SPANISH ICONS

Enrique Asensi – Carmen Calvo – Naia del Castillo – Susy Gómez – Joan Hernández Pijuan – Guillem Nadal – Paloma Navares – Javier Pérez – Jaume Plensa – Bernardí Roig – José María Sicilia – Antoni Tàpies – Juan Uslé

After more than half a century of exhibition activity, we are dedicating this year’s Salzburg Festival exhibition, “Spanish Icons,” to a key focus of the gallery: art from the Mediterranean region.

Over the past few decades, we have presented a multitude of Spanish artists in Austria for the first time – including Antoni Tàpies, whose key work “Les mains” will be on display, and Bernardí Roig, whose “Frost” embodies the text of Thomas Bernhard in sculptural form. The exhibition will feature Susy Gómez’ iconic “Blow Ups” and Paloma Navares’s photographic odes to famous women, as well as Joan Hernández Pijuan’s paintings – deeply connected to the Spanish landscape – and Juan Uslé’s abstract works characterized by rhythmic patterns and vibrant colors. Also included are Carmen Calvo, the first woman to represent Spain at the Venice Biennale (1997), and Javier Pérez (Venice Biennale 2001), who presented his “Carousel of Time” in the Karl-Böhm-Saal during the Salzburg Festival in 2012.