Commitment to Art: From Miró to Barceló

The Bancaja Foundation and ABANCA present the exhibition "Commitment to Art. From Miró to Barceló," which brings together in Valencia a selection of the contemporary art holdings of both institutions and offers a retrospective view of the development of art across the 20th and 21st centuries. Curated by Fernando Castro Flórez, the exhibition sets the ABANCA and Bancaja Foundation collections in dialogue through a route that runs from the historical avant-gardes to the many forms of contemporary painting, with works dated between 1913 and 2023. It is part of the collaboration between the two institutions, which first presented the project at Afundación in A Coruña in October 2025 and now brings it to the Bancaja Foundation venue in Valencia with a renewed selection of works. The exhibition includes 86 works: 48 from the ABANCA Collection and 38 from the Bancaja Foundation holdings. More than a century of art is represented by 59 artists who shaped the main pictorial movements of the period in national and international art. The avant-garde section ranges from works by Picasso, Miró, Kandinsky, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Paul Klee, Joaquín Torres García, Marc Chagall, Giorgio De Chirico, André Lhote and Jean Metzinger to different approaches to contemporary painting by artists such as Manolo Valdés and Soledad Sevilla. The exhibition also traces the shifts in painting through key figures of Informalism, including Antonio Saura, Rafael Canogar, Manolo Millares and Antoni Tàpies, alongside artists associated with geometric rigor such as Eusebio Sempere and José María Yturralde. Abstract works by Sean Scully, José Manuel Broto, Antón Lamazares, José María Sicilia, Miguel Ángel Campano and Günther Förg, as well as pop and figurative approaches by Equipo Crónica, Luis Gordillo, Darío Villalba, Anzo, Juan Barjola, Juan Navarro Baldeweg and Miquel Barceló, reflect the vitality of painting without reducing it to a single linear or historicist narrative. The display also includes works linked to evocations of nature and the urban environment, with pieces by Miquel Navarro, Cristina Iglesias, Urbano Lugrís and Julian Opie.