Kosme María de Barañano y Letamendía | |
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Born | 1952 (age 71–72)
Bilbao, Spain |
Kosme de Barañano y Letamendía (born 1952) is a Spanish museologist and professor. [1] He has curated and edited catalogs of more than fifty exhibitions in European and American museums. [2] He is considered an expert in the work of Eduardo Chillida. [2]
Interested in art from a young age, his first mentor was the Basque painter José María de Ucelay. [3]
In the museum field, he held a fellowship at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. [2] In 1990 he was appointed deputy director of the Reina Sofía Museum, and was part of the Board of Trustees from 1998 until 2006. [4] In May 2000 he was appointed director of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, [5] [6] a position he held until 2004. [7] In addition, he has been part of advisory committees such as those of the Museo del Prado and the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. [8] He was a member of the Advisory Commission for the creation of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, [2] and has curated exhibitions at the Venice Biennale. [8]
Among his exhibitions at the Accademia Gallery of Venice, he dedicated one to the abstract- figurative artist Philip Guston in 2017. [9] [10] [11]
He was also the curator of the exhibition Baselitz-Academy, [12] [13] dedicated to Georg Baselitz, being the first exhibition of a living artist held by the institution in 2019. [14]
In 1990, he curated an exhibition of Alberto Giacometti with 380 works, including sculpture, painting and drawing for the Reina Sofía Museum. [15] In 1992 he did a retrospective of Chillida with 300 works at the Palacio de Miramar in San Sebastián. [16]
In the academic field, he was a researcher at the University of Heidelberg, full-professor of art history at the University of the Basque Country, and full-professor of Methodology of art history at the Miguel Hernández University. In addition, he was a visiting professor at the IUAV di Venezia, the Venezia-Verona and the University of Berlin. [17]
Aside from these, he has collaborated with written media such as the newspapers El País, La Gaceta del Norte and El Correo, [2] or magazines like Saioak, Expansión, Mundáiz and Muga. [2] He has been the Art Critic in the newspaper El Mundo. [2]
In 2019 he donated his library to the Universitat Jaume I. [8] In 2021 he became, together with Miquel Navarro, at the Real Academia of San Carlos a numerary academician. [18]
Kosme María de Barañano y Letamendía | |
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Born | 1952 (age 71–72)
Bilbao, Spain |
Kosme de Barañano y Letamendía (born 1952) is a Spanish museologist and professor. [1] He has curated and edited catalogs of more than fifty exhibitions in European and American museums. [2] He is considered an expert in the work of Eduardo Chillida. [2]
Interested in art from a young age, his first mentor was the Basque painter José María de Ucelay. [3]
In the museum field, he held a fellowship at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC. [2] In 1990 he was appointed deputy director of the Reina Sofía Museum, and was part of the Board of Trustees from 1998 until 2006. [4] In May 2000 he was appointed director of the Valencian Institute of Modern Art, [5] [6] a position he held until 2004. [7] In addition, he has been part of advisory committees such as those of the Museo del Prado and the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. [8] He was a member of the Advisory Commission for the creation of the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, [2] and has curated exhibitions at the Venice Biennale. [8]
Among his exhibitions at the Accademia Gallery of Venice, he dedicated one to the abstract- figurative artist Philip Guston in 2017. [9] [10] [11]
He was also the curator of the exhibition Baselitz-Academy, [12] [13] dedicated to Georg Baselitz, being the first exhibition of a living artist held by the institution in 2019. [14]
In 1990, he curated an exhibition of Alberto Giacometti with 380 works, including sculpture, painting and drawing for the Reina Sofía Museum. [15] In 1992 he did a retrospective of Chillida with 300 works at the Palacio de Miramar in San Sebastián. [16]
In the academic field, he was a researcher at the University of Heidelberg, full-professor of art history at the University of the Basque Country, and full-professor of Methodology of art history at the Miguel Hernández University. In addition, he was a visiting professor at the IUAV di Venezia, the Venezia-Verona and the University of Berlin. [17]
Aside from these, he has collaborated with written media such as the newspapers El País, La Gaceta del Norte and El Correo, [2] or magazines like Saioak, Expansión, Mundáiz and Muga. [2] He has been the Art Critic in the newspaper El Mundo. [2]
In 2019 he donated his library to the Universitat Jaume I. [8] In 2021 he became, together with Miquel Navarro, at the Real Academia of San Carlos a numerary academician. [18]