The Hortensia Herrero Center for the Arts is celebrating its second anniversary. In just two years, the space housing Hortensia Herrero’s private collection has become one of the reference cultural spaces in the city of Valencia … It received 400,000 visitors from all over the world. In conjunction with this anniversary, the Center announced the arrival of its first temporary exhibition: Starting April 28, it will host the first exhibition by the German artist. Anselm Kiefer In the capital, Turia, until the end of October.
The exhibition, centered around the theme of landscape, was designed specifically for this space Unique piecescup. Specifically, the exhibition will consist of dozens of large-scale works, including one of the largest works Kiefer has completed to date, “Danny”, which is more than thirteen meters wide. In addition, this will be the first time this piece can be seen in Europe, as it was only shown in New York in 2022.
Thus, the works of the contemporary art artist will be displayed Six showrooms The art center, which will dismantle the works in these rooms to make room for its work.
Along these lines, the exhibition aims to delve deeper into the themes of the works in the collection, which focus on landscapes. For this reason, the exhibition includes works that affect… Aesthetic view Which, along with history, mythology and literature, constitute the central core and main source of inspiration for the German artist.
The selected works offer a journey through the artist’s symbolic world, and have been meticulously selected by Kiefer and Hortensia Herrero, who traveled to the artist’s studio in Barjac and Paris, to learn more about his work and participate in the selection.
The relationship between Hortensia Herrero and Kiefer began nearly ten years ago when the art collector acquired the painting “Flowers of Evil,” which was part of the Royal Academy of Arts’ Summer Exhibition in 2016. It is a work that can be seen in the main room of the Art Center alongside two other works by Anselm Kiefer that are on permanent display.
As CAHH’s artistic advisor and curator, Javier Molins, explains, “Anselm Kiefer is one of the pillars of the Hortensia Herrero collection, whose works are on display in the Noble Room of the palace, and we thought it was a great way to start CAHH’s temporary exhibitions.”
The rise of international audiences
The Hortensia Herrero Arts Center celebrates its second anniversary today, November 11. In two years, 400,000 visitors have been able to enjoy the private collection of Hortensia Herrero, one of the most important international collectors, listed Top 200 collectors From ARTnews magazine.
Although the majority of attendees were local (70%), their weights remained stable and even decreased in recent months. On the other hand, the presence of international audiences is increasing at the national level (9%) and above all at the international level (21%). Among visitors from other countries, Germany, Italy and France particularly stand out.
To celebrate this second anniversary, CAHH has prepared a series of activities and events that will take place during the week until Sunday and include a conversation between Jaume Plensa and Javier Molins, family activities, night visits and even a concert by the NoVI a cappella group.
Furthermore, on the occasion of this new exhibition, the Art Center intends to create new complementary activities and guided tours to once again attract the local audience.
About Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer was born in 1945 in Donaueschingen, Germany. In 1992 he moved to France, where he lives and works between Paris and Barjac, near Avignon. The artist studied law, literature and linguistics before entering the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, and later in Düsseldorf, where he was a student of Joseph Beuys. In 1980, he was selected to represent the West German Pavilion at the 39th Venice Biennale, and his work has since been shown in prominent international solo exhibitions, in prestigious museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago (1987); National Gallery Berlin (1991); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1998); Beyeler Foundation, Basel (2001); the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao (2007); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014); Center Pompidou in Paris (2015); The French National Library (2015); Albertina Vienna (2016); The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg (2017); the Rodin Museum in Paris (2017); Or Met Breuer in New York (2018); Among many other things.
Kiefer was awarded the Praemium Imperiale from Japan in 1999, and in 2008 he received the German Book Trade Peace Prize. In 2007, he became the first artist since Georges Braque to receive a commission for a permanent installation at the Louvre in Paris, and in 2018 his site-specific sculpture Uraeus was displayed in front of the Rockefeller Center in New York. In 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron commissioned Anselm Kiefer to create a permanent facility for the Pantheon in Paris.
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