Virtual Talk | Just Do It: Museums as a Basic Need | Manuel Fontán del Junco | 04.04.2023

Further Afield provides a broad social, political, economic, and historical context for works of art at the museum. This spring Further Afield focuses on art, culture, and life in Francoist Spain (1939–75). These 45-minute talks take place exclusively online.

Just Do It: Museums as a Basic Need
Manuel Fontán del Junco, Director of Museums and Exhibitions, Fundación Juan March and Director of the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art, Cuenca
April 4 | 12:00 pm Central Time

During the 1960s Spain was governed by a dictatorship that had begun to have diplomatic relations with other European countries and the United States. The official cultural policy of the regime took advantage of this certain "openness" to present the work of abstract artists in international forums (the Venice and São Paulo biennials, above all), projecting an image of a modern country open to avant-garde art. In the interior of the country, however, legislation prevented freedom of expression and political association. Neither artists nor citizens had museums in which to exhibit and learn about modern and contemporary art until Fernando Zóbel decided on his own initiative to create a museum in 1966 in a small town, totally independent— intellectually, politically, and economically—of Franco's official cultural policy.

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