want to show the publications that Granell read and also his reading projects, as well as an interpretation of his plastic work related to books. For this reason, a dual curator ship was chosen, made up of the Foundation’s librarian, María Pita Ponte, and the History of Art lecturer, Dolores Villaverde Solar.
“Paintings can also be read,” says Dolores Villaverde. “And books can be imagined plastically,” adds María Pita. Granell was at that meeting point and that is the meeting point that we seek to convey to the visitor. These are singular words that come together to give meaning to the exhibition, section by section: concepts such as Surrealism, Art, History, Politics, Literature, etc. “We did not choose the sections: they are the sections that Granell and Amparo chose when they organized their library once and for all.”