Coinciding with the centenary of her birth, Fundació Vila Casas presents an anthological exhibition of Maria Girona (Barcelona, 1923–2015), curated by Victoria Combalía and Àlex Susanna, which aims to help us discover her work and contribute to giving her the recognition she deserves, not just a non-academic rereading of Noucentisme but also an extraordinarily refined expression of a Mediterranean imaginary focused on visual stimuli from her magic triangle: Barcelona, Cadaqués and Calaceite.
Whilst it is true that Maria Girona’s rise is wholly nouncentista – she was after all the niece of the painter and critic Rafael Benet –, it is her stay in Paris from 1950 to...
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