{"id":24614,"date":"2024-04-07T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basqueluxury.com\/?p=24614"},"modified":"2024-04-08T07:04:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T07:04:20","slug":"george-baselitz-will-be-one-of-the-main-players-this-year-at-museo-wurth-la-rioja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basqueluxury.com\/en\/george-baselitz-will-be-one-of-the-main-players-this-year-at-museo-wurth-la-rioja\/","title":{"rendered":"George Baselitz will be one of the main players this year at Museo W\u00fcrth La Rioja"},"content":{"rendered":"

Museo W\u00fcrth La Rioja opened to the public on September 7, 2007 at the main logistics facility of the company W\u00fcrth Espa\u00f1a S.A., located in Agoncillo, La Rioja. Since then, the museum has implemented the W\u00fcrth Group’s international philosophy of art and culture as a social component, focused on promoting access to culture with special attention to the plastic arts. The museum has a total exhibition area of 3,100 m2<\/sup> and a sculpture garden measuring 11,280 m2<\/sup> where works from the W\u00fcrth Collection are displayed. This is one of the most important private collections of contemporary art in Europe. The W\u00fcrth Collection’s holdings currently comprise more than 20,000 pieces by some of the most fundamental creators of the history of art during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, such as Pablo Picasso, Louise Bourgeois, Anish Kapoor, Henry Moore, Edvard Munch, Eduardo Chillida, Andy Warhol, Anselm Kiefer, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, and Joan Mir\u00f3. In addition, the collection includes an “Old Masters” section, which brings together fundamental pieces of Central European medieval painting by artists such as Hans Holbein the Younger and Lucas Cranach the Elder.<\/p>\n

The philosophy of the collection is to combine spaces dedicated to culture and work, which is why the W\u00fcrth Museum Network places its museums in industrial areas. Currently, the collection has 15 spaces for art and culture in Europe that are active in terms of cultural and exhibition programming. In addition, the collection’s holdings are regularly lent to museums and shows around the world, sometimes on a permanent basis \u2013 such as the Walk of Modern Art in Salzburg, Austria.<\/p>\n

Last year, Museo W\u00fcrth La Rioja inaugurated the exhibition “Animality: Animal Images in the W\u00fcrth Collection,” which was open to the public until February 18, 2024. The exhibition explored how art depicts the different meanings behind animality through 150 pieces dating from 1875 to 2020 by 85 collection artists, including some of the most significant creators of recent decades such as Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, Andr\u00e9 Masson, Barry Flanagan, Xenia Hausner, Fernando Botero, Dieter Roth, and Georg Baselitz. It was precisely the latter artist, Georg Baselitz, who took over in the exhibition space in mid-March 2024. Baselitz was one of the essential artists of the revival of European painting in the 1970s; he was a player in the recovery of the gesture and subjectivity which characterized the Neo-Expressionism of the German \u201cNew Savages.\u201d Until the beginning of 2025, Museo W\u00fcrth La Rioja will have on display a selection of approximately 50 pieces \u2013all belonging to the W\u00fcrth Collection\u2013 featuring different dimensions, moments, and disciplines to illustrate Baselitz’s artistic career.<\/p>\n

Museo W\u00fcrth La Rioja is also the home to the W\u00fcrth Spain Collection, which features pieces by the most significant artists of the second half of the twentieth century (Miquel Barcel\u00f3, Manolo Vald\u00e9s, Richard Deacon, Miquel Navarro, and Jaume Plensa) and by noteworthy creators such as Tony Bevan, Jos\u00e9 Manuel Ballester, Tony Oursler, David Rodr\u00edguez Caballero, Xavier Mascar\u00f3, and Blanca Mu\u00f1oz. The spectacular large head by Manolo Vald\u00e9s (“Lillie”), an identifying piece of the museum, has presided over the main atrium of the building since its inauguration and is permanently displayed along with other pieces from the collection, including some site-specific works by Miquel Navarro, Richard Deacon, and Dar\u00edo Urzay.<\/p>\n

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