All the faces of Anglada Camarasa
The Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya exhibits the collection recently donated by the artist's family, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of the painter's birth.
Hermen Anglada Camarasa (Barcelona, 1871 - El Port de Pollença, Mallorca, 1959) is considered one of the most international Catalan painters. The fact that he spent most of his life outside Catalonia probably ended up distancing him from the collective imagination of the country, and he is not as popular as Casas, Mir, Nonell, Rusiñol or Marià Fortuny, and it goes without saying that he is not as popular as Dalí or Miró. But outside our borders his career had great significance and repercussions. On the other hand, he was a creator who wanted to control and manage his career and archive at all times. A collection that, coinciding with the 150th anniversary of his birth, the family gave to the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya. After a digitisation process carried out by the museum's Research and Knowledge Centre, the National Museum will be showing the materials from 10 February in an exhibition entitled Anglada Camarasa. The premeditated archive.
On display until 7 May and curated by Pilar Cuerva and Eduard Vallès, the exhibition is made up of photographs, notebooks and various documents from different periods contextualised with the artist's work. The collection of photographs, taken by Anglada Camarasa in the early 20th century and as part of his creative process, is particularly relevant. Visitors will find an exhibition that is somewhere between documentary and artistic, and which above all highlights the artist's mark around the world, especially in the years before and after the First World War.
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