MARIA MORENO

The exhibition ‘Unveiling Reality’ opened in Estepona on 18 March 2025, bringing together an outstanding selection of works by renowned artists in the field of Spanish realism. 

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Among the pieces on display are ‘Jardín de Poniente’ and ‘Membrilleros en río Záncara’ by María Moreno, which capture the essence of her luminous and evocative style, as well as her mastery in capturing the essence of the everyday. 

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The exhibition also includes works by other renowned artists such as Antonio López, Isabel Quintanilla, Amalia Avia, Francisco López, Julio López, Carmen Laffón, Cristóbal Toral and José Hernández. Each of them brings their unique vision of realism, offering the public an enriching and diverse experience in the world of contemporary art.

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The exhibition will be open to the public until 20 July 2025 in the Mirador del Carmen gallery in Estepona. For more information, visit the website of the gallery by clicking here. 

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To see her works in the exhibition, click here. 

In honour of 50 years of bilateral relations between China and Spain, the Royal Palace of Madrid has opened an exhibition that will run until May 26, 2024. It is an exhibition of figurative works by 99 contemporary Chinese and Spanish artists called "Beyond Realism. Figurative art from China and Spain."

 

​The exhibition offers an overview of figurative art, not simply realism, practised in both countries over the last fifty years.

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The exhibition opens with a selection of paintings and drawings by Antonio López, Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco López, María Moreno, Julio López, Amalia Avia, Isabel Baquedano and Carmen Laffón.​

 

More information on the National Heritage website by clicking here.

The Studio of Antonio López and María Moreno presents a virtual tour of his latest exhibition in the Netherlands. This virtual tour has been developed with The Mad Pixel, a Madrid-based company that has worked with museums in Spain and Europe.

 

Thanks to this collaboration, visitors can tour the exhibition in super-high resolution, exploring the space and appreciating every detail with exceptional clarity. The technology allows for powerful zooms, viewing the works at a magnification and detail rarely accessible.

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The experience also includes a welcome tour with an explanatory audio track in Spanish and English, with accessible subtitles, accompanied by a visual summary of the exhibition, offering a complete and enriching immersion from anywhere in the world. Don't miss the opportunity to explore this unique exhibition in its digital format by clicking here!

On March 15, the MUREC, a museum dedicated to contemporary Spanish realist art, was inaugurated. His works, among which there are paintings, sculptures, drawings and engravings, cover the panorama of this artistic style in Spain from the beginning of the 20th century to the present. 

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One of the fundamental nuclei is the work of the Realists of Madrid, among which there are several paintings and drawings by María Moreno, presented together with the works of her colleagues and friends: Antonio López, Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco López, Amalia Avia, Julio López and Esperanza Parada. 

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This project is located in the Hospital de Santa María Magdalena in Almería capital, a 16th-century building restored for the occasion. 

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For more information about opening hours and visits to the institution, visit the museum's website here.

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You can see images of some rooms of the museum on Antonio López's website here.

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The Círculo Burgos Foundation and the Ibercaja bank have organised an exhibition to pay tribute to Spanish realism, which began to develop in the 1950s and 1960s.

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The Pedro Torrecilla exhibition hall in Burgos houses 47 works by ten artists: Amalia Avia, Julio López, Isabel Quintanilla, Francisco López, Jorge Hernández, Esperanza Parada, Cristóbal Toral, Carmen Laffón, Antonio López and María Moreno.

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It can be visited free of charge between 13 September and 10 November 2024. For more information, click here.

On November 29, 2023, the exhibition "Antonio López and the Masters of Spanish Realism" was inaugurated at the Middle Longhua metro station in Shanghai. It presents 46 reproductions of works by Antonio López, Miguel Ángel Argüello, Amalia Avia, Francisco López, José María Mezquita, Isabel Quintanilla, Julio Vaquero and María Moreno, of whom eight works are included. 

The Chinese public will have the chance to learn about the evolution of contemporary figurative art in Spain from some of its best representatives.                                                                                             This exhibition is co-organized by the Cervantes Institute, the Spanish Embassy in China and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, with the collaboration of Turespaña, the advice of the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum of Madrid and the Antonio López and María Moreno Studio.

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For more information, click here.