The euro as a canvas: European Central Bank contest to redesign banknotes
Two themes have been selected for the new notes: 'Europe's Rich Cultural Heritage' and 'Rivers & Birds', symbolising freedom and our connection to nature respectively. The contest is open to any designers residing in an EU country. To mark the event, we explore the use of the banknote as art object and motif in some of the works in the Banco de España Collection.
Fourteen Works from the Collection Loaned to Exhibitions by Spanish Art and Museum Organisations
The pieces include three prints from Goya's series of 'Follies' and 'Disasters of War'; an oil painting by Joaquín Sorolla ('In the Tavern. Zarauz'); a painting by Soledad Sevilla ('Las Meninas V') and two late-seventeenth-century paintings of flower vases by Gabriel de la Corte.
'Itineraries' section updated with a new podcast inviting listeners to imagine 'another history of money'
The new itinerary is the result of a series of conversations between curator and writer Sonia Fernández Pan and artists Patricia Esquivias, Francesc Ruiz, Rubén Grilo and Fritzia Irízar, in which the artists discuss their works in the bank's collection, reflecting on money and the economy and their symbolic and material effects on the lives of people and territories.
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