Imaginary cartography of the Suñol Soler Collection (1960–1980)

The Archipelago mapped out in the exhibition presents the Suñol Soler Collection as a visual map of Spanish artistic creation between 1960 and 1980, which was the focus of the collecting interests of its owner, Josep Suñol Soler. Formed mainly during that period, in parallel with the artistic phenomena that Suñol was compiling, this collection was nourished by direct acquisitions from artists or through the leading galleries of the time, and especially thanks to his friendship and collaboration with the gallery owner and art promoter Fernando Vijande.

The collage of more than forty images that we have extracted from the eclectic “Suñol archipelago” evokes the idea of the collection from which the works originate (with its preferences and absences), interweaving and contrasting different languages; international trends infiltrate Spanish ones; other chronologies are mixed (from the 1920s to the 1990s); the mainstream (the great references of international and Spanish modernity in the 20th century) coexists with more adventurous or less commercial expressions, and contemporary art is reflected upon through five concepts that recur in its multiple artistic manifestations.