Carmen Gimenez
Throughout Carmen Gimenez's extensive career, she has earned a reputation as a discerning curator, deeply dedicated to modern and contemporary art and Spain's cultural transformation. She is at the origin of the Reina Sofia Museum, the Guggenheim Bilbao, and the Picasso Museum in Malaga. As an expert in modernist and contemporary sculpture, Carmen Gimenez has curated groundbreaking exhibitions for the Guggenheim, New York, amongst many other renowned institutions.
Richard Serra’s artistic relationship with Spain began in 1966, at the Prado Museum, when in front of the painting Las Meninas (1656) by Diego Velázquez he realized that nothing more could be said in painting. After that decisive revelation, he returned to Florence, where he was studying on a Fulbright grant, threw all his paintings into the Arno River, and decided to be a sculptor.
