FoundationNovember 20, 2019
ARCO and the Meadows Museum team up to promote Spanish contemporary art in the US
The ARCO Foundation and the Meadows Museum in Dallas have signed a six-year agreement to promote Spanish contemporary art in the United States, through the MAS (Meadows / ARCO Artist Spotlight) program. The partnership will offer significant visibility to the work of Spanish artists in this American museum.
Every two years, the Meadows Museum will exhibit the work of an artist selected by both institutions. During the twelve months prior to each exhibition, a committee of Spanish professionals—composed by Lucía Casani, director of La Casa Encendida, Manuel Segade, director of the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, and collectors Pilar Lladó and Jimena Blázquez—will be responsible of the preselection of artists. The Meadows Museum’s Selection Committee will in turn choose one artist from the preselection. A total of three exhibitions—each lasting four months and consisting of one or more works—will begin on January 1, 2021, and continue in 2023 and 2025.
The collaboration between both institutions allows Fundación ARCO's knowledge of the artistic panorama in Spain to be combined with the Meadows Museum's leadership as a centre for Spanish art in the United States. To celebrate the signing of this agreement, from 19th November 2019 to 26th April 2020, the Meadows Museum will exhibit the work Untitled (2019) by Secundino Hernández, whose professional career has made him into one of the most internationally recognised artists of his generation.
The Fundación ARCO, founded in 1987, aims to promote the collection, research, and dissemination of contemporary art. Powered by IFEMA and instituted by a consortium—the Madrid City Council, the Community of Madrid, the Montemadrid Foundation, and the Madrid Chamber of Commerce—it complements the disseminating task of the ARCOmadrid International Contemporary Art Fair, and by extension, ARCOlisboa.
The Meadows Museum is the leading US institution focused on the study and exhibition of art from Spain. In 1962, Dallas businessman and philanthropist Algur H. Meadows donated his private collection of Spanish paintings and other funds to Southern Methodist University in order to create a museum, which opened to the public in 1965.
Every two years, the Meadows Museum will exhibit the work of an artist selected by both institutions. During the twelve months prior to each exhibition, a committee of Spanish professionals—composed by Lucía Casani, director of La Casa Encendida, Manuel Segade, director of the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, and collectors Pilar Lladó and Jimena Blázquez—will be responsible of the preselection of artists. The Meadows Museum’s Selection Committee will in turn choose one artist from the preselection. A total of three exhibitions—each lasting four months and consisting of one or more works—will begin on January 1, 2021, and continue in 2023 and 2025.
The collaboration between both institutions allows Fundación ARCO's knowledge of the artistic panorama in Spain to be combined with the Meadows Museum's leadership as a centre for Spanish art in the United States. To celebrate the signing of this agreement, from 19th November 2019 to 26th April 2020, the Meadows Museum will exhibit the work Untitled (2019) by Secundino Hernández, whose professional career has made him into one of the most internationally recognised artists of his generation.
The Fundación ARCO, founded in 1987, aims to promote the collection, research, and dissemination of contemporary art. Powered by IFEMA and instituted by a consortium—the Madrid City Council, the Community of Madrid, the Montemadrid Foundation, and the Madrid Chamber of Commerce—it complements the disseminating task of the ARCOmadrid International Contemporary Art Fair, and by extension, ARCOlisboa.
The Meadows Museum is the leading US institution focused on the study and exhibition of art from Spain. In 1962, Dallas businessman and philanthropist Algur H. Meadows donated his private collection of Spanish paintings and other funds to Southern Methodist University in order to create a museum, which opened to the public in 1965.
