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On its fifteen anniversary, Es Baluard proposes a new museography based on the work of activating, researching and promoting the art of the main driver behind the museum, Pere A. Serra (S贸ller, Mallorca, 1928 鈥� Palma, 2018).

Taking as a reference the book Mem貌ries d鈥檜n museu (Memories of a Museum) which shows the most prominent works the Fundaci贸 d鈥橝rt Serra deposited at Es Baluard, the artistic department and the director have linked the analysis of the works in the Collection to a selection of the most representative pieces. The three concepts that enable us to order the connecting theme of this new museography are based on three centres of interest, broad areas into which we can delimit themes and styles: landscapes, figures and abstraction.

Torrent de Pareis, Mallorca by Joaquim Mir, is an essential painting in that it allows us to embark on an analysis of the significance of landscape painting in Mallorca. Other key pieces, like those produced by Antoni Gelabert, Santiago Rusi帽ol, Hermen Anglada-Camarasa, Joaqu铆n Sorolla or Sebasti脿 Junyer Vidal, serve as a turning point in terms of speaking of it, and enable us to understand an incipient Mir贸 who recreates his Paysage de Mont-roig in 1916. Gateways to the abstraction which we can also see in the following group of works, like the outstanding Haven Palma by Leo Gestel or Escena de la Guerra Civil Espa帽ola by Wifredo Lam. This halfway point between practices which began to experiment with the form and the line in synthesis, can also be appreciated in different paintings which reveal a hybridisation of them. But nothing is more concrete than the recreations of lifestyles close to the context of the Mallorcan period, as reflected by Molinar amb gent by Ricard Anckermann or Esperant els nuvis by Pilar Montaner de Sureda. Human figures which, in an evolution of styles and different periods, as art history explains, are reflected in the selection of works corresponding to Fernand L茅ger, Georg Baselitz, Pablo Picasso and Maria Carbonero. The latter, a painter from Palma, belongs to the young generation of creators who became prominent in the late 鈥榚ighties and early 鈥榥ineties, and received a great deal of support from Pere Serra. All of them 鈥� Amador, Joan Benn脿ssar, Rafa Forteza, Men茅ndez Rojas, Pep Canyelles, Teresa Matas, Josep M. Alcover, among others 鈥� are represented by the pieces of Ramon Canet and Maria Carbonero. And in allusion to the new paths embarked on by experimental pictorial practices of which the collector鈥檚 great friend, the painter Juli Ramis, reveals a wide range in his works, in the exhibition room we can find works by international artists 鈥� Elmyr de Hory, Andr茅 Masson, Roberto Matta, Hans Hartung or Rebecca Horn 鈥� but above all by the Spaniards Mar铆a Blanchard, Antoni T脿pies, Manolo Millares or Josep Guinovart.

In addition to all these, we complete the selection with a series of artists鈥� books, significant productions from a time when work on paper also enabled a contribution to the dissemination of artists from the local context.