On 16th March a new museum of arts by Baroness Thyssen opens in Andorra, Escaldes. All-Andorra.com is talking to the Art Director of the museum, Guillermo Cervera about the first exhibition’s content and his vision of the modern art market today:
Which artists’ work will be presented in the museum’s first exhibition? From which periods of creativity will they be?
In total, the collection will contain 26 paintings. The exhibition opens with paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet, Paul Gauguin, Paul Signac, Henry le Sidaner; as well as by American Impressionists John Henry Twachtman, Theodore Robinson and Maurice Prendergast.
The exhibition continues with a fine selection of paintings by Catalan modernists – Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa, Ramon Casas, Eliseu Meifrèn and Joaquin Mir Trinxet.
Other paintings include: works of art by the expressionists Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Max Pechstein. Walt Kuhn presents an American realism piece, the Russian artist Varvara Stepanova presents some work from the cubism era, Henri Matisse some fauvism concepts, and Joaquín Torres García will include an abstract constructivism.
US photo realism is presented by Charles Bell, Richard Estes and Lowell Blair Nesbitt.
What are the policies regarding the content of the first exhibition? Why did you choose these artists and these art trends?
The exhibition’s title – “Escenaris: de Monet à Estes; de Trouville à Nova York” (“Scenarios: from Monet to Estes; from Trouville to New York”) is a metaphor: there is a connection between all of these paintings. Chronology shows that all these artists were in search of something new, the selected paintings contain something new in the creation of each of them. It is the search, psychological and social, which is reflected in all the paintings exhibited.
I thought to start with a long term first exhibition. The duration of this exhibition will be 10 months (from 16th March 2017 to 14th January 2018). It was prepared in such a way as to interest the maximum number of tourists coming to Andorra. The tourists who come in the winter are different from those who come here in the summer.
How long did it take to agree on the issues and conditions necessary for the successful opening of the exhibition?
We have been working for about 2 years on the creation of this exhibition. But on a technical level it has been only one year. The work was very intensive, we worked 7 days a week, to get where we are today.
Whose idea was it to open a museum in the old building of the hotel Valira?
We’ve been looking for a building in the centre of Andorra’s tourist district for a long time. It was difficult to find the right place where we could make a museum of such high quality. I do not remember exactly who suggested the first floor of the Hotel Valira, but this idea seemed very promising. The building is well located, it has an interesting and beautiful history, which is also important for the aura of the museum.
Who is the owner of the building?
It is a private property, the building belongs to the Andorran Ribas family.
Who is responsible for the technical issues, such as security?
I am, as director of the museum, responsible for all these types of issues, including security signaling, maintaining the desired temperature in the building, the ventilation air system, and for constant cooperation with the police and fire department. But we are certainly working closely with the Andorran government on all these issues directly as well.
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