Page 24 - World of Art Contemporary Art magazine: The 2023 Guggenheim issue

WORLD-CLASS ART accessibility and dissemination of art, making it possible
for new gazes to be cast on the contemporary world from
perspectives whose discovery is an enrichment. In this
way, it has also enabled many people to draw closer to
a wide variety of artistic works, proposals, and visions,
and to explore their significances. We fully agree with
the inclusive focus that characterizes the Museum and
aim to collaborate in promoting it, allowing an ever larger
public to share in aesthetic enjoyment, cultural activity,

Asier Mendizabal, Nom de guerre, 2007 Concrete, metal, and ethanol combustion
Burner: 56 x 80 x 38 cm. Dimensions variable. Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa. ©
Asier Mendizabal, Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, Bilbao, 2022

and debates on the most urgent issues on the basis of the
reflection that modern and contemporary artworks often
inspire on key topics of our time.
The connection between the local and the international,
the synergies between art and the different spheres of
human activity, and the interaction between cultural
production and other areas of the economy are other
important dialogues that have been stimulated by the
existence of the Museum and its original integration
in a wider process of industrial regeneration. The
transformation begun by Bilbao in the late 1990s, which
very soon became an international economic and
urbanistic model, continues its unceasing evolution
today, oriented toward a future where art and culture will
continue to play an outstanding role. For its part, BBK will
continue to support this progress, contributing to a greater
knowledge, understanding, and diffusion of contemporary
art among all people, and always strengthening the
unceasing sociocultural development of Bizkaia.
Xabier Sagredo, Chairman of BBK
Yoko Ono, Hichiko Happo, 2014 Sumi ink on nine canvases 200 x 100 cm each
canvas, 200 x 900 cm overall. Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa. Gift of the artist. ©
Yoko Ono, Bilbao, 2022

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