Manolo Gil: Album
This year 2025 marks the centenary of the birth of the artist Manolo Gil (Valencia 1925-1957), one of the most admired and important creators of the generation of artists of the post-war avant-garde in Spain, who died prematurely at the age of 32.
A cultured and well-traveled man, his plastic work was profoundly innovative and in continuous mutation. A founding member of the first post-war avant-garde group in Valencia, Grupo Z (1947-1950), he was also the ideologist and promoter 鈥� together with art critic Vicente Aguilera Cerni 鈥� of Grupo Parpall贸 (1956-1961).
Between 1992 and 1995 the IVAM added to its collection more than three hundred works by Manolo Gil, donated by his widow, the artist Jacinta Gil. Along with this collection of works, the museum鈥檚 Library and Documentation Center was also gifted with the donation of an album of more than two hundred pages made by Jacinta Gil that meticulously documents his entire career and the critical fortune of the artist after his death. Together with small catalogs, writings and documents from the period between 1945 and 1971, Jacinta Gil patiently assembled a selection of unpublished drawings that are shown for the first time in this exhibition.
This exhibition is conceived as a small tribute to the figure of Manolo Gil and is structured as a timeline based on materials extracted from the album and shown in dialogue with a representative selection of works from all the different stages of his career. At the same time, it acts as a prologue to the exhibition Atreverse a m谩s, which will be on view at IVAM at the end of 2025, a project that will revisit Valencian art between 1947 and 1960 that is being curated by Ramon Escriv脿 and Nacho Par铆s.
This year 2025 marks the centenary of the birth of the artist Manolo Gil (Valencia 1925-1957), one of the most admired and important creators of the generation of artists of the post-war avant-garde in Spain, who died prematurely at the age of 32.
A cultured and well-traveled man, his plastic work was profoundly innovative and in continuous mutation. A founding member of the first post-war avant-garde group in Valencia, Grupo Z (1947-1950), he was also the ideologist and promoter 鈥� together with art critic Vicente Aguilera Cerni 鈥� of Grupo Parpall贸 (1956-1961).
Between 1992 and 1995 the IVAM added to its collection more than three hundred works by Manolo Gil, donated by his widow, the artist Jacinta Gil. Along with this collection of works, the museum鈥檚 Library and Documentation Center was also gifted with the donation of an album of more than two hundred pages made by Jacinta Gil that meticulously documents his entire career and the critical fortune of the artist after his death. Together with small catalogs, writings and documents from the period between 1945 and 1971, Jacinta Gil patiently assembled a selection of unpublished drawings that are shown for the first time in this exhibition.
This exhibition is conceived as a small tribute to the figure of Manolo Gil and is structured as a timeline based on materials extracted from the album and shown in dialogue with a representative selection of works from all the different stages of his career. At the same time, it acts as a prologue to the exhibition Atreverse a m谩s, which will be on view at IVAM at the end of 2025, a project that will revisit Valencian art between 1947 and 1960 that is being curated by Ramon Escriv脿 and Nacho Par铆s.
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