On Wednesday 15 June it was formalised the signature of four new agreements at the Boardroom of La Nau, by which the UV increases its cultural heritage. Among the donors there are two families of artists, Jesús Castelló’s and Paco Bascuñan’s, the photojournalist J. García Poveda (“El Flaco”) and Vicent Álvarez, who is to be director of the legal services of the Universitat de València and a member of the Valencian Culture Council. At the event there was also present the Vice-Principal for Culture and Equality, Antonio Ariño.
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Esteban Morcillo, Principal of the Universitat de València, has greatly appreciated this new generous gesture towards the institution, which allows increasing the art collection owned by the UV and provides it with even more qualitative value. This collection, at the same time, contributes to preserve a large amount of sculptural, pictorial and graphic works that are representative for the Valencian society and its great artists.
These donations are added to the ones made in the past weeks by the chairmen Julio Marín and Román de la Calle and demonstrate, one more time, the interest and confidence that artists, artists’ families and personalities of the art world have in the UV and its heritage catalogue.
In this occasion, the brothers and heirs of the Valencian artists Jesús Castelló, whose sculptural work as well as his excellent reconstructions and restorations is present in many streets and square in the city of Valencia, have donated to the UV nothing less than the artist’s personal file.
It is an extensive documentary legacy that unites images and writings from his exhibitions, projects and restorations, as well as originals and copies of all his drafts. It is a summary bequeathed by Salvador and Bernardo Castelló that contains considerable documentation about the artistic work of the artist and therefore allows approaching entirely to his trajectory.
On the other hand, the wife and daughters of the designer Paco Bascuñán (Guadalupe Martínez, Ona y Beatriz Bascuñán) have donated three works from L’equip Escapulari-O: “Segon aniversari de la mort de Puig Antich”, “Dossier 76. Successos de Vitòria” and “Exercicis amb X1”, all of them originals of 1976, right at the moment of Spanish transition to democracy.
The history of Valencian design could not be understood without the names of Paco Bascuñán and Quique Company, two artists the UV honoured recently through an exhibition that was open to visit until June at La Nau Cultural Centre.
In addition, the photojournalist J. García Poveda “El Flaco” has donated five of his own photographs taken in 1994 about the exodus of the Cuban people with boats at Cojimar beach and a photography of the visit of King Juan Carlos I in 1999 to Cohiba cigar factory in La Habana. These pictures were displayed at the exhibition “La Habana de El Flaco” that took place at MuVIM in 2013.
Lastly, Vicent Álvared has bequeathed an engraving by Dominique Vivant (Chalon-sud-Saône, 1747 – París, 1825), a reproduction work made in France during the last quarter of the 18th century that shows the predominant taste for the Dutch painting of the previous century, specially for the landscape genre, the process of topic dissemination, styles and artistic heritage starring the graphic art. Álvarez has also donated three bibliographic works: “La ciudad moderna”, by Adolfo Posada (1972), “Ley municipal comentada” by Fernando Albi, Vicente Álvarez and Francisco Naveso (1935) and “Plaidoyer pour les intellectuels” by Jean Paul Sarte (1972).
Through these agreements, the Universitat de València commits to custody and disseminate these assets, which become a part of its extensive historic heritage.
