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| Acciona promotes el Prado’s paintings in Australia Acciona, the Spanish infrastructure, renewables, water and services group, will promote "Portrait of Spain", an exhibition of paintings from Madrid's Prado Museum scheduled for summer 2012 at the Queensland Art Gallery in Brisbane, Australia. The show will display around one hundred works (80 oil paintings and 20 carried out on paper) which condense the history of Spain and trace the historical development of painting in the country from the 16th century up to the early 20th. The Chairman of Prado Museum's Board of Trustees, Plácido Arango, and the Chairman and the Executive Director of Art Exhibitions Australia (AEA), Harold Mitchell and Carol Henry, under the auspices of Spain's Minister of Culture, Ángeles González-Sinde, signed an agreement on the future exhibition. Acciona is to collaborate on the art show as a Benefactor Member of the Prado Museum's international exhibitions program, in an effort to take Spanish culture across the globe. With the coming event-part of the Museum's "Prado International" exhibitions program-Acciona takes on the role of a unique ambassador for Spanish culture in Australia, a country in which the Company boasts a longstanding presence in the fields of infrastructures, renewables and water management. "Portrait of Spain. Masterpieces from the Prado" is El Prado's first-ever exhibition in Australia and marks a major milestone in the Spanish gallery's program of international exhibitions, which includes previous shows held in Japan and China and the current exhibition at Russia's State Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg. The exhibition has been organized with the scientific supervision of the Prado's Head of Conservation of Spanish Painting up to 1700, Javier Portús, and thanks to the efforts of Art Exhibitions Australia, a not-for-profit organization which has been behind major art shows in Australia in collaboration with high-profile institutions including London's Tate Gallery, the Louvre, Picasso and Quai d'Orsay museums of Paris, and Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, as well as major US museums and galleries such as New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). write your comments about the article :: © 2011 Construction News :: home page |