The Museu De L'Art Prohibit opens in Barcelona with a collection dedicated to censored art. Promoted by business owner Tatxo Benet, the museum, located in Casa Garriga Nogués, holds more than 200 pieces that have been censored throughout history.
The Museu De L'Art Prohibit opens in Barcelona with a collection dedicated to censored art. Promoted by collector and business owner Tatxo Benet, the museum, located in Casa Garriga Nogués, holds more than 200 pieces that have been censored throughout history.
The Museu De L'Art Prohibit opens in Barcelona with a collection dedicated to censored art.
Last Thursday the Museu De L'Art Prohibit opened the doors of the Casa Garriga Nogués in Barcelona to show the first museum collection dedicated to art that has been censored or cancelled in different forms. The collection consists of more than 200 pieces that include artwork that goes from the XVIII century to the present, showing the work of artists like Francisco de Goya, Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso and Zoulikha Bouabdellah among many others, that the businessman Tatxo Benet started collecting in 2018 after one of the pieces he bought at ARCO Madrid art fair, Santiago Sierra´s Presos políticos en la España contemporánea, was censored and removed from tis booth after the first day at the fair.
The collection consists of more than 200 pieces that include artwork that goes from the XVIII century to the present, showing the work of artists like Francisco de Goya, Gustav Klimt, Pablo Picasso and Zoulikha Bouabdellah among many others.
After this incident with Sierra´s artwork, the collector started imagining a very singular collection based on works that were subjet to censorship, cancellation or any other form of attack against artistic creation. The museum's Manifesto states that “Far from amassing the wreckage that the abuse of power inflicts upon artistic creation, this collection embodies an unparalleled potential within our societies. Thus, the Museu de l’Art Prohibit showcases, alongside its exhibited artworks, examples of what we might term mass creativity manifested through boundless chains of memes.”
After this incident with Sierra´s artwork, the collector started imagining a very singular collection based on works that were subject to censorship, cancellation or any other form of attack against artistic creation.
For its first exhibition the museum has arranged a selection of 42 pieces that displays works by Ai Weiwei, Miquel Barceló, León Ferrari or Bansky. The museum is managed by Rosa Rodrigo as the museum director and Carles Guerra as artistic curator. Located in Casa Garriga Nogués, a historical modernism site in the city centre of Barcelona, this museum has a space of 2000 square metres to shelter this collection of artworks.
Located in Casa Garriga Nogués, a historical modernism site in the city centre of Barcelona, this museum has a space of 2000 square metres to shelter this collection of artworks.
The list of the most famous works includes; some of the well known “Caprichos” by Francisco de Goya, a drawing by Gustav Klimt, “Suite 347” by Pablo Picasso, photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, “Mao” by Andy Warhol, “Always Franco” by Eugenio Merino or the “Mc Jesu”s by Jeni Leinonen alongside some less known but equally remarkable pieces by artists such as, Mujeres Publicas collective, Ines Doujak and David Černý present through his iconic piece “Shark”.
The list of the most famous works includes; some of the well known “Caprichos” by Francisco de Goya, a drawing by Gustav Klimt, “Suite 347” by Pablo Picasso, photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, “Mao” by Andy Warhol, “Always Franco” by Eugenio Merino or the “Mc Jesu”s by Jeni Leinonen alongside some less known but equally remarkable pieces by artists such as, Mujeres Publicas collective, Ines Doujak and David Černý present through his iconic piece “Shark”.