"The Future of the Past. Fernando Zóbel and the History of Art", to be held from November 15 to March 5, 2023, is built around the author's sketchbooks in which, starting from the classical copy, he ends up building his own abstract imaginary. Zóbel, a Spanish painter in the Philippines, worked intensively on the paintings of the Museo Nacional del Prado and founded the Ateneo Art Gallery in the Philippines and the Museo de Arte Abstracto, Cuenca.

Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid.

Fernando Zóbel: the 1970s. A Homage to Rafael Pérez-Madero" is, first of all, a tribute to Rafa Pérez-Madero, the artist's right-hand man since 1967, and the greatest connoisseur of Zóbel's pictorial work.

The project, which is accompanied by a catalog by Juan Manuel Bonet, goes through the 70s of the Spanish-Filipino painter, a decade of total creative freedom with an absolutely personal language that concretizes, like no other moment in his career, the pictorial investigations begun in the 50s stripped of everything that the painter already considered unnecessary: "In the process of painting, I eliminate everything that is superfluous. My paintings are, I think, quite simple: I don't want there to be anything distracting in them".

GALERÍA CAYÓN, Manila
Corinthian Plaza, 121 Paseo de Roxas
Legazpi Village, Makati.

Open to the public from March 9 to 29, 2022.

Our painting auction today has been very very special: thanks to all of you who have joined us.

We have many news and auctions to share with you, but for the moment we leave you with one of the great protagonists of this day: Fernando Zóbel and this "Alcazar of Seville", from 1968. It started at 70,000 euros and has gone up to 160,000!

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Presentation of the first solo exhibition on Fernando Zóbel (1924, Manila - 1984, Rome) held in a gallery in the last twenty years. The exhibition will be dedicated to the works that Fernando Zóbel made between the end of the 50's and the beginning of the 60's, when he found and consolidated his own pictorial language.

CAYÓN GALLERY. c/Blanca de Navarra, 7. Madrid.
Open to the public from December 17 to February 6, 2016.

The Azcona Foundation, in collaboration with the Ayala Foundation Inc., the Juan March Foundation and the artist's heirs, is preparing a catalog raisonné of paintings by Fernando Zóbel (1924-1984), with the intention of taking a census of the nearly 2,000 paintings by the artist.
The project is in charge of Alfonso de la Torre, a specialist in Spanish contemporary art with great experience in the creation of catalogs raisonné, who has the collaboration of Rafael Pérez-Madero, an expert in Zóbel's work and author of the catalog raisonné of his graphic work.

Collectors and owners of Zóbel's paintings may contact: razonadozobel@fundacionazcona.com

Manila, Philippines: September 22^nd, 2015

In 1959, Fernando Zóbel, held his first exhibition in Spain, with works that marked and consolidated his abstract principles: his already famous "Saetas", some paintings from the beginning of the "Black Series" and a selection of drawings belonging to this important period of his career.
On this occasion, the corresponding catalog was published, with an interesting text written by Antonio Magaz Sangro.
In view of the growing and renewed interest in Zóbel's work, both in Spain and in the Philippines, we thought it appropriate to reprint this book, including an English translation to facilitate a better understanding and dissemination of his work.
It is a tribute to the author of the text and to the painter Fernando Zóbel.