This year, Aurora Vigil-Escalera has brought together in its long-awaited summer exhibition works by Antoni Tàpies, Joan Miró, Luis Feito, Francisco Farreras, Manolo Millares, Antonio Saura, Amadeo Gabino, Joaquín Rubio Camín, Juan Barjola, Juan Genovés, Luis Gordillo and some other great artists. The gallerist from Gijón maintains that it is a selection “worthy of a museum”, “awaited by the most demanding collectors” and interesting for “anyone who wants to get started”. “Great masters. Ideas for a collector”, as the exhibition is titled, opens on June 28 and will remain in the room until August 28. Vigil-Escalera recommends making more than one visit, because the works will change as time goes by.
«Untitled», Luis Gordillo.
The gallery owner says that she has put special effort into the selection of the artists, all contemporary, national and Asturian, and in choosing the works. She has taken into account “its quality” and has tried to bring Asturian collectors closer to pieces that are currently inaccessible, “either due to their scarcity or their price.”
«Il Círculo de Piedra», Joan Miró.
Among the thirty pieces that he presents in Gijón there are sculptures, paintings, graphic works and also an intervened photo. Aurora Vigil-Escalera stands out among all of them “Nalón”, by Rubio Camín, “from the 60s and impressive”; “Inquisitor-Torquemada”, a work on burlap by Manolo Millares, from the same decade; “The Crucifixion” by Antonio Saura, from the mid-80s; also the oil paintings by Genovés. “There are very emblematic pieces and more affordable pieces; great masters and still accessible artists, who in a few years will be part of the list of great masters,” she says.
“Untitled”, Antonio Suárez.
“Great Masters” also wants to be, and as the art critic Juan Carlos Gea makes clear in his catalogue, a manifestation of “tribute, gratitude and confirmation of the survival of the contribution of creators whose greatest mastery was and continues to be that of audacity, limitless creativity and the awareness that, in art, the best teacher is the one capable of continuing learning indefinitely”.
Aurora Vigil-Escalera faces the summer with this exhibition. After the summer holidays he will return to activity with a monograph by Gorka García, already in autumn.
