Opera Gallery, founded in 1994 by Gilles Dyan, has announced its exclusive and international representation of the estate of Juan Genovés. Take the baton Marlborough, a gallery that has represented the creator of ‘El abrazo’. Opera Gallery, specialized in modern and contemporary art and which also supports emerging art, had fifteen locations around the world: Paris, London, Monaco, Geneva, New York, Miami, Aspen, Dubai, Beirut, Singapore, Hong Kong, Seoul… Number 16 will be in Madrid. It will open its doors on May 12 in it Serrano street number 56, in the heart of the Salamanca district. The opening almost coincides with the date of Genovés’s death: May 15, 2020. He was 89 years old.
The new gallery occupies a space of about thousand square meters with three floors. The ground floor was a shoe store. It is not a usual place for Madrid galleries, which are generally located in more alternative neighbourhoods. Your director, Belen Herrera, explains that «the Opera Gallery venues are located in luxury districts and everything is taken care of in detail. In France, for example, it is located on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Although it is true that the Salamanca neighborhood is not a traditional art area, Juana Mordó’s first gallery was on Villanueva street».
For Belén Herrera, who has worked for two decades in Marlborough, it is “an honor and pride to have an artist as committed as Juan Genovés. He faced the blank canvas hand to hand, with an amazing mastery of perspective. The horizon always marked the surface of his painting, but he was far away and his bird’s-eye view that did not lose detail was, in short, the look of a photojournalist in the eye of the hurricane. His works are pieces of social commitment, his brushstroke, like the one he himself described by Goya, a brushstroke of protest in an apparent silence always shouting. Genovés shared the same nonconformity as Goya, denouncing and confronting the established power”. He has also represented Opera Gallery, for seven years, another Spanish artist: Manolo Valdés.
The Madrid headquarters will be inaugurated with ‘Loving Picasso’, a collective exhibition about Picasso and his influence in the 20th century. This adds to the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of his death. In addition to a dozen works by the artist from Malaga, names such as Miró, Chagall, Saura, Soulages, Barceló or Botero will be present, present with a portrait of Picasso made from a photograph of Brassai. All the pieces will be for sale, except one by Genovés that he did for a group show in retaliation against the attack by an extreme right-wing group on November 21, 1971, at the Theo gallery: about twenty works by the ‘Vollard Suite’ of Picasso. The Antonio Machado bookstore was also attacked. Juan Genovés recreated one of the famous ‘crying women’ from ‘Guernica’.
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