The Valencià Institute of Modern Art (IVAM) pays tribute to the Alicante artist Juana French on the occasion of the centenary of his birth with an anthological exhibition which, after passing through the IVAM Alcoy and the Niemeyer Center in Avilés, delves into his life and his artistic journey and is enriched with previously unpublished pieces.
As part of the exhibition, visible until March 2025, this Thursday, November 28, the curator and curator of the IVAM, Mª Jesús Folch, in collaboration with Mónica Pérez Blanquer, cultural manager specializing in theater, will offer the conference ‘ Here the gods also live.”
There they will reveal the keys to an exhibition which claims the role of the work of Juana Francés in the history of Spanish artbeyond its contribution to informalism, as the Generalitat explains in a press release.
During the conference they will discuss the exhibition, visible in room 4, “an exhibition that attempts to give a more intimate vision of the art of Juana Francés, analyzing the documentary traces taken from her personal archives, in discovering new intrigues from his career,” explained Mª Jesús Folch.
More than a hundred pieces and their inspiration
This project studies the entire production of Juana Francés through 131 pieces of painting, sculpture, engraving and drawingcoming mainly from the four Spanish museums and art centers that keep his work: the IVAM, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Alicante, the Reina Sofía National Museum and the Aragonese Institute of Art and Culture contemporary Pablo Serrano.
The exhibition also stops to examine his sources of inspiration, such as the influence that the generation of 98, the Theater of the Absurd, technological and industrial progress and interstellar travel had on his work.
In addition, the exhibition brings together an important documentary collection (120 documents) coming not only from the personal archives of Juana Francés, located in the IAACC Pablo Serrano from Zaragozabut also the Fernández del Amo Family Archives in Madrid, the Documentation Center for Performing Arts and Music (CDAEM) INAEM – Ministry of Culture and Sports, the libraries and documentation centers of the MNCARS and IVAM.
