On the occasion of the exhibition So far, so close. Guadalupe of Mexico in Spain, Manuel Arias, Head of the Sculpture Collection up to 1700 at the Museo Nacional del Prado, will be in conversation with the exhibition’s curators: Jaime Cuadriello, Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and researcher at the Institute of Aesthetic Research (Mexico), and Paula Mues, Professor at the National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museology of the National Institute of Anthropology and History of Mexico.

New Dialogues on Painting

Conversation by its very nature generates knowledge, all the more so when it concerns the experience of the arts. When do we converse with greater enjoyment than in museum galleries, or on leaving the cinema or the theatre? Numerous writings on art have taken the form of dialogue, as we know, for example, from those by Francisco de Holanda and Vicente Carducho. With the aim of intensifying a dialogue that the Museo del Prado has always nurtured—that established between its collections and contemporary creation—the Centre for Studies convenes a series of encounters entitled New Dialogues on Painting. Whether prompted by one of the Museum’s temporary exhibitions or by an engagement with any aspect of the permanent collection, the New Dialogues on Painting invite artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers and other creators to converse, to renew values and to debate differences within a dialogue articulated through the experience of painting.