Museos y Exposiciones

Montemuzo Palace

The gallery, situated on the ground floor of a 16th Century palace, was opened with a retrospective of ancient photography called Zaragoza. Memory in Black and White. The building hosts the Municipal Archive, Library, and Newspapers and Periodicals Library, so it was decided that it would be a placed specialized in works made on paper, including all the aspects of drawings and graphics, such as photography and eventually bibliographic and documentary shows. This line of work has been kept up to now in a general way, except photographic exhibitions, which are showed from 1997, in the new gallery in Casa de los Morlanes.

The specialization in works on paper has been covered in different ways, attending to every type of technical manifestation and tendency, as it is showed by the fact that, even though it has been devoted a great attention to contemporary and today´s proposals, one of the firsts exhibitions was the exceptional draws show by Francisco Bayeu, with works from the Museo del Prado, and after that, the also singular show made by Natalio Bayo, Illustrations and graphic design (1965-1995), followed by more than 70 exhibitions, including different proposals as interesting as the following ones: Modernism in Graphic Arts,  the graphic and documentary section of the exhibition After Goya. A Subjective Look; the anthology Borja de Pedro: Engraver 1969-1996; collages by Antonio Fortún; engraves on metal by Barboza; Thirty Years of Engravings:1968-1998 by Hermógenes Pardos; Nature and Daydream by Pascual Blanco; Chant (Life Faith) by J. J. Torralba; a retrospective of Joan Miró; lithographer, Ana Aragüés; paintings on paper by Vicente Pascual; infographies by Rubén Enciso and pastels by Eduardo Salaver; the interesting collective of Injuve Festival of Comic and Illustration organized every year, and excellent sample of the current state of these disciplines among the youngest and most innovative authors; the anthology of Grasa Jordán; Booknote; Engravings 1972-2002; graphic works from the exhibition Games in 20th Century Art, presented simultaneously at la Lonja; engravings made by Alejandro Boloix, works on paper by Ramón Cascado, Pepe Cerdá, Joaquín Escuder, Balagueró, Rebullida; and as an exception, paintings by María Buil, Juan Carlos Callejas, and Jesús Sus.