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Cubism Exhibition in Alicante

The Gravina Museum of Fine Arts of Alicante (Mubag) will be the venue for the exhibition Cubismo y tendencias afines (Cubism and similar tendencies) until 20th May 2007.

Works from the Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Bolivarian Republic in Venezuela which brings together 74 works of painters representing cubism such as Picasso, Braque or Juan Gris. The Mubag display, which covers the different stages of this style, is to be seen for the first time in Europe.

Of the 74 pieces seven are sculptures and 67 are paintings. Of the latter one can contemplate 44 oils, ten gouaches, eight works carried out in pencil or collage and another five in ink, watercolour or wash technique.

The exhibition brings together works by the main representatives of Cubism such as Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Andrée Lhote, Robert Delaunay, Jean Metzinger, Fernand Léger, Albert Gleizes and Maríe Laurencin, as well as similar artists such as Umberto Boccioni, Sonia Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp and Kasimir Malevich. The display reflects, moreover, the relationship of Picasso and the first cubists with the American artists of this trend, such as the Venezuelans Armando Barrios, Alejandro Otero and Oswaldo Vigas. Also appearing are the Cubans Wifredo Lam, Cundo Bermúdez, Mario Carreño and Amelia Peláez, the Ecuadorian Oswaldo Guayasamín, the Chilean Roberto Matta, the Uruguayan Joaquín Torres, the Brasilians Emiliano Di Cavalcanti and Cándido Portinari and the Mexicans Diego Rivera and Rufino Tamayo.

In the exhibition there are five pieces to be highlighted by the painter from Malaga Pablo Picasso, three oils and two drawings, as well as the sculptures and paintings of Georges Braque, Jean Metzinger, Juan Gris, Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Kasimir Malevich, Alejandro Otero and Diego Rivera. The exhibition Cubismo y tendencias afines, sponsored but the Cajamurcia Foundation and the Alicante County Council, is to be seen for the first time in Europe.

For information on opening times etc, go to:- http://www.mubag.org/inicio.html