Embassies carry out very important work in diplomatic relations, in bilateral trade, in the promotion of Spanish products and also in the dissemination of the art of our country. The first time a person asked me to do an exhibition outside the country, it was José Luis Tapia, Spanish ambassador to Bulgaria. We had an exhibition of Spanish painting in the National Gallery of Bulgaria, in Sofia, and it was so successful that he asked us for another one for the year in which Bulgaria was the cultural capital of Europe, also in the National Gallery, but this time in the building that It was the royal palace. The exhibition won the award for the best art exhibition in Bulgaria, precisely that important year.
Thanks to José Luis Tapia we contacted the Spanish ambassador in Poland, Francisco Javier Sanabria, who commissioned us two exhibitions, one in Warsaw and another in Krakow, which we also carried out with notable success. The one in Krakow was attended by his wife María Victoria González, also an ambassador, now destined for Copenhagen (Denmark), where she has had the opportunity to mount an exceptional exhibition of Sorolla, on the occasion of the visit of the Kings to that country.
Well, we have been extremely lucky that the Sanabria-González couple accepted an invitation to Barcelona to prepare an upcoming exhibition of Spanish contemporary art in Copenhagen. In just three days, we have been able to show you the Nau Gaudí in Mataró, where there is now an excellent exhibition of photography by Català-Roca and Ramon Manent; the Premià de Mar Printing Museum, where large-format works from our collection and, of course, the collection’s collection are exhibited. We have also been to Rosa Codina’s studio, in Mataró, and we have been able to greet the painter Enric Ansesa and his wife Dolors, in Girona.
Quite an immersion in art, which has been worth it, because now ambassador María Victoria González has more elements of judgment for that future exhibition. Ambassador friends, congratulations on “la feina ben feta”.
