Gravina Fine Arts Museum marks the new year with a celebration of two decades of experience. It hosts a night of presentations, fresh releases, and two concerts. José Luis Ferris and a collaborator of Column Browser coordinate and contribute to the museum’s first monograph, the MUBAG notebooks.
The commemorative events begin with a concert at 18:00. A performance by a guitarist from the Professional Music Conservatory, José Tomás, follows at 18:30, then the publications are introduced at 19:30, wrapping up with a second listening session. Óscar Esplá from the Superior Music Conservatory participates as well.
Julia Parra, Vice President of Culture, stated that this special program honors the museum’s foundation. One of Alicante’s premier cultural institutions, it grows in national prominence each year, supported by the trust of leading museums such as Madrid’s Prado and notable collectors who collaborate on current MUBAG exhibits, including Sara Navarro.
The provincial director highlighted that Gravina Museum of Fine Arts engages in more than exhibitions, pointing to two recent publications that bring together key voices in the cultural field.
El Prado starts its national expansion project in Mubag
Mubag’s Notebooks
The research diary Mubag notebooks 01 unfolds in seven sections: File, La Ventana del Arte, Pinacoteca, A Scene, Memory, Restoration, and Memory of Activities. Within these notebooks ten articles stand out, translated into English, authored by the museum team and scholars including Jorge A. Soler, Mª Jose Gadea, Maria Gazabat, Alice Laude, and Anna Ripoll, with Pilar Tebar and Pablo Sanchez Left; architect Santiago Varela Bottle; and journalist Jose Ramon Guner.
The work expands to more than two hundred pages, detailing Mubag’s exhibition commitments, art collection, and completed projects. It also marks a journey toward the new permanent XIX century exhibition and highlights participation in the European MuseumNext project, along with a renewed schedule of guided and educational tours, among other initiatives.
Our sea, a multidisciplinary and open view, is the title of the first publication created and owned by the journal Cuadernos del MUBAG, produced in collaboration with thirteen experts, academics, and professionals. This edition gathers diverse topics across art history, fine arts, sociology, anthropology, and tradition, with the Mediterranean as the central axis.
Besides Escanero and Ferris, the first monograph runs to around one hundred and fifty pages and includes contributions from Julian Diaz Sanchez, Ramon Diaz del Campo, Anthony Navarro, Raquel Puerta Varo, Jose Sanchez Segovia, Thomas Mazon, Gloria Kampos, pigeon belmonte, Augustus’ Widows, Adolfo Rodriguez Nieto, and Juan Antonio Roche.