The exhibition, part of the official program "100 years of the death of Joaquín Sorolla", is a project produced by Cultura en Vena, within its Ambulatory Art program, with the collaboration of the Museum and the Sorolla Foundation and Acción Cultural Española, with the objective of exploring the potential of Sorolla's painting from themes that can be understandable or similar from those contexts: time itself, the observation of matter, of the body and the ambivalence of nature (the sea, the land, the light), going beyond idealizations or clichés.In short, the diversity and depth of the aesthetics that his works offer, observed and reinterpreted from the perspective of the experience of health and well-being.
Ambulatory Art is a program of traveling exhibitions through hospitals and rural communities at risk of depopulation. Curated especially for patients and people from the rural community, each exhibition brings a new relationship between the cultural event, the viewer and the hospital or rural environment, in a totally accessible way. The objective is to intervene public and private hospital spaces and public spaces of the town, with works from recognized and emerging artists, as well as contents from the main museums, foundations and art galleries in the country.
The exhibition has 24 reproductions of works by the Valencian painter from different museums: the Sorolla National Museum (11), the Carmen Thyssen Museum in Malaga (7), the Prado National Museum (2), the Asturias Museum of Fine Arts (2), the D'Orsay (1) and Hispanic Society of America (1), etc. As in all the exhibitions of the Ambulatory Art program, the reproductions of the works are accompanied by mediation texts specially created for patients, health personnel and inhabitants of rural communities, connecting characteristics of the works (pictorial, historical, thematic, symbolic, etc. ) with aspects related to health and well-being.
The exhibition is accompanied by concerts with repertoire associated with the theme of the exhibition. On this occasion, a concert is proposed with an audiovisual format and an inspiring title: Sorolla. A musical imaginary. What do Joaquín Sorolla's paintings sound like? What rhythms and melodies could illustrate his portraits, the fishing scenes or his Mediterranean beaches? What relationship does all this have with the health and well-being of people?
