Shining a light on Joaquín Sorolla
FINESTRAT town hall is organising a coach trip to the acclaimed exhibition ‘Sorolla through light’ at the Bancaja foundation in Valencia, on Saturday, January 27.
The exhibition is a coproduction between Light Art Exhibitions, the Sorolla museum, and Sorolla museum foundation.
Whilst on display in Madrid, the itinerant exhibition was visited by more than 180,000 people.
Commissioned by the great-granddaughter of the Valencian artist, Blanca Pons-Sorolla and the former director of the Sorolla museum, Consuelo Luca de Tena, the exhibition offers an innovative proposal in which the original works of Joaquín Sorolla are complemented by the experiences of sensory and virtual reality rooms.
The exhibition brings together 45 canvases dated between 1890 and 1920, which hail from the Sorolla museum, the Joaquín Sorolla museum foundation, the Hispanic Society of America, the Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, and the ABANCA and Esther Koplowitz collections, as well as from 20 private collections and the Bancaja foundation itself.
The set of works includes ‘pieces that are being presented for the first time in this exhibition, or are very little known to the public’, as well as some of Soralla’s masterpieces, such as ¡Triste herencia!, Después del baño (La bata rosa), or La vuelta de la pesca.
The exhibition is said to ‘review Sorolla's legacy from one of the essential particularities of his painting: his mastery of the pictorial expression of light’.
Tickets are €25 and include coach travel to the Bancaja foundation and admission to the exhibition.
Further information and tickets are available from https://agendafinestrat.es/