Professor Felipe Pereda, alongside Director Manuel Fontán del Junco from La Fundación Juan March, Recently Curated an exhibition entitled Zóbel. The Future of the Past in Madrid’s Museo Del Prado.
This exhibition displays 42 paintings, 51 sketchbooks and 85 drawings and graphic works from around the world to pay tribute to Fernando Zóbel. It approaches his work through the themes of the space between contemporary art and artistic tradition; as well as through themes of geographical nature within the vernacular traditions of the Philippines, Japan, and China that he encountered.
The exhibition will be available in Room C of the Jerónimos Building at the Museo del Prado, from 11/15/2022–3/5/2023.
Additionally, Professor Pereda contributed an Essay to Zóbel Read Lorca, Fernando Zóbel’s illustrated translation of Federico García Lorca’s Perlimplín In Love.
Published in November 2022, Zóbel Read Lorca contains the previously unreleased translation, while featuring essays from scholars such as Luis Fernández Cifuentes, Christopher Maurer, with Professor Felipe Pereda.
The book is available now from Swan Isle Press.