Estepona Town Hall and the Museo Carmen Thyssen have presented the artistic project that will inaugurate the new cultural facility.
The exhibition will be open from March to September 2023 and will feature 50 works from the Baroness’s collection, a panorama of Spanish art.
On Monday in Malaga, Estepona town council and the Museo Carmen Thyssen presented the artistic project that will inaugurate the new cultural facility “El Mirador del Carmen”, currently under construction on the Avenida de España in the coastal town, next to the lighthouse.
For its inauguration, a selection of fifty works from the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection will be exhibited, over 600 square meters of floor space, for a period of six months, from March to September 2023.
The Mirador del Carmen is an enclave that will consolidate the city as a cultural city open to the sea, thanks to the building designed by architect Salvador Moreno Peralta, as Estepona mayor José María García Urbano explained on Monday.
The exhibition that will open the viewpoint will propose a journey through Spanish art, from Romanticism to Pop Art, and the museum team is working on the discourse and content of the exhibition by drafting a catalog.
A catalog which, according to Artistic Director Lourdes Moreno, “has enabled us to delve deeper into the intense work carried out by the Baroness as a collector of Spanish art”.
Spanish artists featured in the exhibition include Fortuny, Sorolla, Rusiñol, Casas, Bores, Amalia Avia and Menchu Gal, among others.
The museum worked on defining the exhibition spaces at El Mirador del Carmen in terms of accessibility, space layout, lighting and air conditioning.
Carmen Thyssen says she is “in love” with each of the paintings.
“I’m proud to exhibit them and for people to realize the quality of the paintings and the artists,” says the Baroness.
It’s a way of strengthening the collaboration between the two institutions, which began in 2018 with the aim of bringing art and culture closer to the citizens of Estepona.
According to José María Urbano, the Baroness’s contribution will enable the municipality to boost its cultural and artistic offering.
“I’m delighted. We were asked to collaborate, and both the museum and the Carmen Thyssen collection have contributed their experience to make it a success and ensure its continuity over time”, said the Baroness.
