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In collaboration with other museums and institutions,
the exhibitions toured to other cities and countries,
making an important contribution to society
by spreading knowledge of the history of art.
The Foundation's headquarters building has
three exhibition rooms, which are fully equipped
with state-of-the-art museum technology. They
can either be used individually or combined
for large-scale exhibitions, as they are interconnected
by stairs to form a single unit.
See Seville. Five perspectives in a hundred
engravings
The Focus-Abengoa Foundation Collection
On 21 June Their Majesties the King and Queen
of Spain opened the exhibition See Seville.
Five perspectives in a hundred engravings at
the Hospital de los Venerables, which ran until
31 August. In the building's main patio, King
Juan Carlos and Queen Sofía unveiled
a plaque to commemorate the 20th anniversary
of the Focus-Abengoa Foundation, a testimony
in the unique setting that is the stage for
its activities to twenty years of service to
society.
The Presidents of the Foundation accompanied
Their Majesties on a tour of the exhibition,
during which Javier Benjumea Puigcerver, the
departed founder and promoter of Focus-Abengoa,
was present in spirit. The detailed explanations
given by Alberto Oliver Carlos and Alfonso Pleguezuelo
Hernández, the Seville University lecturers
responsible for the scientific project, and
the highly original museography, designed by
the artist Gustavo Torner, were greatly appreciated.
The aim of the exhibition, sponsored exclusively
by Abengoa, was to convey the image of the city
as portrayed in the remarkable artistic heritage
that the Foundation has built up over the years.
It consisted of some one hundred engravings
and lithographs which, along with commentaries
and explanations, provided the backbone for
a discourse and analysis of the city.
The exhibition was divided into five separate
sections, each showing a particular perspective,
arranged to proceed from the general to the
specific or partial: the geographer's perspective,
the stroller's perspective, the festive perspective,
the archaeologist's perspective and the romantic
perspective. This arrangement sought to enhance
the open character conferred on engravings by
the personal view projected upon them by each
individual, according to one's personal vision
of the world, concerns, moment in history, vital
experiences and hopes for the future.
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