In January 2022, this newspaper was already reporting on conversations between the Ministry of Culture, the Generalitat and his family. Joaquin Sorolla to announce 2023 Year of Sorolla. A year and a month later, after some minor activities – developed by elevator-EMV, Of the Prensa Ibérica group – yesterday, finally, full program events to commemorate the centennial of the lord of light. Most of the activities announced to the public, Madrid Sorolla Museum In the founding act of the Commission of the Year, Sorolla, thirty exhibitions at different points Spain, USA, Denmark, Cuba and Italy. The event was attended by the Minister of Culture Miquel Iceta and the Autonomous Minister of Culture of the Generalitat Valenciana. ximo lopezamong others.
Valencia handed over to the painter
Valenciapainter’s hometown, will bring together numerous exhibitions in different venues. After passing the Museum of Fine Arts, Sorolla Museum «Sorolla. Origins» and later a collection of Sorolla’s works in the Masaveu Collection, both of which have been previously previewed by this newspaper. on his behalf Valencia City Council will honor the painter Sorolla in Rome. Artist and de Diputacion Valencia (1884-1889)» In Batlia Palace. The Bancaja Foundation for its part will inaugurate “Sorolla en negro” and various local institutions such as the “City Museum” will focus on Sorolla’s connections with Valencia. Benlliure House Museum”Developed from the Ministry of Culture.
from the land of Sorolla
HE Sorolla Museum and Sorolla Museum Foundationcoordinators The Year of SorollaThey also take part in a good part of programming. Two recent exhibitions give an account of this: «Sorolla. Origins” and “Sorolla is dead! Long live Sorolla! will come in april “Joaquin Sorolla in front of the sea, by Manuel Vicente”, with a literary curation in which Sorolla’s painting will coexist with Vicente’s literature. Described as the ‘Sorolla of Spanish literature’, the author draws a literary story around the painter’s aesthetic and moral attitude towards the sea by making a selection from the works in the Sorolla Museum collections.
The Sorolla Museum collections will travel beyond Madrid headquarters to natural production sites through the exhibition project. “Sorolla. Travel to paint». There are currently six approved sites: San Sebastián, Toledo, Valladolid, Sevilla, A Coruña or Mallorca. From February 17, Madrid will also host the “Sorolla with Light” exhibition at the Royal Palace, which combines original work with virtual reality rooms. It will then arrive in Valencia in the second half of the year.
Also other institutions like Sorolla Centennial Prado MuseumAlicante Fine Arts Museum, Palau Martorell in Barcelona, Fundación Caja Circulo de Burgos or Asturias Fine Arts Museum.
most international painter
Sorolla is Valencia’s most international painter. That is why at the Glyptoteca in Copenhagen (Denmark), the Spanish Royal Academy in Rome (Italy), the National Museum of Fine Arts in Cuba, the Meadows Museum in Dallas (USA) and in collaboration with the Hispanic Society. National Art Club of New York (USA). The programming is complemented by a publication schedule of more than a dozen titles, such as a catalog raisonné, unpublished correspondence with his wife, or the 1923 manuscript of the critic José Manau, among others. scientists organized congresses and presentations.