Susana Rivas and Jesus Romero presented the wide range of museum offerings, including samples on García Gutiérrez, Pablo Neruda, Sebastian Gessa, Sorolla and Picasso, among other artists.
The municipal delegate of Culture, Susana Rivas, and the director of the Museum of Chiclana, Jesus Romero, have presented the wide and varied program of temporary exhibitions at the Museum of Chiclana for the current year 2023, in addition to the permanent exhibition. In this regard, indicate that until yesterday remained the sample 'The Illuminated Light. Christmas in the Miniated Codices', which comes from last year 2022, as well as the exhibitions 'Chiclana in 15 curiosities' by Manuel Montes Mira, which will continue until February 15; and 'Those people who were worth so much. The faces of the peseta' until March 12.
During the presentation, Susana Rivas explained that "this year, we give continuity to what began last year and will bring 22 exhibitions, along with those currently open to the public." "With all these samples we cater to all sensibilities, because we re-emphasize the importance of what is ours and the history of Chiclana. We have also worked to make visible the work of women who were not very taken into account at the time, as well as exhibitions that are attractive to the educational field, we retake others that we had to leave due to the pandemic and we will have many other samples that will make the public enjoy, confident that like because it has done a great job, "said the delegate.
For his part, Jesus Romero stressed that "we have tried to make a program that leaves no one indifferent. They are very diverse samples and seven of them have to do directly with Chiclana and its history. In addition, due to the exhibitions that we could not mount by the pandemic or those that were exposed very few days for that reason, we wanted to create a new section called 'Repesca', which will allow us to rescue samples that are worthwhile. Thus, we do that it is new what steps on the Museum for the second time".
As for the exhibitions that begin in this 2023, indicate that the first will be 'Guardia Civil en Playmobil', in which Enrique Caballero Espinosa pays tribute to his brother Victor Jesus (Tote), which opens next Thursday, February 9 and will remain until March 11. And also this February, specifically on February 23, the exhibition 'To be... Or not to be?', by Paco Abad, will be open until April 23 and in which, through the toy, an iconic moment of Shakespeare's work is staged. In this way, Barbie, Click, Pin y Pon, Coco, My Little Pony, among other characters, interpret Hamlet in their respective universes.
In the month of March, and with the upcoming arrival of Easter, José Manuel Vela Bolaños, current president of the Association of Nativity Scenes Maria Auxiliadora, will exhibit 'A great passion in miniature', in which visitors can learn more about the Holy Week of Chiclana through 16 replicas of the Steps of the brotherhoods of Chiclana. It will be able to be visited from March 16 to April 15. In addition, from March 17 to June 18 you can also see new prints in the exhibition 'Great Contemporary Engravers' by artists of the stature of Montserrat Gudiol, Amalia Avia, Saskia Moro, Carmen Laffón, Teresa Duclós, María Asunción Raventós and Concha Ibáñez, among others... And from March 23 to June 18 will remain the exhibition 'Scripta Manent', where we can approach the history of writing and the book, through writing tools, media, formats, bindings, ....
On the other hand, from April 26 to June 18 will be exhibited 'The handcrafted art recreated. Masterpieces in cross stitch', through which Consuelo Ruiz and Pilar Ledesma will take us to the Renaissance, Baroque and Modernism through their works. Also in April, on April 28, the exhibition '2003+20. Commemoration of commemorations', on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the celebrations for the VII Centenary of the city. The exhibition, which is carried out by the hand of the Scientific and Literary Athenaeum of Chiclana, will remain until June 18.
Precisely the month of June will premiere up to four exhibitions. The first of them, 'A requited love. Albertina and Neruda' begins on the 23rd and can be visited until August 20. It is an exhibition that opened in 2020, but the pandemic and confinement caused that it could hardly be visited and is resumed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Neruda. On the 27th, the exhibition 'Entre Duendes. Signos, trazos y retazos flamencos', which can be visited until August 27 and in which Ramón Pareja offers unique and personalized works and objects that are, at the same time, support of no less unique dedications.
And on June 30, two more exhibitions will be launched, 'Gessa, suma y sigue', in which paintings present in the Museum and never before shown to the public appear; and 'Carmen Espel. Another woman who painted (other flowers)', dedicated to Sebastian Gessa and in which we can enjoy works by the Catalan painter. Both exhibitions will remain on display until September 3.
The second half of the year begins with an exhibition commemorating the 210th anniversary of García Gutiérrez. In this sense, the exhibition '2013+10', will remain from July 5 to August 20. On August 24 will open the exhibition 'The Hidden Museum II', which can be visited until September 24 and which takes us to the intimacy of a collection that is born and grows perhaps without wanting to be. Paintings, drawings, engravings that decorate the walls of Mercedes Gonzalez's house in Chiclana and that not only refer to art, but also to the personal memory of the person who now generously shares them with the public.
The month of August will end with the opening of the exhibition 'The Battle of Sancti Petri Castle. September 1823', on the bicentenary of the seizure of the Castle of Sancti Petri by the French forces known as the Hundred Thousand Sons of St. Louis under the Duke of Angoulême. The exhibition will run from August 31 to October 29. And in September, on the 8th to be precise, the exhibition 'The Triumph of the Senses. From Romanesque to Gothic', which can be visited until November 25.
On the other hand, from October 3 to November 4 you can visit the exhibition 'Pastora, a decade in Chiclana, A devotion according to the people of Cádiz', on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the blessing and worship of the image of the Divine Shepherdess in Chiclana. And on November 8 the exhibition 'The story behind the stories. In the dramas of García Gutiérrez' about the real characters that support the dramatic fictions written by García Gutiérrez.
The Museum's temporary exhibition program closes with the show 'Mary Shelley and Frankenstein' from November 14, which returns five years after the success it achieved in 2018; and with the exhibition 'Sopirocallasso. Cruce de miradas', from December 5, which recognizes two of the most important names that Spain has given to the History of Art: Sorolla and Picasso.
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