Revello de Toro Museum will open itss
Revello de Toro Museum will open its doors in late November with the exhibition of 116 works.
Coinciding with the anniversary on Monday of the birth of Pablo Ruiz Picasso, another famous painter from Malaga, Felix Revello de Toro, has been celebrated as the first meeting of the foundation that manages the museum bearing his name and finally open its doors In late November, shuffled the 27 as day for the inauguration.
Historian Matthew Elias will be the manager of, final fantasy xiv gil, the Foundation Revello de Toro, in charge of the exhibition space located in the former home and studio of the imager Pedro de Mena, in the central street Afflicted. In the seventeenth century building will exhibit, after rehabilitation by PROMALAGA, 116 of the 132 works that the artist has given to his hometown for 15 years, renewable for periods of, neopoints neopets, five years.
Among the 116 works will be exhibited, which cover a broad period, from 1937 to 2010 -, are 42 oil paintings, seven posters, 65 drawings and sketches, a watercolor and a fan. For maximum enjoyment of these pieces, we want to give the museum a "dynamic" character.
Closed visits
To that end, traditional visits, to join the 'Encounters, buy gaia items, with Revello de Toro', so that, using the artist's presence in Malaga, various groups may see the works and to address their comments, as well as the 'Museum-to-door closed ', and that is, after 19.00, the associations and organizations who want a personalized, will be attended by the same De Mateo. "We will not exclude anyone," he Apostille latter reporters.
Regarding the structure of the museum, on the ground floor may be "the intimate Revello," according to De Mateo, with family portraits and still lifes. "It's a Revello unusual, not the portrait Revello and its major exhibitions," he explained.
The most spectacular painting Revello de Toro, reflected in his female figures, was located on the first floor, where there will be 22 oil paintings, while the second floor, install a mounting "novel" to expose the sketches and drawings.
With regard to temporary exhibitions, the first will be a montage about the posters created by the artist from Malaga to Malaga secular parties such as the Fair, Carnival, etcetera.
The sculptor Pedro de Mena will also have ownership in the house who saw him die, and that there will be an interpretive center dedicated to her figure, which showed a 10-minute documentary to tell his life and work and will have a final "striking "according to Matthew. In addition, there will be an interactive information point will direct the visitor to all places where there are works of religious images, not only in Malaga, but the rest of Spain and the world. EXTENSION
Since only the home workshop can not accommodate all the work donated and the elements Revello de Toro also provides for giving the city, as are his awards and his extensive archive, the museum is born with the goal of being expanded. To do this, will add an annex building situated at Don Juan de Malaga, which the City provides for the rehabilitation of four or five years.
And is that the more than 130 works on loan from himself Revello de Toro in addition to other, two of municipal assets, the oil 'My Three Graces' and the poster for the Feria de Agosto, 1988 -, 12 female faces Press Malaguena, two posters of the Citizen Foundation CarnivalThe Association another Coracha and another from the penalty The Biznaga.
In relation to the cost of museum admission, the proposal of the Board, which still must be approved, is to be free for students and seniors and it costs one euro to groups and around two the rest of the public.
However, in order to raise awareness of this cultural space, access will be free for all "until well into January," according to De Mateo, who has acknowledged the need to charge something, because "it is totally free end is not valued at all. "
Revello bull
"Overwhelmed" and "overwhelmed", Revello de Toro has shown Monday satisfied that "finally the day arrived, the day of supreme luck of the moment of truth, after five years of travel with hints that going to die. "
With the signing of the members of the board of this Foundation, "we made the summit task," stated Revello de Toro, who has asked to Malaga "a readiness to you to accept the works, so full of hopes and dreams" . For his part, Mayor, Francisco de la Torre, thanked the artist, "his most generous disposition."