The exhibition opening was on Tuesday, 14 May at the Municipal Museum of Alzira (MUMA) and will remain there until 30 June. The exhibition highlights the importance of the role of female artists in the Martínez Guerricabeitia Collection, many of whom were invisibilised but who managed to subvert the parameters of the power that oppressed them.

The exhibition Art, Dolor i Compromís. Dones en la Col·lecció Martínez Guerricabeitia (Art, pain and commitment. Women in the Martínez Guerricabeitia Collection) arrives in the Valencian town of Alzira through the programme Universitat Societat of the Office of the Vice-Principal for Culture and Society of the UV, in collaboration with the Martínez Guerricabeitia Collection of the UV, the General Foundation of the UV, the City Council of Alzira, the Valencian Provincial Council and Caja Popular.

The exhibition has toured several Valencian towns and has been warmly received. Art, Dolor i Compromís shows the audience the work of female artists who were able to face the socio-political context that interferes with their autonomy as creators, and still managed to subvert the situation.

This exhibition also explains how several women are finally being given the deserved prestige that they lacked during their height of their artistic work. This Martínez Guerricabeitia Collection’s show gives focus to those artists who continue to reclaim their place in an androcentric artistic system.

Some of the artists represented in Art, Dolor i Compromís. Dones en la Col·lecció Martínez Guerricabeitia are Carmen Grau, Isabel Oliver, Carmen Calvo and the winner of the 2010 Martínez Guerricabeitia Biennial Mavi Escamilla.

The exhibition includes works by artists Manuela Ballester, Natividad Bermejo, Carmen Calvo, Victoria Cano, María Carbonell, Mavi Escamilla, Ana García Pan, Jacinta Gil Roncalés, Carmen Grau, Estefanía Martín Sáenz, Isabel Oliver, Ana Teresa Ortega, Paloma Pájaro, Mª Antonia Sánchez Escalona, Rosa Torres and Alicia Vela.