OPPENING: “Roma, siempre Roma. Mujeres de la Academia en las Artes Visuales”, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Madrid
As part of this anniversary, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation will host the exhibition "Roma, siempre Roma. Women of the Academy in the Visual Arts", a selection of works by women who have been Academy scholarship holders and that will be part of the program of visits for collectors organized by ARCO.
In addition to the Academy's presence at ARCO Madrid, the exhibition "Roma, siempre Roma. Women of the Academy in the Visual Arts", a selection of works by women who were scholarship holders at the Spanish Academy in Rome, which will be part of ARCO's program of visits for collectors.
This is the first phase of an exhibition organized in the framework of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Academy and that aims to show the activity of some artists during their residency, offering the widest possible view of their work and their different expressive and technical languages. "Roma, siempre Roma" will bring together works from different disciplines -paintings, sculptures, drawings, engravings, photographs and videos- and authors, such as Paula Anta, Isabel Banal, Ángela Bonadíes, Pilar Cossío, Laura F. Gibellini, Diana García Roy, Inma Herrera, Susanna Inglada, Pilar Insertis, Jana Leo, Leire Mayendía, Blanca Muñoz, Sonia Navarro, Esther Pizarro, Beatriz Ruibal, Antonia Santolaya and Begoña Zubero.
The exhibition will continue in March with "Infinite looks, infinite forms", the second phase of this initiative, which will offer a universe of nuances and inspirations equally resulting from the Roman experience and the community life of the creators and researchers who share their lives during the months of their residence at the Academy. On this occasion it will feature works by Irma Álvarez-Laviada, Rosalía Banet, Nati Bermejo, Gabriela Bettini, Berta Cáccamo, Andrea Canepa, Naia del Castillo, Miren Doiz, Laura F. Gibellini, Yeyei Gómez, Begoña Goyenetxea, Isabel Martínez Marín, Rosell Messeguer, Clara Montoya, Ruth Morán, Sonia Navarro, Estíbaliz Sádaba, Shirim Salehi and Elo Vega.
For more than half a century, no woman enjoyed a scholarship at the Academy. The first was the composer María de Pablos Cerezo, in 1928. It was almost forty years before the second, María Teresa Peña Echeveste, received a scholarship for figure painting in 1965. This exhibition pays tribute to all of them.
