From Picasso to Baldessari, the masters of engraving arrive at the Joaquín Peinado Museum of the Unicaja Foundation

Ronda/Fundación Unicaja Ronda has inaugurated its new exhibition 'GRÁFIKA. From Picasso to Baldessari. Masters of contemporary engraving in the Art Collection of Fundación Unicaja’, which shows the public the graphic art section of the institution through about thirty works by artists such as Tàpies, Miró, David Hockney, and Guinovart, among others.

The head of Visual Arts at Fundación Unicaja, Emilia Garrido, has presented this exhibition at the Museo Fundación Unicaja Joaquín Peinado in Ronda, which has posed a challenge in terms of updating, preserving, valuing, and disseminating the graphic works collection of Fundación Unicaja, composed of more than 400 engravings from a wide variety of techniques by national and international artists.

The exhibition also includes works by artists like Miró. / Javier Flores

The exhibition, which comes to Ronda after its time at the Centro Cultural Fundación Unicaja de Almería, offers a journey through the history of contemporary engraving with a collection of thirty engravings from the 20th and 21st centuries by artists such as Joan Miró, Antonio Tàpies, David Hockney, Anish Kapoor, Josep Guinovart, Sonia Delaunay, Luis Gordillo, Juan Muñoz, Isabel Baquedano, Susana Solano, Antonio Saura, Jan Hendrix, José María Sicilia, John Baldessari, and José Guerrero, among others, highlighting the stylistic richness and diversity of techniques present in this discipline. Additionally, this exhibition aims to create a dialogue between the work of important contemporary authors who saw graphic work as a useful and effective way to develop their valuable and recognized plastic works.

"With this exhibition, Fundación Unicaja Ronda is committed to the dissemination and enhancement of a prominent section of its cultural and artistic legacy to make it available to the public with the goal of providing them with an access point to the history of art and culture," the entity explained.

Picasso is also present as an engraver. / Javier Flores

The exhibition ‘GRÁFIKA can be visited until October 5th from Monday to Sunday from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM and from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM, and on holidays from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM.