Embassies carry out a very important task in diplomatic relations, bilateral trade, in the promotion of Spanish products and also in the dissemination of the art of our country. The first time someone asked me to do an exhibition outside the country, it was José Luis Tapia, the Spanish ambassador to Bulgaria. We did an exhibition of Spanish painting at the National Gallery of Bulgaria in Sofia and it was so successful that we were asked to do another one for the year Bulgaria was the cultural capital of Europe, also at the National Gallery , but this time in the building that was the royal palace. The exhibition won the award for the best art exhibition in Bulgaria, precisely in that important year.
Thanks to José Luis Tapia, we contacted the Spanish ambassador to Poland, Francisco Javier Sanabria, who commissioned two exhibitions, one in Warsaw and another in Krakow, which we also held with remarkable success. The one in Krakow was attended by his wife María Victoria González, also an ambassador, now assigned to Copenhagen (Denmark), where she has had the opportunity to set up an exceptional exhibition of Sorolla, on the occasion of the King’s visit to that country.
Well, we were extremely lucky that the Sanabria-González couple accepted an invitation to Barcelona to prepare an upcoming exhibition of contemporary Spanish art in Copenhagen. In just three days, we were able to show them the Nau Gaudí de Mataró, where there is now an excellent exhibition of photography by Català-Roca and Ramon Manent; the museum of printing in Premià de Mar, where large-format works from our collection and, of course, the fund of the collection are exhibited. We also visited the studio of Rosa Codina, in Mataró, and we were able to say hello to the painter Enric Ansesa and his wife Dolors, in Girona.
A complete immersion in art, which has been worth it, because now the ambassador María Victoria González has more elements of judgment for that future exhibition in Copenhagen. Ambassador friends, congratulations on a job well done.
