Modern Basque Art Exhibition: From Zuloaga to Oteiza at Michel Mejuto Gallery

This exhibition presents fourteen sculptures and paintings from private collections, highlighting sixty years of artistic development in the Basque Country. It features works by twelve prominent artists who were deeply committed to the modern trends of their time.

The exhibition traces a sixty-year period of artistic production through a selection of twelve creators whose common thread is their profound engagement with the modernity of their era. The collection includes fourteen works, many of which are being exhibited in a gallery setting for the first time, while others have been featured in major museum retrospectives. The display captures the evolution of artistic thought, spanning from early twentieth-century painters to the vanguard sculptors of the mid-century period. The exhibition opens with iconic pieces by Ignacio Zuloaga and Juan de Echevarría, both created in Paris, and continues with colorful landscape interpretations by Francisco Iturrino and delicate still lifes by Fernando de Amárica. The selection also highlights the pre-war avant-garde through the cubist geometry of Jenaro Urrutia and surrealist elements by Nicolás de Lekuona. Sculptural works by Jorge Oteiza and Vicente Larrea, alongside a significant 1971 oil painting by Ruiz Balerdi, complete this survey of significant modern Basque art.

The exhibition was open to the public at the Michel Mejuto Gallery. Visitors are encouraged to contact the gallery directly for information regarding visiting hours or future exhibition access, as admission details were not explicitly stated for this event page aside from the dates provided.