Museos y Exposiciones

Torreón Fortea

Even though during its year of existence, between 1991 and 1992, the program of this gallery, situated in the basement of a building from 15th-16th Century, was varied (with shows devoted to Jakober, José Vicente Royo, Mapplethorpe, the 1st Biennial of Architecture and Urban Planning, Remedios Varo, Romantic Ballet (1830-1870), soon this gallery specialized in modern artists from Zaragoza and Aragon. During the last fifteen years, around ninety exhibitions has been organized with the intention to be a permanent referential place for the most recent proposals, above all paintings and sculptures, but also paying attention to other artistic fields. This is showed in the rest of municipal galleries, all of them opened to the promotion and spreading of the artists of our region. A fifty percent of the municipal program is devoted to it, a work that we consider to be essential and that no other institution and entity, neither public, nor private, carries out in a systematic way.

The main objective of the program of this gallery has been and continues to be to show the most recent creations of artists from Zaragoza and Aragon, including all tendencies and generations, so that the public can see the most recent works of artists who are already unquestionable figures, at less in the city and in the region. Artists with a very solid career, among them Eduardo Salavera, José Luis Cano, Mariano Rubio, Ángel Aransay, Pilar Moré, Emilio de Arce, Julia Dorado, Pedro Giralt, Fernando Navarro, Maribel Lorén, Jose Lamiel, Gregorio Villarig, Ángel Maturén, Javier Sauras, Natalio Bayo. Also, artists who are consolidated or in the process to be thanks to their works of the last decades, such as Jose Vicente Royo,Vicente Pascual, Joaquín Escuder, Santiago Arranz, José González Mas, Luis Hinojosa, Jacinto Ramos, Ignacio Fortún, José Prieto, Vega Ruiz, Jesus Bondía, Miguel Ángel Domínguez, Mariano Viejo, Santiago Gimeno, Miguel Ángel Encuentra, Cármen Ramírez, José María Valtueña, Antonio Santos, Arturo Gómez, Carlos Castillo Seas, Luis Salas, Fernando Cortés, Sergio Abraín, Ángel Pascual Rodrigo, Pilar Viviente, Strong Carmelo Rebullida, José Miguel Fuentes, Florencio de Pedro, Vicente Villarrocha, Antonio Fombuena, Fernando Lázaro, Juan Carlos Laporta, Quinita Fogué, Joaquin Ferrer, Ignacio Mayayo, Pilar Nicolás, and Angeles Casas. Finally, artists which represent, in a certain sense, new values at the beginning of the 21st Century such as Roberto Coromina, Jorge de los Ríos, Francisco Medel, Pedro Flores, Edrix Cruzado, Lucia Landaluce, Patricia Albajar, Germán Díez, María José Pérez Vicente, Alberto Gómez Ascaso, Jesús Fraile, Paco García Barcos, Gabriel Saldaña. Even younger creators will joint this list in a near future.