Colección Caixa Galicia

The exchange of exhibitions between the IVAM and other institutions provides different publics with an opportunity to see artistic phenomena from faraway places. In this way, links are created between societies that are far apart from a geographic point of view but which can be brought close to each other by their interest in art. Exchange always generates new viewpoints and thus increases knowledge, for comparative analyses and studies of cultural exchange give rise to an atmosphere of undeniable intellectual solidarity and maturity, so an interconnection between the arts is necessary in the context of the 21st century. According to these premises and with the practice based on exporting culture and setting up a correlation and a dialogue that will enrich visitors, other collections are brought into the IVAM and contribute to greater cultural interrelation. CAIXA GALICIA COLLECTION. From its outset, the Fundación Caixa Galicia has focused its efforts on producing a cultural offer adapted to the preferences of different sorts of public, and at the same time encouraging the generation of synergies with the most prestigious institutions and entities to carry out stable agendas that give preference to the organisation of diverse artistic activities. The foundation’s efforts to promote the visual arts, apart from the exhibitions held in its different branches, has its maximum exponent in the over seven hundred works that make up its art collection, one of the most important private art collections in Spain, which includes painting, sculpture, photography, drawings, engravings and installations, with pieces by the most representative and highly considered Galician authors and a selection of the most promising young authors, with the inclusion of other contemporary artists in recent times. Among these artists, the following deserve special mention: Francisco Bores, Jorge Barbí, José Manuel Broto, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Carmen Calvo, Miguel Ángel Campano, Rafael Canogar, Luis Caruncho, Eduardo Chillida, Martín Chirino, José Pedro Croft, Salvador Dalí, Eugenio Granell, Eduardo Gordillo, Antón Llamazares, Menchu Lamas, José Mª de Labra, Laxeiro, Francisco Leiro, Cristino Mallo, Maruja Mallo, Manuel Millares, Lucio Muñoz, Miquel Navarro, Antón Patiño, Antonio Saura, Sean Scully, Luis Seoane, Susana Solano, Eduardo Úrculo, Manuel Vilariño and Darío Villalba.