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Gabarron.org is our territory as well as your territory. It is a space for art and culture, a meeting-point, a place for friendship… Those of us who are involved in this reality, that progresses with every passing day, would like to transmit to you what we are and what we do. We would also like extend an invitation to become involved to all of those who feel committed to the society we live in -a society that is open and plural and which interacts with its citizens- to whom it wants to give prominence.

Throughout this handbook we will display the artistic and dynamic creation of my father, the artist who gives us our name and who is the cornerstone from which everything started. It is a piece of work that intends to be a heritage of thought, experience and knowledge and which goes beyond his paintings, drawings, collage… since his aim is to transmit a philosophy of life in order to overcome the contradictions of the human being and social inequality, encouraging the crossbreeding of peoples and cultures.

Thus, Valladolid, his home city, is where the Foundation that bears his name first appeared, as the first exponent of paying back to society part of what he has received from it; in New York, where his career was opened up to the world, the Gabarron Foundation was created, aiming to link cultures; and in his native village of Mula (Murcia, Spain), the Casa Pintada Foundation was created, a museum that is a reference of his paintings and sculptures. These institutions, along with the Las Salinas Contemporary Art open-air museum and the Caja Duero Museum-Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation Collection, make up the current unfinished structure of which Madrid will be the next stop.

The handbook you have in your hands intends to bring you closer to the Gabarron.org territory, not only to let you know about our work, but mainly to make you a participant and one of the main characters of the structure and content displayed here.

Cris Gabarrón

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Crist贸bal Gabarr贸n Mula (Murcia, Spain), 1945. Painter and Sculptor

With his very own unique style based on abstraction and informalism, Gabarrón has lived in Valladolid (Spain) from the age of 7, although since 1986 he has lived and worked between Spain and the United States.

As an artist interested in a multifaceted view of culture, he has always kept in close and permanent touch with a range of international institutions: For the Olympic Movement he has carried out important creative work, among others, for the Barcelona (1992) and the Atlanta (1996) Games. Since 1986, he has also been collaborating with the United Nations and his work “Our Hope for Peace” was adopted as the image of International Peace Year. Later on, in the year 2000, his “Dawn in a New Millennium” was to become the symbol of the Millennium Summit held in New York in September of that year.

His pictorial works cover his most intimate feelings of nature, life, death and sex. His sculptural works refer to the human condition, both in its morphology as well as in the expression of its feelings. His three-dimensional works are closely bonded to his pictorial pieces, as are his interventions in architectural and public spaces.

Both his paintings and sculptures are to be found in public and private collections, as well as in museums the world over. They have also “invaded” urban areas such as squares, parks, churches or even the hull of competition sailing boats.

In recent years, the renowned New York critic Donald Kuspit undertook a revision of his work through a retrospective exhibition dedicated to him in the Modern Art Institute of Valencia -IVAM-, the Chelsea Art Museum in New York and the National Modern Art Museum of Gdansk, in Poland.

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Family of Foundations and Spaces

Cristóbal Gabarrón, a man of his time and a convinced humanist, has brought about and given an impulse to the successive creation of several Foundations since the year 1992, through which he, his family and a group of collaborators and patrons, have made the artist’s most personal aspirations come true, paying back to society part of what it has given him, through the promotion of culture in all its facets.

Since 1992, The Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation, which bears the artist’s name, has been the head which has favored the successive appearance of others such as The Gabarrón Foundation in New York (2002), The Casa Pintada Foundation in Mula (Murcia, Spain) (2005) and the most recent incorporations to this cultural collaboration such as the Las Salinas Contemporary Art open-air sculpture museum in Medina del Campo, Valladolid (Spain) (2007) and the Caja Duero Museum - Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation Collection that is soon to open its doors in Salamanca (Spain).

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The Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation Valladolid (Spain)

The Gabarrón Foundation New York (U.S.A.)

The Casa Pintada Foundation Mula. Murcia (Spain)

Las Salinas Contemporary Art Medina del Campo. Valladolid (Spain)

Caja Duero Museum – CGF Collection Salamanca (Spain)

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International Committee and Center Managers

International Committee

Bisila Bokoko, New York (U.S.A.) Thérèse Gastaut, París (France) Amos Gitai, Tel-Aviv (Israel) Miriam Gómez Cabrera Infante, London (England) John Keenen, New York (U.S.A.) Donald Kuspit, New York (U.S.A.) Jean Paul Ledeur, París (France) Sami Naïr, París (France) Irene Papas, Atenas (Grecia) Guy Pieters, Saint Martens Latem (Belgium) Margarida Prieto, Lisbon (Portugal) Avi Reich, Tel-Aviv (Israel) Terence Riley, Miami (U.S.A.) Thomas P. Rosandich, Alabama (U.S.A.) Julian Zugazagoitia, Nueva York (U.S.A.)

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Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation President: Cris Gabarrón Director: José Luis González Curiel

The Gabarron Foundation Carriage House Center for the Arts President: Theodore W. Kheel Director: Juan M. Gabarrón

Casa Pintada Foundation Cristóbal Gabarrón Museum Honorary President : Diego Cervantes President: Antonio Hernández Cava Director: Antonio Parra

Las Salinas Contemporary Art President: Gerardo Torres Director: Benito Janeiro

The Caja Duero Museum The Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation Collection President: Julio Fermoso Curator of the Pre-Columbian Art Collection: Dr. Ángel Sanz Tapia

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The Crist贸bal Gabarr贸n Foundation

Valladolid (Spain)

Foundation The Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation -FCG- is a non-profit cultural institution that is recognized

by Spanish Ministerial Order of 22nd September 1992 (Official Government Bulletin B.O.E. 2110-92) and is registered in the Registry of Cultural Foundations at the Protectorate of Foundations of the Ministry of Culture, number 202, according to Royal Decree 532/2004 of 17th April.

Museum of Contemporary Cultural Plurality In November 2002, HRH Queen Sofía inaugurated the Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation Museum (MFCG), a newly-built museum designed by architects Llanos-Urdiaín-Llacer for Valladolid.

In its almost 6,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space, divided into five big and open halls, the Museum now holds the collections that the artist Cristóbal Gabarrón himself has been treasuring throughout his life, those that have helped or influenced him in his creative career, such as the collection of Egyptian, Roman, Etruscan and Greek art, the splendid and extensive sample of Tribal African Art, one of the first editions of Goya’s Whims, the collection of Religious Art from the XIII to XVIII centuries, XIX century paintings with their special thirst for portraits, Picasso’s ceramics and drawings as well as the collection of Contemporary International Art. Similarly, its temporary exhibition halls house the work of national and international artists, his peers, who have displayed their work for the first time in Castilla Leon and with whom he has maintained a creative dialogue during his career.

The PIRS, the Queen Sofía Children’s Art Gallery, is also an integral part of the permanent exhibition project at the Foundation. Here we find a sample of a wide selection of drawings made by participants in annual contests, an activity complemented by the holding of educational workshops aimed at the youngest members of society.

The MFCG is a museum of contemporary culture since it is the recipient of works of art and displays characterized by a link to our own time. Its main virtue is, therefore, that of plurality, offering the visitor a comparative observation of works that have emerged in contexts that are distant from each other in time and space, while at the same time each of them can be used to better interpret current art and culture.

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Outdoor Sculpture Garden

Lobby

Exhibition in gallery 4 of the museum

Dennis Oppenheim Exhibition in gallery 3 of the museum

Jean Miotte Exhibition in gallery 2 of the museum

Carol Brown Goldberg Exhibition in galleries 2 and 3 of the museum

gallery 2

gallery 4 gallery 1

gallery

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gallery 3

Library and reading room

Restoration workshop

The Gabarron Foundation Carriage House Center for the Arts

New York (USA)

The Gabarrón Foundation is a private North American institution, created by the family of the artist Cristóbal Gabarrón and his legal representatives in the United States. It operates under the laws of the State of New York (NY Department of State 05/31/01) and was registered as a non-profit section 501(c) (3) organization in 2002.

The main headquarters of this North American organization is located in the heart of Manhattan, in a building built in 1902 by the renowned architect Ralph S. Townsend for then owner William R.H. Martin, who, in 1907, sold it to J.P. Morgan partner, George S. Bowdoin. With its some 2,600 sq. ft., in 1997 it was declared of historical and artistic interest by the New York Heritage Preservation Commission, being subsequently refurbished and adapted on the inside to become a cultural and exhibition center.

It was in this way that The Carriage House Center for the Arts was born, a cultural center that has been consolidated as a reference point for Spanish and South American art in the Big Apple, holding exhibitions and undertaking projects with the aim of linking European and American cultures; especially promoting, exhibiting, extending and analyzing the cultural roots of Spanish influence on American society and American influence on Spanish society, thus reminding us of the best aspects of each culture and building a future on the solidities of both peoples.

The project could be summarized as an effort to make each other’s diverse cultural manifestations known in both societies as well as recovering a collective identity to promote the advancement of present and future knowledge throughout the XXI century. Its grants program for youth has facilitated the promotion of original creations by novel creators.

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Roberto Verino Exhibition

Robert Combas Exhibition

Gustavo Aceves and Javier Marin Exhibition

Paco Caparr贸s Exhibition in collaboration with the IVAM

Lobby. Robert Combas Exhibition

Offices on the third floor

Casa Pintada Foundation Crist贸bal Gabarr贸n Museum

Mula, Murcia (Spain)

The FCP (Casa Pintada Foundation) is a non-profit Foundation set up in June 2004 by the Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation and the Mula Town Council. It is registered in the Registry of Foundations of the Autonomous Region of Murcia, number CUL-18.

The Casa Pintada Foundation-Cristóbal Gabarrón Museum in Mula, inaugurated in June 2005 by Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Asturias, is a forum for “the interpretation of contemporary culture,” as indicated in its statutes, and intends to be an window open to contemporary art and culture.

The Foundation is the headquarters of the museum dedicated to the international artist Cristóbal Gabarrón (through the express wish of the Castilian-Murcian creator, since Mula is his native town) and in it we can find an important sample of his work that especially highlights his vision of the universe, of life and of death. Another exhibition of an itinerant nature, also with Gabarrón’s work, called “The Pilgrim Museum”, displays the center’s collection that was previously on display.

Along with the work of the Foundation’s artist, Casa Pintada carries out research on the three great cultures: the Jewish, Christian and Islamic cultures that forged the Region of Murcia during the Middle Ages. It is also a clear commitment to our own days that intends to promote cultural and sustainable tourism in the region.

Finally, the Foundation also has an active program dedicated to contemporary art and young creators, offering grants that range from training periods in New York to production grants for the Young Space in Casa Pintada: the oil cellar from the XVIII century which has been perfectly preserved. With the help of the grant-recipients, Casa Pintada gives an impulse to another itinerant exhibition, “Salt and Oil: 17 emerging artists of the Spanish Mediterranean”.

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Gallery with ceramics by Crist贸bal Gabarr贸n

Gallery with sculptures by Crist贸bal Gabarr贸n

Young Artists exhibition in the cellar

Casa Pintada Expansion Project John Keenen and Terence Riley The objective of the extension project of the Crist贸bal Gabarr贸n Museum is to offer more gallery space, a new access and better circulation for the expanded museum. The New York architecture firm, K/R, with the coordination in Spain of the Architecture Studio of Antonio Fernandez Esteve, has managed to achieve this in a design that proposes the refurbishment of the recently acquired XVIII century palace, skillfully connecting to Casa Pintada through the creation of a central inner courtyard, which will be used as the main public entrance and a museum meeting-point. The courtyard has been conceived as an inner plaza that will act as the symbolic soul of the extension of the museum.

A new continuous circulation loop will be created through each of the existing buildings, crossing through the new suspended gallery space, from one palace to the other. The suspended gallery is an open-air terrace that offers views of Mula. The access to the existing tower is also new and it enables its use as the main museum meeting hall. The new construction is conceived as being independent of the existing buildings and the museum will have a modern climate control system. The project will add over 1,000 sq. ft. of exhibition space to the museum. The building of the project is scheduled to begin at the beginning of 2008, opening in 2009.

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New central courtyard

Las Salinas Contemporary Art

Medina del Campo (Spain)

Works by Franรงois Xavier Lalanne, Robert Indiana and Jean-Michel Folon

Las Salinas Contemporary Art (SAC) is a private museum established by the Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation that highlights the relationship between sculpture and nature stemming from the spiritual reflection at the Millennium Chapel, created in 2001 by the artist Cristóbal Gabarrón.

The sculpture park opened its Doors in 2007 in collaboration with the Valencia Institute of Modern Art –IVAM-. Situated within the 260,000 sq. ft. complex of Las Salinas Palace, the SAC is an artistic space defined by the sky and the earth.

SAC promotes and encourages the appreciation of artistic expression aimed at the cultural and educational enrichment of society, exalting dialogue between artists and professionals of the world of art.

The expanse of garden space at the SAC open–air museum hosts a wide and careful selection of contemporary sculptural works, among which we can highlight those pieces by outstanding names such as Anthony Caro, Markus Lüpertz, Dennis Oppenheim and Pablo Palazuelo. The relationship between sculpture and nature finds a special place for reflection alongside the walls of the spiritual Millennium Chapel, created in 2001 by Cristóbal Gabarrón himself.

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Work by Jacques VilleglĂŠ

Work by Manolo Ruibal

Work by Pol Bury

Work by Miquel Navarro next to the Millennium Chapel

Interior of the Millennium Chapel

Work by Miquel Navarro

Work by Tony Smith

Work by Markus L眉pertz

Work by Crist贸bal Gabarr贸n

The Caja Duero Museum The Crist贸bal Gabarr贸n Foundation Collection

Salamanca (Spain)

In 2009, the Caja Duero Museum - Crist贸bal Gabarr贸n Foundation Collection, located in Salamanca (Spain), will become a center for the coexistence and study of preColumbine and South American cultures through the display of part of an extensive collection of Pre-Columbine Art, in permanent dialogue with temporary exhibitions that will be held in order to complement its wide-ranging South American cultural offer.

The FCG has managed to gather over a thousand samples which, due to their wealth and diversity, allow us to classify the collection as exceptional. Through successive expansions, new pieces were added among which we should highlight the acquisition of a great selection of Mexican pieces, mainly from the German expert and collector Christian Kaufmann. The Kaufmann Collection was moved in its entirety from its seat in Hamburg to Valladolid when it was acquired from his heirs by the Gabarr贸n family. These latest additions, which include Mexican pieces, are a complement to the initial collection, which already contained pieces from Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru.

The collection has three main characteristics: quality, extent and variety. Its over a thousand pieces, corresponding to a variety of cultures, make reference to more than 3000 years of South American history and, in practice, offer us the possibility to stroll through the pre-Columbine world. Works of great quality as well as simple and ordinary pieces are included in the collection, thereby providing a general panoramic vision of objects and cultures.

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Project by Ant贸n Garc铆a Abril

The CGF International Awards

Gala 2002

Gala 2008

The Crist贸bal Gabarr贸n Foundation International Awards were set up in the year 2002 to celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the creation of this cultural institution.

These International Awards seek to pay tribute to the work of both individuals and institutions whose exemplary service has been a cause of distinction in those values that can be regarded as the cornerstone of the Foundation itself, along with their continuous contribution towards the building of a fairer society.

The annual awards Gala that takes place in the Calder贸n Theater in Valladolid with over 1000 participants offers a scenography prepared personally by the artist whose name the Foundation bears, a scenography which represents the most important happenings that have marked the social and cultural aspects of the previous year.

Each year, fifty-four prominent personalities participate in the different jury meetings which are held to choose the award-winners in each of the nine categories: Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Science and Research, Sports, Economics, Literature, Thought and Humanities, Restoration and Conservation and the award for a Lifetime Achievement.

Since 2006, the Boards of the Spanish and North American Foundations have added a tenth winner to the nine Awards categories: the Medal of Honor, which is awarded unanimously by the patrons alternately between Spain and the United States.

The existence and continuous development of these Awards -which are celebrated every year- is consolidated and extended thanks to the participation of loyal collaborators and sponsors such as ABC Newspapers, AC Hotels, Caja Duero Savings Bank, IBERIA, RENFE Trains, TVE Spanish National Television, the Valladolid City Council and the Castilla Le贸n Regional Government.

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Gala 2007

Members of the Patronage of the International Awards José Manuel Vargas, C.E.O. of VOCENTO and ABC Antonio Catalán, President of AC Hotels Javier León de la Riva Mayor of Valladolid Julio Fermoso President of Caja Duero Fernando Conte, President of Iberia Juan Vicente Herrera President of the Junta de Castilla y León José Salgueiro President of Renfe Luis Fernández President of TVE

Art

Scenic Art

Science and Research

Sports

James Rosenquist

Mstlav Rostropovich

Juan José López Ibor

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Peter Eiseman

Cristóbal Halfter

Henry de Lumley

Zinedine Zidane

Anthony Caro

Amos Gitai

Margarita Salas

Miguel Induráin

Richard Serra

Seminci

Valentín Fuster

Juan Oiarzábal

Enrique Fuentes Quintana

Yoko Ono

Rafael Azcona

Santiago Grisolía

Futbol Club Barcelona

Luis Ángel Rojo

Markus Lüpertz

Irene Papas

Francisco José Ayala

Arancha Sánchez Vicario

Edmund Valpy Fitzgerald

Martín Chirino

Concha Velasco

Lynn Margulis

María L. Mutola

Ignacio S. Galán

Economy

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Literature

Thought and Humanities

Restoration and Conservation

Lifetime Achievement

Medal of Honor

Mario Vargas Llosa

Julián Marías

Daniele Rossi

Guillermo Luca de Tena

Cabrera Infante

Jean Dausset

Gianluigi Colaluci

Belisario Betancur

Francisco José Ayala

Somaly Mam

Miguel Ángel Corzo

Padre Garrada

Caballero Bonald

Raul Rivero

Pinin Brambilla

Eduardo García de Enterría

Josefina Aldecoa

Hugh Thomas

Jean Paul Ledeur

Sami Naïr

Consuelo Císcar

David Grossman

Slavoj Zizek

Matías Díaz Padrón

Julio María Sanguinetti

Maya Angelou

Cees Nooteboom

Alain Touraine

Lanfranco Secco Suardo

Fundación Vicente Ferrer

Fernando Botero

2002

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

Museo Fundación Cristóbal Gabarrón C/ Rastrojo c/v Barbecho 47014 Valladolid. España Tel. + 34.983.362.490 info@fc-gabarron.es www.fc-gabarron.es

The Gabarron Foundation Carriage House Center for the Arts 149 East 38th Street. New York NY 10016. USA Tel. + 1.212.573-6968 info@gabarronfoundation.org www.gabarronfoundation.org

FCP

Fundación Casa Pintada Museo C r i s t ó b a l G a b a r r ó n Fundación Casa Pintada

Las Salinas Arte Contemporáneo

Museo Cristóbal Gabarrón de Interpretación

Palacio de las Salinas · Km. 4. Ctra. Las Salinas s/n

de la Cultura Contemporánea C/San Francisco 14. 30170 Mula. Murcia. España Tel. + 34.968.662.762 info@fundacioncasapintada.com www.fundacioncasapintada.com

47400 Medina de Campo, Valladolid. España Tel. + 34.983.804.450 info@SalinasArteContemporaneo.es www.SalinasArteContemporaneo.es

Produced by the Department of Publications of the Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation in Valladolid.

Cover image: White Sea, 2004. Oil and pigment on canvas. 400 x 800 cm. Cristóbal Gabarrón.

Published by AltoDuero Designed by Laura Crespo and Pepe Reina.

Printed in Murcia by Pictografía, S.A. Photographs: Juan Garcia Rosell, Carlos Garcia Pozo, Rose Rongac, JC Pestana, John Smith, Luis González Hernández, Carlos Agustin. © 2008 Cristóbal Gabarrón Foundation, Valladolid.

D.L.: MU-2.838-2008

The printing of this handbook was completed in Murcia (Spain) on October 9th, 2008, the same day John Lennon was born in Liverpool (UK) in 1940.