Jorge Oteiza Museum

Jorge Oteiza Museum (Alzuza)

Jorge Oteiza Museum in Alzuza.

Since 2003 the Oteiza Museum has housed the personal collection of the renowned sculptor and integral artist (Orio, 1908 - San Sebastián, 2003), consisting of 1,650 sculptures, 2,000 pieces from his experimental laboratory and an extensive collection of drawings and collages.

The Museum revolves around the dissemination of the legacy of Jorge Oteiza, one of the fundamental sculptors in the evolution of 20th century art, the author of sculptures based on aesthetic experimentation based on the clearing out of form and the emptying of sculpture, as well as being a versatile and multidisciplinary creator in the fields of essay, poetry, anthropology, architecture, language and proposals for making culture and art more socially accessible. The Museum, located in a building specially created by the architect Francisco Sáenz de Oiza, is in a rural setting of the village of Alzuza, 9 kilometres from Pamplona, where the sculptor lived for a large part of his life. It contains one of the most comprehensive monographic collections of contemporary art. Since April 2005 the new museum proposes a chronological and documented periods of the artist’s work, through the selection and provision of part of the artistic and documentary resources (many of them undiscovered) that are kept in the Museum at Alzuza. The exhibition highlights the importance for Oteiza of the debate of ideas and feelings that express the opposition between matter and the spirit; space and time; interior and exterior; light and dark.

Address:c/ de la Cuesta 7, 31486 Alzuza
Owner: Fundación Museo Jorge Oteiza
Content: artistic, documentary and literary work of the sculptor Oteiza
Opening hours:1 October - 31 May: Tuesday-Friday 1000-1500. Saturdays, Sundays and Public Holidays: 1100-1900- 1 June-30 September: Tuesday-Sunday 1100-1900. The museum is closed on Mondays and 25 December and 1 January. )The ticket office closes half an hour before the museum closing time). Groups of more than 20 people must be notified to the museum in advance. The Fundación Museo Jorge Oteiza offers guided visits by professional art guides with specialist knowledge of the permanent collection and the architecture of the building. Information and reservations from Monday-Friday 0900-1400 on Tel. (+34) 948 332 074 and at e-mail info@museooteiza.org
Entrance fee: adults: 3 euros; students and retired people: 1.50 euros; Fridays and under-12s: free of charge
Tel. : 948 332 074.
E-mail: info@museooteiza.org

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