Beyond black. The colour printing in the collection of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum is taking part in the 6th edition of the Bilbao International Printmaking and Work on Paper Festival with an exhibition devoted to the subject of colour printing as an expressive element of the work of art and featuring 59 prints from its extensive holdings of graphic art.
The museum has collaborated with FIG Bilbao since the first edition of the festival in 2012. Every year since that date it has organised associated exhibitions. This collaboration reflects the museum's long-standing focus on the study and dissemination of work on paper, based on its extensive holdings of more than 10,000 works, of which more than 3,000 are prints. In recent years the museum has organised numerous exhibitions devoted to works on paper based on its own holdings.
Since it was first launched the Bilbao International Festival of Printmaking and Art on Paper has combined its commercial facet with a focus on promoting knowledge, research and appreciation of graphic work with the aim of disseminating the culture of printmaking, attracting the public and strengthening the art market. It is within this context that the festival is now the sponsor of the museum's exhibition Beyond Black. Colour printing in the collection of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum.
The exhibition is part of an extensive annual programme of activities that includes exhibitions, round tables and encounters relating to emerging printmaking. This series of events culminates with the FIG Bilbao Fair, to be held between 16 and 19 November at the Palacio de Congresos y de la M煤sica Euskalduna, an event that will project Bilbao internationally and particularly in the Atlantic region as a key centre for both the market and study of works on paper.
On this occasion FIG Bilbao and the museum have opted for an educational project through the organisation of an exhibition on the history of colour printing from its origins to the present, based on 59 works from the collection. They have been selected by Javier Novo, head of the museum's Collections Department, whose text in the accompanying catalogue represents a significant contribution to the literature on printmaking in Spain.
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The Bilbao Fine Arts Museum is taking part in the 6th edition of the Bilbao International Printmaking and Work on Paper Festival with an exhibition devoted to the subject of colour printing as an expressive element of the work of art and featuring 59 prints from its extensive holdings of graphic art.
The museum has collaborated with FIG Bilbao since the first edition of the festival in 2012. Every year since that date it has organised associated exhibitions. This collaboration reflects the museum's long-standing focus on the study and dissemination of work on paper, based on its extensive holdings of more than 10,000 works, of which more than 3,000 are prints. In recent years the museum has organised numerous exhibitions devoted to works on paper based on its own holdings.
Since it was first launched the Bilbao International Festival of Printmaking and Art on Paper has combined its commercial facet with a focus on promoting knowledge, research and appreciation of graphic work with the aim of disseminating the culture of printmaking, attracting the public and strengthening the art market. It is within this context that the festival is now the sponsor of the museum's exhibition Beyond Black. Colour printing in the collection of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum.
The exhibition is part of an extensive annual programme of activities that includes exhibitions, round tables and encounters relating to emerging printmaking. This series of events culminates with the FIG Bilbao Fair, to be held between 16 and 19 November at the Palacio de Congresos y de la M煤sica Euskalduna, an event that will project Bilbao internationally and particularly in the Atlantic region as a key centre for both the market and study of works on paper.
On this occasion FIG Bilbao and the museum have opted for an educational project through the organisation of an exhibition on the history of colour printing from its origins to the present, based on 59 works from the collection. They have been selected by Javier Novo, head of the museum's Collections Department, whose text in the accompanying catalogue represents a significant contribution to the literature on printmaking in Spain.
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