Museu de l’Art Prohibit Opening

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Located in the modernist style house Garriga Nogués, by Enric Sagnier i Villavecchia, on Carrer de la Diputació, the Museu de l’Art Prohibit (Museum of Prohibited Art) will open its doors to the general public on October 26, 2023, to exhibit more than two hundred works that the journalist and entrepreneur Tatxo Benet has acquired in recent years.

All works have a common denominator: they have been censored, banned or denounced for political, social or religious reasons at some point. This unique offer makes it the first and only museum in the world to exhibit artistic pieces of this kind. Benet expresses it this way: "When I started acquiring works with this characteristic and thinking about exhibiting them in a museum, I thought the idea already existed. But no. It turns out that no one had ever been interested." The museum has been made possible thanks to the collection that Benet has gathered in just five years and the work of more than three years by Rosa Rodrigo, director of the museum, coming from the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid, and Carles Guerra, artistic director of the museum, who was director of the Virreina Center de la Imatge, chief curator of the MACBA and executive director of the Antoni Tàpies Foundation between 2015 and 2020.

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