For the third consecutive year, Corporación Masaveu and the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson are teaming up to organise the exhibition they have been presenting every year since 1998 in the Corporación Masaveu Pavilion at the Asturias International Trade Fair (Luis Adaro Trade Fair Park) to showcase some of the main milestones in the Asturian group’s diverse economic and business activity alongside selected works from the Masaveu collections.
Continuing and complementing the Masaveu in the United States exhibition held in 2024, this new exhibition, Masaveu in the United States (II), delves deeper into the Group’s drive to internationalise its lines of business in that country. Whereas last year the project focused on the state of Texas, this year it provides an overview of all the Corporación Masaveu investments in the United States. Realised through the real estate, industrial and energy sectors, these investments are distributed not only in Texas but also in the states of California and Florida and the city of Washington DC.
Also on display in the Corporación Masaveu Pavilion is a small but significant selection of nine works belonging to the Masaveu collections (on this occasion, more specifically to the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Collection and the private collection of Fernando Masaveu) that are related to the United States through two distinct channels.
On the one hand, six paintings by José Guerrero and Esteban Vicente, Spanish painters of the New York School, illustrate the influence and power of attraction exerted by the United States, and New York in particular, in Spanish art of the second half of the twentieth century. Spanning the 1950s to the 1970s and closely associated with American abstract expressionism, they represent only a small sample of the works by both artists that are held in the Masaveu collections: sixteen works in total (five by Guerrero and eleven by Esteban Vicente).
Meanwhile, three sculptures by US artists illustrate the presence of American art in this legacy, as well as the diversity and eclecticism of its interests and proposals, ranging from great names in contemporary art to young practitioners associated with street art.
