The Fine Arts Museum of Valencia celebrates “Night at the Museum 2023
LZF Lamps and Gandia Blasco present their designs at the Fine Arts Museum of Valencia on the occasion of the València Design Fest, an event that combines art, design and gastronomy.
For the second consecutive year, the Fine Arts Museum of Valencia has teamedup with the avant-garde and contemporary design of the Valencian firms LZF Lamps and Gandia Blasco, on the occasion of the València Design Fest, presenting a special exhibition and event: ‘Night at the Museum 2023’, held on the night of 19 September.
On this occasion, LZF Lamps, the Valencian lighting firm known for fusing craftsmanship, natural wood and artistic design, will present a new collection created by German designer Bodo Sperlein. Meanwhile, Gandia Blasco, the renowned Mediterranean designers of handmade outdoor furniture and contemporary rugs and accessories, with its GAN brand, will present GOZ, a new collection of hand-woven rugs by the celebrated Japanese architect Kengo Kuma. Woven from wool and teak wood strips, the collections with that of LZF Lamps, which also handcrafts its lamps from natural wood veneers.“Promoting accessibility to art for everyone is crucial, and holding exhibitions and events in museums isa great way to achieve this goal”, says Sandro Tothill, co-founder of LZF Lamps. These avant-garde design pieces will coexist for another month with the works of art of the Museo deBellas Artes de València and can be visited from 19 September to 19 October.“For us, in the context of the Valencia Fine Arts Museum, contemporary furniture has the quality of contextualising classical art in the present moment. It is important to know our past, to recognize beauty through time”.Alejandra Gandia-Blasco, creative and communications director of the Gandia Blasco Group The Fine Arts Museum of Valencia, the main museum of reference in the Valencian Community, stands out especially for its collections of Valencian medieval painting, as well as for its exceptional collections from the end of the 19th century and first half of the 20th century, the so-called ‘Silver Age’ of Valencian art, The Museum of Fine Arts is celebrating the centenary ofJoaquin Sorolla’s death this year with a large monographic exhibition in collaboration with the María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Foundation, the layout of which is inspired by a design by the architectLina Bo Bardi. The director of the Museo de Bellas Artes de València, Pablo González Tornel, said: “The Museode Bellas Artes de València is once again teaming up with the most prestigious Valencian design to celebrate the fact that València is the home of the arts”. González Tornel stressed: “Mariví Calvo andAlejandra Gandia-Blasco are the contemporary links in a chain of excellent artists of which Joanes, Ribera and Sorolla have been part”.
“In Sorolla Year, it is important to claim that the artistic vitality ofValencia is not a reality of the past but is projected into the future with the same power as in the time of Blasco Ibáñez”, concluded the director. The official inauguration of ‘Night at the Museum 2023’ was celebrated with an exclusive event in which guests, friends and collaborators from the design world enjoyed a cocktail party in the cloister with finger food by some of the best restaurants and chefs in the city.The ‘Night at the Museum 2023’ is supported by the Fundació del Disseny de la Comunitat Valenciana and Feria Habitat Valencia and will be held from 18 to 22 September 2023.