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Museo de Arte Abstraco Español
Casas Colgadas
Cuenca
Castilla-La Mancha
Spain
96 921 29 83
Type: Museum
Hours: Tues.-Fri. 11:00 am-2:00 pm and 4:00-6:00 pm, Sat. 11:00 am-2:00 pm and 4:00-8:00 pm, Sun. 11:00 am-2:00 pm
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Cuenca
Castilla-La Mancha
Spain
96 921 29 83
Type: Museum
Hours: Tues.-Fri. 11:00 am-2:00 pm and 4:00-6:00 pm, Sat. 11:00 am-2:00 pm and 4:00-8:00 pm, Sun. 11:00 am-2:00 pm
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During the last century the Casas Colgadas have been renovated and in 1966 the spectacular Museo de Arte Abstraco Español was established within them. The painter and collector Fernando Zóbel can be credited with creating this world-class museum during a period when Spain’s artists were once again growing bold and successful despite the lingering pall of Franco’s dictatorship.
In speaking to the writer James Michener in the 1960s while he was researching what would be his unequivocal and authoritative book on Spain, Iberia, Zóbel said, “Tell your friends who may be interested that these men are as good as Picasso and Miró were when they began.” They are, among others, the painters Antoni Tápies, Mompó, Tormer, Canogar and Zóbel himself.
Sculptors include Eduardo Chillida, Oteiza, Chirimo and Serrano, whose works decorate the angulated spaces and vast exhibition salons between numerous flights of stairs rising through coffered Mudéjar ceilings. All are lighted by Gothic lattice windows that look out into the air of the gorge above the river.
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