Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía

Coordinates: 40°24′30.85715″N 3°41′38.38596″W / 40.4085714306°N 3.6939961000°W / 40.4085714306; -3.6939961000
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
Museo Reina Sofía
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EstablishedSeptember 10, 1992; 31 years ago (1992-09-10)
LocationMadrid, Spain
Coordinates40°24′30.85715″N 3°41′38.38596″W / 40.4085714306°N 3.6939961000°W / 40.4085714306; -3.6939961000
Visitors1,643,108 (2021)[1]
DirectorPending of selection [2]
Websitewww.museoreinasofia.es
Official nameMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
TypeNon-movable
CriteriaMonument
Designated1978
Reference no.RI-51-0004260

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía ("Queen Sofía National Museum Art Centre"; MNCARS)

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
).

The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish art. Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain's two greatest 20th-century masters,

Guernica. Along with its extensive collection, the museum offers a mixture of national and international temporary exhibitions in its many galleries, making it one of the world's largest museums for modern and contemporary art. In 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, it attracted 1,643,108 visitors, up 32 percent from 2020, but well below 2019 attendance. In 2021 it ranked eighth on the list of most-visited art museums in the world.[3]

It also hosts a free-access library specializing in art, with a collection of over 100,000 books, over 3,500 sound recordings, and almost 1,000 videos.

Collection

The museum is mainly dedicated to Spanish art. Highlights of the museum include excellent collections of Spain's two greatest 20th-century masters,

Guernica. The Reina Sofía collection has works by artists such as Joan Miró, Eduardo Chillida, Pablo Gargallo, Julio González, Luis Gordillo, Juan Gris, José Gutiérrez Solana, Lucio Muñoz, Jorge Oteiza, Julio Romero de Torres, Pablo Serrano, and Antoni Tàpies
.

International art represented in the collection include works by

Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Yves Klein, Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipchitz, René Magritte, Henry Moore, Bruce Nauman, Gabriel Orozco, Nam June Paik, Man Ray, Diego Rivera, Mark Rothko, Julian Schnabel, Richard Serra, Cindy Sherman, Clyfford Still, Yves Tanguy, and Wolf Vostell
.

Gallery

  • Pablo Picasso, 1912, Les oiseaux morts (Los pájaros muertos), oil on canvas, 46 x 65 cm
    Pablo Picasso, 1912, Les oiseaux morts (Los pájaros muertos), oil on canvas, 46 x 65 cm
  • Joan Miró, 1918, La casa de la palmera (House with Palm Tree), oil on canvas, 65 x 73 cm
    Joan Miró, 1918, La casa de la palmera (House with Palm Tree), oil on canvas, 65 x 73 cm
  • Juan Gris, 1913, Violin and Guitar, oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm
    Juan Gris, 1913, Violin and Guitar, oil on canvas, 81 x 60 cm
  • Juan Gris, October 1916, Portrait of Josette, oil on canvas, 116 x 73 cm
    Juan Gris, October 1916, Portrait of Josette, oil on canvas, 116 x 73 cm
  • María Blanchard, 1917, Woman with guitar, oil on canvas, 100 x 72 cm
    María Blanchard, 1917, Woman with guitar, oil on canvas, 100 x 72 cm
  • Wassily Kandinsky, 1923, Delicate Tension, watercolor and ink on paper
    Wassily Kandinsky, 1923, Delicate Tension, watercolor and ink on paper
  • Robert Delaunay, 1923, Portrait of Tristan Tzara, oil on cardboard, 104.5 x 75 cm
    Robert Delaunay, 1923, Portrait of Tristan Tzara, oil on cardboard, 104.5 x 75 cm

History of the building

Courtyard in old hospital building
Jean Nouvel building interior

Hospital

The building is on the site of the first General Hospital of Madrid.

Francisco Sabatini
who did the majority of the work. In 1805, after numerous work stoppages, the building was to assume its function that it had been built for, which was being a hospital, although only one-third of the proposed project by Sabatini was completed. Since then it has undergone various modifications and additions until, in 1969, it was closed down as a hospital.

Art museum

Extensive modern renovations and additions to the old building were made starting in 1980. The central building of the museum was once an 18th-century hospital. The building functioned as the Centro del Arte (Art Centre) from 1986 until established as the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 1988. In 1988, portions of the new museum were opened to the public, mostly in temporary configurations; that same year it was decreed by the Ministry of Culture as a national museum. Its architectural identity was radically changed in 1989 by Ian Ritchie with the addition of three glass circulation towers.

Expansion

An 8000 m2 (86,000 ft2) expansion costing €92 million designed by French architect

ducks scéno was consultant for scenographic equipment of auditoriums and Arau Acustica for acoustic studies.[5]

Other facilities

Reina Sofía has other two places where several exhibitions usually take place. There are the

Retiro Park
.

  • Front entrance
    Front entrance
  • Close up of the front of the Reina Sofía in Madrid Spain.
    Close up of the front of the Reina Sofía in Madrid Spain.
  • Reina Sofía Museum
    Reina Sofía Museum
  • Interior gallery photo inside the Reina Sofía Museum
    Interior gallery photo inside the Reina Sofía Museum
  • Inside the Reina Sofía Museum
    Inside the Reina Sofía Museum
  • Crystal Palace in the Retiro Park, a Reina Sofía exhibition centre
    Crystal Palace in the Retiro Park, a Reina Sofía exhibition centre

Notable works

Popular culture references

The museum features, as a major protagonist, in Jim Jarmusch's The Limits of Control (2009).

In the 2003 Spanish film

Noviembre
, the school entrance scenes and some performance scenes were shot in the square in front of the museum.

See also

References

Informational notes
  1. ^ Also known in Spanish as the Museo Reina Sofía, El Reina Sofía, or simply el Reina
Citations
  1. ^ The Art Newspaper annual survey of art museum attendance, published March 28, 2022
  2. ^ "Manuel Borja-Villel to Depart as Director of Reina Sofía".
  3. Art Newspaper
    annual visitor survey, published March 28, 2022
  4. ^ "The Ateliers Jean Nouvel". Ateliers Jean Nouvel. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  5. ^ "Dans les cartons: Auditoriums Museo Reina Sofia". 9 March 2016. Archived from the original on 24 September 2018. Retrieved 14 December 2017.
  6. ^ "Wolf Vostell | 6 TV Dé-Coll/age (1963) | Artsy". www.artsy.net. Retrieved 2020-06-21.
  7. ^ "Wolf Vostell – 6 TV Dé-Coll/age". www.museoreinasofia.es. Retrieved 2020-06-21.

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