2015
Annual Report
Zilla Lautenegger, Rondó
Work shown at the Santander Art Gallery
during the exhibition All the World’s a Stage:
Works from the Goetz Collection
(February-June 2015)
2015
Annual Report
Board of Trustees
Chairman
Mr. Antonio Escámez Torres*
Chairman of Santander Consumer Finance
Secretary
Mr. Antonio de Hoyos González*
Managing Director
Mr. Borja Baselga Canthal
Trustees
HRH Princess Irene of Greece
Chairwoman of World in Harmony
Mr. Fernando de Asúa Álvarez*
Vice-Chairman of Técnicas Reunidas, S.A.
Mr. Antonio Basagoiti García-Tuñón
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Santander TOTTA
Mr. Ignacio Benjumea Cabeza de Vaca*
Non-Executive (Independent) Director,
Banco Santander
Mr. Juan Manuel Cendoya Méndez de Vigo*
Executive Director of Communication, Corporate
Marketing and Research of Banco Santander
Mr. Rodrigo Echenique Gordillo*
Executive Vice-Chairman of Banco Santander
Mr. Víctor García de la Concha
Honorary Director of the Spanish Royal Academy
Director of Instituto Cervantes
Mr. Alfonso Martínez de Irujo y Fitz-James Stuart¹
President of Executive Education, IE Business School
Dean of the Spanish Council of Nobles
Duke of Híjar
Mr. Jaime Pérez Renovales*²
General and Board Secretary, Banco Santander
* Members of the Executive Committee
1. Appointed to the Board of Trustees on 30 June
2015 by decision of the Board of Directors of Banco
Santander, S.A.
2. Appointed to the Board of Trustees on 1 December 2015 by
decision of the Board of Directors of Banco Santander, S.A.
3. Mr. José María Segovia de Arana, a trustee of the foundation
since 1993, passed away on 4 January 2016.
Mr. Rafael Puyol Antolín
Professor and Vice-President of
Fundación IE
Mr. José María Segovia de Arana³
Professor of Medical Pathology
Mr. Juan Velarde
Chairman of the Royal Academy of Moral
and Political Sciences
Table of Contents
12 Art
6 The Foundation in Figures
8 Letter from the Chairman
10 Introduction
14 Banco Santander Collection
22 Santander Art Gallery
26Exhibitions
36Partnerships
38Artist's Notebook
72 Debates
An online version of Fundación Banco
Santander's 2015 Annual Report is also
available and can be accessed from different
digital devices by scanning the QR code.
www.fundacionbancosantander.com
74Art
76History
78Literature
79Journalism
80Science
81 Summer Courses
40 Music
42 Fundación Albéniz
44Family Concerts
45Teatro Real in Madrid
46 Gran Teatre del Liceu
47Santander International Festival
48Palau de la Música Catalana
49Orfeón Donostiarra
82 Publications
84Literature
86 Exhibition Catalogues
88Economy
89Environment
50 Education & Young Talent
52 Educational Projects
58 Young Talent
90 Social Outreach
90Santander Ayuda
60 Environment
62Recovery of Nature Areas
67 Environmental Indicators
92 Partnerships
92Hispania Nostra
93Fundación Princesa de Asturias
93 Real Instituto Elcano
68 Scientific Research
70 Spanish National Cancer Centre (CNIO)
94 Name Index
The Foundation
in Figures 2015
1,000
960
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in the Banco
in the Banco
and one restoration project
Santander Collection
Santander Collection
involving works in the Banco
works of art
coins
loans
Scientific
Research
2.09%
Environment
5.60%
Education &
Young Talent
12.11%
Music
20.83%
Art
31.50%
Santander Collection
12,781
324
66
to the Santander Art Gallery
enjoyed workshop-tours at the
attended the dynamic tours offered
Santander Art Gallery
at the Santander Art Gallery
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67
Art
attended by 8,625 people
Music
visitors
6
exhibitions
organised, with over
families
environmental
projects
Debates
6.58%
school groups
lectures
Publications
5.72%
Activities
Education & Young Talent
440,000 visitors
Social Outreach
6.58%
Partnerships
8.99%
Totals*
2,620,570 €
1,732,184 €
1,006,943 €
Environment
465,612 €
Scientific Research
174,317 €
547,183 €
Publications
475,365 €
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146,525
57
Debates
institutions
Social Outreach
547,372 €
released, with a print run of
and 117,509 unique users
in the fields of culture,
Partnerships
747,867 €
environment and science with
Total
which the foundation regularly
*Administrative and general costs are divided proportionally among the areas.
publications
13,000 copies
visits to the website
8,317,413 €
collaborates
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Letter from the Chairman
Antonio
Escámez
Torres
Chairman
Honouring its commitment to society, Fundación
Banco Santander maintains an intense programme
of activities that promote the arts, care for the
environment and support education as a driving force
of progress.
In the key area of music sponsorship, the foundation
supports Fundación Albéniz, Teatro Real (Madrid),
Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona), the Santander
International Festival and Orfeón Donostiarra, among
other organisations.
For nearly 25 years, the foundation has worked to bring
social and cultural improvements to the communities
in which the bank operates, and over that time its
strategic plan has come to include initiatives in a
wide range of fields: art, music, literature, sustainable
development, social outreach and the promotion of
young talent.
Environmental protection initiatives are one of the
cornerstones of our activity, and in this respect the
foundation pursues various programmes to recover
degraded nature areas and protect endangered species.
In the area of art, the foundation manages, preserves
and promotes the Banco Santander Collection,
organises one major exhibition each year in Financial
City featuring the finest international contemporary
art collections, and participates in prestigious fairs
to encourage collecting. It is also a dedicated patron
of the arts, collaborating with institutions such as
Patrimonio Nacional and Museo ABC. With the
former, the foundation organises an annual exhibition
at the Royal Palace in Madrid, and with the latter
it supports creativity and publicises the talent of
young artists in the field of drawing through the
Conexiones (Connections) programme. The foundation's
commitment to young talent and education is also
expressed in interesting educational projects, offered
in collaboration with leading institutions such as the
Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, the MACBA in Barcelona,
the CA2M in Móstoles and La Panera in Lleida.
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Knowing the importance of scientific research, the
foundation cooperates with the Spanish National
Cancer Research Centre on projects to advance the
knowledge, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of
cancer in Spain.
Publishing and the organisation of debates and lecture
series on literature, art, history, science, journalism and
the economy round out the foundation's activities.
All of this is possible thanks to the invaluable
cooperation of the bank and the support of its board of
directors—especially its chairman, Ana Botín—as well
as the backing of the foundation's board of trustees and
the enthusiasm of its dedicated team of professionals,
whom I encourage to persevere in pursuing the
foundation's ambitious goals.
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Introduction
Borja Baselga
Canthal
Managing
Director
Fundación Banco Santander made great strides towards
achieving its strategic goals in 2015 and is eager to
tackle the challenges of 2016, confident in the belief that
its cultural activities, its unswerving commitment to
environmental stewardship and its constant support of
education will contribute to the advancement of society.
Continuing its efforts to promote artistic knowledge
by making major new collections available to the
general public, the foundation will exhibit an important
selection of works from Qatar Museums, one of the
world's largest collections of modern and contemporary
Arab art, at the Santander Art Gallery. Additionally,
as part of our standing collaboration agreement with
the Spanish heritage agency Patrimonio Nacional, we
are preparing an ambitious show at the Royal Palace
in Madrid with pictorial and sculptural masterpieces
of the Seicento held in the royal collections, some of
which have never been exhibited before or are kept in
relatively inaccessible locations.
In its ongoing efforts to encourage collecting, the
foundation will once again participate in ARCOmadrid,
the contemporary art fair, by organising the now
traditional Collectors' Forum and First Collector, a
programme that offers personalised advice on buying
contemporary art.
To foment artistic production, we will continue
working with Museo ABC to boost the careers of
artists working in the medium of drawing through
the Conexiones (Connections) programme, and with
the artists' residency programme of the JustMadrid
fair, JustResidence. Additionally, the 4th Fundación
Banco Santander Award for Artistic Production will be
presented in the context of OpenStudio.
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In keeping with the bank's policy of supporting
education and promoting young talent, the
foundation maintains three solid lines of action:
educational patronage (sponsoring the educational
programmes of the Museo Reina Sofía, CA2M and
MACBA, among other top institutions), didactic
activities offered at the Santander Art Gallery, and
Emplea Cultura, a programme that offers young people
career opportunities in the contemporary art world.
Moreover, in 2016 the foundation will maintain its
partnerships with leading music institutions such as
the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatro Real
in Madrid and Fundación Albéniz; we will launch new
programmes for sustainable development and the
recovery of natural heritage in Castellón, Albacete
and Ciudad Real; and we will continue to support the
Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) on
various scientific research projects.
We will also continue to organise and sponsor lecture
series on a variety of themes. Our publishing activity
this year will include the addition of two new volumes
to the Fundamental Works Collection, one dedicated
to Elena Fortún and Matilde Ras and the other to León
Felipe, as well as the publication of a new Fundamental
Works Notebook featuring selected journalistic articles
by Juan Larrea to mark the centenary of his birth.
Finally, with the launch of the new Santander Ayuda
programme, we will offer financial aid to different
non-profit organisations with the goal of facilitating
social outreach initiatives that have a positive impact on
people's lives.
All of us who work at the foundation aspire to improve
day after day, offering projects of the finest quality and
earning the trust of the society we are wholeheartedly
committed to serving.
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Arte
Proyectos educativos
Arte
Proyectos educativos
Art
14Banco Santander Collection
22 Santander Art Gallery
26Exhibitions
36Partnerships
38Artist's Notebook
Matthias Weischer, Treppchen
(detail). Work shown at the
Santander Art Gallery during the
exhibition All the World's a Stage:
Works from the Goetz Collection
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Banco
Santander
Collection
Eduardo Chillida,
Elogio de la luz XVI
(In Praise of Light XVI),
Banco Santander Collection
Fundación Banco Santander is responsible
for managing, preserving and promoting
the Banco Santander Collection, which
comprises over one thousand works from
the 16th century to the present day and
is considered one of the most important
private collections in Spain.
Although the bulk of the collection consists
of pictorial works by renowned masters
such as El Greco, Zurbarán, Van Dyck,
Tintoretto, Picasso, Tàpies and Barceló, it
also contains sculptures by contemporary
artists like Chillida, Serra, Kapoor, Deacon
and Graham. The collection is rounded out
by an important number of tapestries from
the best European factories of the 16th, 17th
and 18th centuries, as well as a significant
selection of coins and notes that document
the monetary history of the Iberian
Peninsula from the third century BC to the
present.
The Banco Santander Collection has been
growing for more than 150 years and is
actually a collection of collections, compiled
from the artistic holdings of the different
financial institutions that have merged over
the years into what is now Banco Santander.
Banco Santander
Collection online
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ART
Banco Santander Collection
Loans
ART
Banco Santander Collection
Loans
Loans
In 2015, the foundation loaned the
following works from the Banco
Santander Collection to be included in
various exhibitions.
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Cristina
Iglesias
Anonymous Follower
of Francisco de Goya
José
Navarro Llorens
Sin título
(Untitled)
Retrato de Meléndez Valdés
(Portrait of Meléndez Valdés)
Niños en la playa
(Children on the Beach)
Exhibition
The Guest Work
Exhibition
Donoso Cortés: The Challenge
of Liberalism and Revolution
Exhibition
Summer Days: From Sorolla to Hopper
Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao
13.01.2015 – 13.04.2015
El Águila Exhibition Hall, Madrid
24.03.2015 – 31.05.2015
Museo Carmen Thyssen, Málaga
28.03.2015 – 06.09.2015
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ART
Banco Santander Collection
Loans
ART
Banco Santander Collection
Loans
Isidre
Nonell
Guillermo
Pérez Villalta
Evaristo
Valle
Ignacio
Zuloaga
Francisco
de Zurbarán
Giovanni Battista
Piranesi
Cantante de cabaret
(Cabaret Singer)
El ámbito del pensamiento
(The Realm of Thought)
Vagabundos
(Vagabonds)
Las tres primas
(The Three Cousins)
San Miguel arcángel
(The Archangel Michael)
Parere su l’Architettura
(Opinions on Architecture)
Exhibition
The Rose of Fire:
Picasso and Gaudí's Barcelona
Exhibition
Simon Zabell: Drawing and Translation
Exhibition
The Visiting Work
Exhibition
Ignacio Zuloaga and Manuel de Falla:
History of a Friendship
Exhibition
Zurbarán. Master of Detail
Exhibition
Elena Alonso: The Space Around
Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara
19.04.2015 – 19.07.2015
Museo ABC, Madrid
20.05.2015 – 30.08.2015
Museo Evaristo Valle, Gijón
02.08.2015 – 13.09.2015
CentroCentro Cibeles de Cultura
y Ciudadanía, Madrid
25.09.2015 – 31.01.2016
Stiftung Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf
10.10.2015 – 31.01.2016
Museo ABC, Madrid
03.12.2015 – 28.02.2016
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ART
Banco Santander Collection
Art Restoration
ART
Banco Santander Collection
Art Restoration
Art Restoration
One of the foundation's tasks is to
ensure the proper conservation of the
Banco Santander Collection. In 2015 the
work Retrato de caballero (Portrait of a
Gentleman), recently attributed to Agustín
Esteve (Valencia, 1753-1820), was restored.
The painting, made circa 1805, had a
darkened, dull appearance due to the
layer of grime covering the surface and
the oxidation of the varnishes. These
factors gave the picture a greyish tinge
that concealed the true depth of the
compositional elements and diminished the
space between figure and ground, reducing
everything to a single plane.
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After cleaning the pictorial surface, filling
in the lacunas, reintegrating colour losses
and re-varnishing the work, the background
recovered its original greenish hue, typical
of Esteve's style, and the volume of the
different elements in the composition was
restored.
The frame also underwent a restoration
process that involved removing the
accumulated grime and reintegrating the
gold leaf where it had suffered losses,
scrapes or dents.
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ARTE
Historia
Subcapitulo
Santander
Art
Gallery
ARTE
Historia
Subcapitulo
Exhibition All the
World's a Stage:
Works from the Goetz
Collection at the
Santander Art Gallery
The Santander Art Gallery, located in
Financial City in Boadilla del Monte (Madrid),
alternates the exhibition of works in the
Banco Santander Collection with special
shows featuring prestigious international
collections of contemporary art.
After hosting the Daros Latinamerica
Collection from Switzerland (2010), the
Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo from
Italy (2011), the Rubell Family Collection
from the United States (2012), the Cranford
Collection from Great Britain (2013) and the
Grazyna Kulczyk Collection from Poland
(2014), between February and June 2015
Fundación Banco Santander welcomed
selected works from the Goetz Collection out
of Germany.
The rest of the year, the gallery displayed
more than two hundred works from the Banco
Santander Collection. Novelties included
several works acquired as a result of the merger
between Banesto and Banco Santander:
Landscape with Shepherds by Adam Pynacker,
Baile en el café Novedades de Sevilla by Joaquín
Sorolla, Mettere al mondo il mondo by Alighiero
Boetti, Circle of Standing Stones by Richard Long
and Intrine by Carl Andre. Also on display was a
remarkable painting by Alonso Sánchez Coello,
Juana de Mendoza, Duchess of Béjar, with a Dwarf,
recently acquired to expand the collection's
16th-century holdings.
Visitors in the course of 2015
12,781 people
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ART
Santander Art Gallery
Visitors
ART
Santander Art Gallery
Visitors
Individuals
The Santander Art Gallery can be visited
free of charge from 10 am to 5 pm,
Monday to Thursday, and from 10 am
to 3 pm on Fridays. When temporary
exhibitions are on, the gallery also
opens on weekends from 10:30 am to 2
pm. For information on the Santander
Art Gallery's special visiting hours
during the summer, Christmas and
Easter holidays, please call:
(+34) 91 259 67 18/19
Figures for 2015
• 997 individual visitors
• 1,067 employees of Grupo Santander City
• 1,156 VIP visitors
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Cultural Groups
Families
Schools
Cognitive Diversity
Guided tours (by appointment)
• Monday to Friday at 10 am
• Free bus transport on
Wednesdays, leaving from Paseo de
la Castellana 103
• Bookings: (+34) 91 259 67 18/19
• Directions to Grupo Santander
City are provided on the foundation's
website
From Monday to Friday, the Santander
Art Gallery offers guided tours of both
the permanent collection and temporary
exhibitions for groups of schoolchildren,
university students and cultural
associations and institutions.
On Saturdays and Sundays, Fundación
Banco Santander offers free tours for
families, designed to help children
and parents experience art history in
a fun, enjoyable way by exploring the
Banco Santander Collection and other
contemporary art collections shown at
the gallery each year.
The Santander Art Gallery offers
free dynamic tours of the permanent
collection and the temporary
exhibitions for primary school
students on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The foundation's website contains
educational resources that teachers can
use to prepare for the visit in class.
As part of its educational activities, and
with the goal of making art accessible
to all, Fundación Banco Santander has
a programme designed for visitors with
cognitive diversity (autism, Down's
syndrome and acquired brain injury)
and/or hearing and visual impairments.
Guided tours for employees
• Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday at 3 pm
• Bookings: (+34) 91 259 67 18/19
Services
• Free bus transport leaving from Paseo
de la Castellana 103, booking required
• Bookings: (+34) 91 259 67 18/19
Information and bookings
• (+34) 91 781 51 58
• actividadesfundacion@
gruposantander.com
Information and bookings
• (+34) 91 323 28 72
Figures for 2015
• 179 cultural groups
• 6,526 participants
Figures for 2015
• 324 families
• 1,219 participants
Figures for 2015
• 66 school groups
• 1,611 participants
Figures for 2015
• 4 groups
• 205 participants
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ARTE
Historia
Subcapitulo
ARTE
Historia
Subcapitulo
Exhibitions
In 2015, Fundación Banco Santander
organised the following temporary
exhibitions:
• All the World’s a Stage: Works from the
Goetz Collection
• Simon Zabell: Drawing and Translation
(Conexiones ’09)
• Elena Alonso: The Space Around
(Conexiones ’10)
• Contemporary Art in the Palace: Painting
and Sculpture in the Royal Collections
• Zurbarán: Master of Detail
• The Guest Work
Exhibition All the
World's a Stage:
Works from the Goetz
Collection at the
Santander Art Gallery
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Art
Exhibitions
Art
Exhibitions
All the World’s a Stage
Works from the Goetz Collection
Venue
Santander Art
Gallery, Boadilla del
Monte (Madrid)
Dates
21.02.2015
14.06.2015
Visitors
7,519
Catalogue
Virtual tour
Guided group tours
Workshop-tours
for families
Tours for groups
with cognitive
diversity
Fundación Banco Santander supports contemporary
art by exhibiting major private collections at the
Santander Art Gallery, located in Financial City in
Boadilla del Monte (Madrid). In 2015 the gallery
welcomed an important selection of works from
the Goetz Collection, one of Germany's most
prestigious private collections.
All the World's a Stage featured ninety-three pieces
carefully chosen by the curator, Karsten Löckemann,
as examples of how theatre and the performing arts
have influenced visual artists. The show included
photographs, installations, sculptures, videos and
paintings by internationally renowned artists such
as Matthew Barney, Janet Cardiff, Stan Douglas,
Elmgreen & Dragset, Jeff Wall, Ulrike Ottinger,
Hans-Peter Feldmann, Candida Höfer, Hans Op de
Beeck and Michael Kunze, all of which were related
to performance, theatricality or staging.
Minisite
Exhibition
minisite
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Art
Exhibitions
Art
Exhibitions
Conexiones ’09
Conexiones ’10
Simon Zabell: Drawing and Translation
Elena Alonso: The Space Around
Venue
Museo ABC, Madrid
Dates
20.05.2015
30.08.2015
Visitors
21,732
The exhibition programme Conexiones
(Connections), a joint endeavour between
Fundación Banco Santander and Museo ABC, aims
to encourage artistic creativity and publicise the
collections managed by both institutions. For its
9th edition, the artist Simon Zabell (Málaga, 1979)
presented a show in which he investigated the
significance of drawing in his working method.
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rawing inspiration from Guillermo Pérez Villalta's
D
work El ámbito del pensamiento (The Realm
of Thought), owned by the Banco Santander
Collection, and various covers of the magazine
Blanco y Negro in the ABC Collection—including
works by Ramón Gaya, Ángeles Torner Cervera,
Roberto Martínez Baldrich, Hipólito Hidalgo de
Caviedes, Ramón Roqueta and Pedro Mairata—
Zabell explored the possibilities of colour through
paintings, sculptures and light installations created
specifically for the occasion.
Venue
Museo ABC, Madrid
Dates
03.12.2015
28.02.2016
Visitors
28,045
Elena Alonso (Madrid, 1981) was the artist chosen
for the 10th edition of Conexiones (Connections), an
exhibition programme co-organised by Fundación
Banco Santander and Museo ABC to publicise
the work of contemporary artists whose principal
medium of expression is drawing.
1765 print by Giovanni Battista Piranesi entitled
A
Parere su l'Architettura (Opinions on Architecture),
recently added to the Banco Santander Collection,
and the drawing La encerrada (Female Captive),
published in 1933 by the newspaper ABC to
illustrate Rafael Alberti's eponymous poem, served
as the artist's point of departure for creating a
series of brand-new works dominated by geometry
and abstraction, in which she links drawing to other
disciplines like architecture and design.
Catalogue
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Art
Exhibitions
Art
Exhibitions
Contemporary Art in the Palace
Painting and Sculpture in the Royal Collections
Venue
Royal Palace, Madrid
Dates
20.10.2015
03.04.2016
Visitors
122,206
Catalogue
Educational
programme
Workshop-tours
for families
Lecture
series
Virtual tour
Minisite
With a view to highlighting and promoting the
artistic expressions of our time, Fundación Banco
Santander and the Spanish heritage agency
Patrimonio Nacional organised a major exhibition
at the Royal Palace in Madrid. The show featured a
selection of contemporary artworks, never publicly
displayed before, from the royal collections, the first
of which were acquired between 1987 and 1990 after
Rafael Canogar joined Patrimonio Nacional's board
of directors.
Curated by Cristina Mur de Víu, the exhibition
presented 44 pieces that illustrated how the
collection has evolved, from the first acquisitions in
the late 1980s to the latest additions nearly three
decades later. Featured artists included the members
of the El Paso collective and contemporaries of
this movement, such as José Guerrero, Lucio
Muñoz, Josep Guinovart, Albert Ràfols-Casamada,
Joan Hernández Pijuan, Manuel Mompó, Eusebio
Sempere, Esteban Vicente, Rafael Canogar, Antonio
Saura and Pablo Palazuelo, as well as representatives
of subsequent generations like Juan Genovés,
Eduardo Arroyo, Soledad Sevilla, José Manuel Broto,
José María Sicilia, José Manuel Ciria, Juan Uslé, Darío
Urzay and Miquel Barceló, among others.
Exhibition
minisite
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Art
Exhibitions
Art
Exhibitions
Zurbarán
The Guest Work
Master of Detail
Venue
Stiftung Museum
Kunstpalast,
Düsseldorf
Dates
10.10.2015
31.01.2016
Visitors
69,176
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In line with its art patronage policy, Fundación
Banco Santander sponsored the first retrospective
ever held in Germany of Baroque artist Francisco
de Zurbarán (1598-1664), organised in partnership
with the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza at the Stiftung
Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf. The show was
curated by Beat Wismer, director of the German
museum, and inaugurated by Her Majesty Queen
Letizia of Spain.
The foundation also lent a work in the Banco
Santander Collection, The Archangel Michael,
a composition of great formal sobriety and
remarkable quality painted by Zurbarán
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circa 1645-1650.The show represented a milestone
in Zurbarán scholarship, as it included many
of the works added to his catalogue after the
retrospective held at the Prado in 1988 and that
hosted by the Museo de Bellas Artes of Seville in
1998 to mark the 400th anniversary of his birth.
Nearly eighty works by the master of Seville and
his son, Juan de Zurbarán (1620-1649) were brought
from Spanish, European and American museums
and private collections, offering the German public
a splendid overview of the work of this great artist
of the Spanish Golden Age.
Venue
Museo de Bellas
Artes, Bilbao
Visitors
191,702
Fundación Banco Santander sponsors The Guest
Work programme at the Museo de Bellas Arts of
Bilbao, which temporarily exhibits pieces from
other institutions at the Basque gallery.
The 2015 programme opened with an alabaster
sculpture made by Cristina Iglesias in 1990, on
display between 13 January and 13 April courtesy
of the Banco Santander Collection.
From 14 April to 13 July, the featured work was
El vendedor de tapices (The Tapestry Seller), a
watercolour on paper with an Orientalist theme
painted in 1870 by Mariano Fortuny and now held
at the Museu de Montserrat in Barcelona.
From 14 July to 2 November the guest work was
an anonymous Roman portrait in marble owned
by the Museo Arqueológico Municipal of Jerez
de la Frontera, one of the best examples of early
Roman portraiture in Hispania.
F inally, from 3 November 2015 to 15 February
2016, the museum welcomed a piece from Museo
Carmen Thyssen, Málaga, entitled Salida del baile
de máscaras (Leaving the Masked Ball), in which
Raimundo de Madrazo made skilful use of light
and shadow to capture a classic scene of late 19thcentury Parisian nightlife.
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Art
Partnerships
Partnerships
Fundación Banco Santander cooperates
with prestigious contemporary art fairs
and various institutions in Spain to support
collecting, promote artistic creativity and
carry out different initiatives.
Supporting Collectors
Supporting Artistic Production
At ARCOmadrid, the foundation offers the First Collector
programme to provide personalised advice to individuals
interested in buying contemporary art.
In the context of the JustMad fair, Fundación Banco
Santander organises JustResidence, a residency programme
that offers artists the chance to work in a new setting
alongside other creators.
At the SUMMA Contemporary Art Fair, it sponsors the
New Collectors Programme, introducing contemporary art
professionals to collectors interested in learning more about
today's art scene.
During the Estampa Contemporary Art Fair, the foundation
organises A Collector's Guide to Estampa, a programme that
offers guided tours of the fair led by prominent collectors.
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Additionally, through OpenStudio it offers the Fundación
Banco Santander Award for Artistic Production, a grant
package consisting of a three-month residency at Noestudio
for young Spanish artists in Madrid who lack studios of their
own, and a cash prize of three thousand euros to produce
their work.
Other Artistic Partnerships
Fundación Banco Santander sponsors the publication of a
guide on Francisco de Goya by the Foundation of Friends of
the Prado Museum, supports the exhibition programme of
Fundació Palma Espai d'Art, and is an institutional partner of
ARTIUM-Centro Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo.
In 2015, it also assisted Fundación Museo del Ejército with
the study, restoration and exhibition of the justacorps worn by
Captain Daoiz during the combats of 2 May 1808 in Monteleón
Artillery Park (Madrid) and part of the shroud in which Captain
Velarde was buried.
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Arte
Proyectos educativos
Arte
Proyectos educativos
Artist's
Notebook
Juan Uslé
Fundación Banco Santander works with
Matador magazine to publish an annual
artist's notebook, a unique, exquisitely
crafted publication edited by a different
contemporary artist each year.
In 2015 the featured artist was Juan Uslé
(Hazas de Cesto, Cantabria, 1954), one of
the most prestigious Spanish artists on
the international scene. A resident of New
York for over 25 years, Uslé has developed a
singular and unmistakable style of painting,
and his works are found in some of the
world's most important museums and
collections. Winner of the National Visual
Arts Prize in 2002, he participated in the
1992 Documenta in Kassel and represented
Spain at the 2005 Venice Biennale.
For this notebook, Uslé prepared twenty
watercolours, like visual entries in a travel
journal, where the protagonists are light
and the snowy whiteness of paper, delicate
geometry and lyrical abstraction.
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Música
Música
Music
42 Fundación Albéniz
44Family Concerts
45Teatro Real in Madrid
46 Gran Teatre del Liceu
47 Santander International Festival
48Palau de la Música Catalana
49Orfeón Donostiarra
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MUsic
MUsic
Fundación Albéniz
Educational and Artistic Programmes
For years, Fundación Banco Santander has participated in the artistic
and educational projects organised by Fundación Albéniz. In 1991 it
began to sponsor the school's Piano Chair, which has two teaching
units led by Professors Dimitri Bashkirov and Galina Eguiazarova
and offers special sessions by guest lecturers. In 2015, these master
classes were given by the international pianists Josep María Colom
and Ralf Gothóni. The Fundación Banco Santander Piano Chair
offers an average of 60 public concerts each year, including recitals,
chamber music performances and educational concerts.
The foundation is also involved in organising special concerts for
schoolchildren, specifically designed to help primary and secondary
pupils understand and experience music. In 2015, six performances
were offered within this programme at the National Music
Auditorium in Madrid.
It likewise supports the Santander Music and Academy Encounters,
which bring promising young musicians from Europe's most
prestigious schools and academies together with internationally
renowned teachers and conductors each summer. In 2015, the
foundation sponsored the concerts held at Argenta Hall in the
Cantabria Palace of Festivals in Santander on 19 and 22 July.
Finally, Fundación Banco Santander sponsored the final of the
Paloma O'Shea International Piano Competition on 4 August. Juan
Pérez Floristán, a former student of the Fundación Banco Santander
Piano Chair at the Reina Sofía School of Music, won first prize and
the gold medal.
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MUsic
MUsic
Family Concerts
Teatro Real in Madrid
2015 Programme
2015 Season
Fundación Banco Santander and Fundación Albéniz
co-organise four concerts each year for group
employees and their families at the El Solaruco
Auditorium in Grupo Santander City, featuring the
orchestras of the Reina Sofía School of Music.
In 2015, these concerts were held on 18 April, 13 June,
18 October and 19 December.
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The composer and music critic Álvaro Guibert and
Blanca Calvo, a pianist and professor at the Reina
Sofía School of Music, acted as hosts and explained
the pieces in the repertoire to the audience.
Fundación Banco Santander is one of the principal
sponsors of the musical season of the Teatro Real
in Madrid.
The ambitious opera programme opened in
2015 with Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and
Gretel, the world premiere of Mauricio Sotelo's
work El Público, and performances of La Traviata
by Giuseppe Verdi and Fidelio by Ludwig van
Beethoven. These were followed in the summer
by George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess and a double
bill: Goyescas by Enrique Granados, and Gianni
Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini.
The final quarter of the year kicked off with
Gaetano Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, continued
with Georg Friedrich Handel's Alcina, and
concluded with Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto.
The dance season included performances by
the Víctor Ullate Ballet, which presented a new
version of Manuel de Falla's El amor brujo; the
Hamburg Ballet with a free adaptation of Thomas
Mann's Death in Venice; the Nederlands Dans
Theatre company with the double bill Sehnsucht/
Schmetterling; and the Staatsballett Berlin,
currently directed by Nacho Duato.
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MUsic
MUsic
Gran Teatre del Liceu
Santander International Festival
2015 Opera for All Performances
Concert
Fundación Banco Santander supports the Gran
Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona by promoting and
sponsoring the season's "opera for all" or "budget"
performances. This initiative makes opera more
accessible to all audiences as part of the We Are
All Liceu project, which in 2015 coincided with
the celebrations of the 15th anniversary of the
theatre's reopening.
Budget performances offer special discounts
on tickets to encourage people from every walk
of life to discover opera and the artistic events
available at the Liceu. They are also an important
opportunity for young singers and up-and-coming
talents to gain experience and boost their careers.
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This year's programme allowed audiences to enjoy
such iconic operas as Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata,
Gaetano Donizetti's Maria Stuarda, Georges
Bizet's Carmen, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Così
fan tutte, and Gaetano Donizetti's Don Pasquale.
Fundación Banco Santander participated in
the 64th Santander International Festival by
sponsoring the concert held on 26 August in
Argenta Hall at the Palace of Festivals.
The leading expert on Rossini's work, Alberto
Zedda, conducted a performance of Staba Mater,
which premiered at the Monastery of San Felipe
el Real in Madrid in 1833, and La Morte di Didone,
defined by the master from Pesaro as a great
cantata for soprano and chorus. The concert
featured a stellar cast of performers, including the
soprano María José Moreno, the mezzo-soprano
Marianna Pizzolato, the tenor Celso Albelo and the
baritone Nicola Alaimo as soloists.
They were accompanied by the Cadaqués
Orchestra and the Orfeón Donostiarra, considered
one of the most important choral ensembles
in Spain. The large audience assembled in the
hall was treated to a splendid repertoire under
the baton of maestro Zedda, whose profound
knowledge of the composer and exquisite
musicality resulted in a brilliant performance that
revealed the full richness of Rossini's work.
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MUsic
MUsic
Palau de la Música Catalana
Orfeón Donostiarra
Orfeó Català Choir School
For years Fundación Banco Santander has supported the
Orfeó Català Choir School, an educational, artistic and
social project that provides musical training for children
and youth between the ages of 6 and 24.
The highlights of 2015 included a concert dedicated
to the composer Albert Guinovart by the Cor Jove,
the on-stage performance of Henry Purcell's Dido and
Aeneas at the Petit Palau, singing the Magnificat by
Johann Sebastian Bach with the Ensemble Méridien
at the Palau de la Música, and performing Gabriel
Fauré's Requiem during the opening concert of the OBC
(Barcelona Symphony Orchestra) season in the famous
Sagrada Família.
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2015 Concerts
The Cor de Noies sang Vivaldi's Gloria with the Vespres
d'Arnadí at the Palau de la Música and travelled to
Slovenia to give two concerts in Ljubljana and Nova
Gorica. For the Cor Infantil, the biggest events of the
year were the concert My Favourite Things, a tribute to
musicals in film history at the Palau de la Música, and
the concert in honour of Arvo Pärt, given with the Cor de
Noies in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Pi in Barcelona
and attended by the Estonian composer.
The five ensembles of the Choir School joined the Orfeó
Català in the traditional Sant Esteve (St. Stephen's Day)
concert on 26 December.
Fundación Banco Santander is one of the sponsors
of the Orfeón Donostiarra, an amateur choral group
founded in 1897 and one of Spain's most reputed
musical ensembles.
At the Radio France-Montpellier Festival they gave
a concert in Perpignan and closed the event with
the Orchestre National Montpellier LanguedocRoussillon under the baton of Christian Arming.
In 2015 the choir gave 36 concerts, including four
outside of Spain. With the Orchestre National
du Capitole de Toulouse, conducted by Tugan
Sokhiev, the singers participated in one of the Paris
Philharmonie's opening concerts and another in the
city of Toulouse.
The Orfeón also participated in the Musical
Fortnight, the Santander Festival and the
Ibermúsica Series with maestros Yuri Temirkanov,
Alberto Zedda, Jukka-Pekka Saraste and Zubin
Mehta. A final highlight was its performance of José
María Usandizaga's opera Las golondrinas during
the concerts organised to mark the centenary of
the Donostia-born composer's death.
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Educación y talento joven
Proyectos educativos
Educación y talento joven
Proyectos educativos
Education &
Young Talent
52Educational Projects
58 Young Talent
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Education & Young Talent
Educational Projects
Education & Young Talent
Educational Projects
Museo Reina Sofía
MACBA
Educational Programme
Teacher Training Programme
Fundación Banco Santander sponsors the
educational programme of the Museo Reina
Sofía, which aims to facilitate the understanding
and interpretation of contemporary art, foster
creativity, stimulate artistic sensibility and develop
critical thinking skills.
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To make art, culture and education available
to as many people as possible, the programme
encompasses a wide range of activities, including
children's workshops for schools and families,
guided tours, seminars, lectures and grants
for research fellowships at the museum. The
programme also makes a special effort to cater
for the needs of disabled and elderly persons and
groups at risk of social exclusion.
Fundación Banco Santander sponsors the
Professional Teacher Training Programme at the
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA),
in which more than 850 educators participated in
2015. The goal of this initiative is to offer primary and
secondary school teachers a chance to learn more
about contemporary art.
The programme includes various courses, workshops
and debates about today's art, provides teaching
material to conduct activities in the classroom,
promotes the sharing of teachers' personal
experiences and prepares them to introduce pupils
to the works in the MACBA Collection.
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Education & Young Talent
Educational Projects
Education & Young Talent
Educational Projects
CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo
Centro de Arte La Panera
Teen Education Project
Educational Project for Preschool Teachers
Fundación Banco Santander supports the Teen
Education Project at the CA2M Centro de Arte Dos
de Mayo in Móstoles, home of the Contemporary
Art Collection of the Region of Madrid, which
pursues an ambitious social mediation, exhibition
and research programme.
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The educational activities in the programme,
designed for middle and upper secondary
school pupils, include workshops, special tours
of the exhibitions and experimental projects
with artists. The centre also organises various
activities for teens in their free time, such as
video, film, photography, music and performing
arts workshops, to stimulate critical and creative
thinking among participants.
In 2015, Fundación Banco Santander began
working with Lleida City Council on a new
educational project at the Centro de Arte La
Panera. The goal is to establish educational
strategies related to contemporary art that will
help teachers design age-appropriate activities for
preschoolers between ages 0 and 3.
The artist Guillermo Mora, composer Carlos
Gómez and fashion designer Laura Torroba led the
sessions during the 2015/2016 school year. This
training gives teachers insight into the creative
processes of contemporary artists, which they can
then apply to their own educational experience in
preschool settings.
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Education & Young Talent
Educational Projects
Education & Young Talent
Educational Projects
Levadura
Entreacto
Artists-Educators Residency Programme
Supporting Young Artists
Fundación Banco Santander and Madrid City
Council organised the second edition of Levadura,
an innovative residency programme in Madrid for
international artists and educators that promotes
cooperation between cultural centres and public
schools in the city.
The goal of the programme is to introduce primary
school pupils to the concepts and methods of
contemporary creation in a participative way, in
direct contact with the artists.
Each participating cultural centre works with
artists, teachers and pupils on a project related
to one of its primary areas of interest: the visual
arts at Matadero, music at Conde Duque, new
technology at Medialab-Prado, and architecture
and its relationship with citizens at CentroCentro
Cibeles.
Fundación Banco Santander participated in the
third edition of Entreacto, an educational project
that offers Fine Art students at the Complutense
University of Madrid a chance to exhibit their
creations in art galleries along a street in Madrid
(Calle Doctor Fourquet) during the "down time"
between regular shows.
The schools involved in the programme were
chosen for their policy of treating education
as a dynamic experience in which pupils play a
proactive role.
Entreacto aims to introduce students to the
professional art world and encourage interaction
among the art scene's various agents.
In 2015, the selected projects included pieces based
on drawing, video, performance, photography, text
and installation art.
The participating galleries this year were: Louis 21,
Nogueras Blanchard, Maisterravalbuena, García,
Espacio Mínimo, Moisés Pérez de Albéniz, Alegría,
Silvestre and Marta Cervera.
Levadura
video
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Education & Young Talent
Young Talent
Education & Young Talent
Young Talent
Emplea Cultura
Spain Tech Center
Job Placement in the Culture Industry
Promoting Technological Talent
In 2015, Fundación Banco Santander, with the
support of Openbank, organised the second
edition of Emplea Cultura, a programme designed
to help young people find employment in the
contemporary visual culture industry.
Two different grants are offered: the first is for
organisations that need to fill vacant positions,
and the second is for the young candidates who
apply for them.
Fundación Banco Santander awards each winning
organisation an annual stipend of 23,000 euros.
This amount covers the employers' expenses as
well the gross salary for a full-time employee.
Fundación Banco Santander, the government
business agency Red.es, the Exports and
Investments Division of the Spanish Institute for
Foreign Trade (ICEX), and Banco Santander have
joined forces to support the Spain Tech Center
(STC), a project that involves various initiatives for
promoting Spanish tech firms in the international
arena. Fundación Banco Santander took over this
project in 2014 after the absorption merger with
Fundación Banesto Sociedad y Tecnología.
The organisations that received this financial aid in
2015 were: Asociación Haceria Arteak, Asociación
Open Mind Arte y Cultura, Consorcio de Galerías
Españolas de Arte Contemporáneo, Fundación de
los Comunes, Fundació Foto Colectania, Idensitat,
La Gran, Pista 34 SL, Plataforma Curatorial para el
Arte Contemporáneo Bar Project and Galería T20.
Spain Tech Center is a platform that helps Spanish
tech companies gain a foothold in strategic
markets. The facility in San Francisco's Silicon
Valley, which provides temporary or permanent
office space for Spanish SMEs, is a cutting-edge
business centre that offers constant support
in the form of professional advice, networking,
promotion and training in various fields. Companies
are awarded space in this facility based on their
suitability and potential for growth.
Emplea Cultura
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Environment
Recovery of Nature Areas
Environment
Recovery of Nature Areas
Environment
62Recovery of Nature Areas
67Environmental Indicators
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Environment
Recovery of Nature Areas
Environment
Recovery of Nature Areas
Recovery
of Nature Areas
Location of Fundación Banco Santander Projects in Spain
Roñanzas Peat Bog
Llanes, Asturias
Pollination project
Liébana district, Cantabria
Bear habitat restoration
Upper Sil Nature Area, León
Recovery of the Rubín Marshes
San Vicente de la Barquera, Cantabria
Sustainable management of the Atlantic Forest
Burgos and Cantabria
Honouring its environmental
commitments, Fundación Banco
Santander continues to work with
conservationist associations on a variety
of projects to recover degraded nature
areas and protect endangered species.
In addition to designing and
implementing a general action plan for
the total restoration of the selected area,
each project also includes an exhaustive
monitoring process over several years
to ensure that recovery is successfully
completed.
Evaluation and Maintenance
Constant evaluation of fieldwork results
allows us to measure the progress of
each intervention. In fact, once the initial
work phase is completed, maintenance
activities are decisive for achieving
the intended results. These sites can
be toured virtually on the foundation's
website thanks to the Recovery of Nature
Areas multimedia feature.
Recent Projects
Fundación Banco Santander and the
Fund for the Protection of Wild Animals
use apiculture to restore mountain
ecosystems in the Liébana district of
Cantabria. Under this pioneering project,
bee-keepers manage mobile pollination
units in key areas. This method is being
used as a model for action in other
regions with similar objectives.
Fundación Banco Santander works with
Fundación Naturaleza y Hombre on a
plan to recover 50,000 hectares of land
in the mountain regions of southeast
Cantabria and northern Burgos. The goal
is to consolidate a sustainable wood
pasture management model and prevent
forest fires in this ecosystem.
In partnership with Fundación Migres,
a series of actions are being carried out
to recover and consolidate the Spanish
imperial eagle population in Doñana
National Park in Huelva.
The construction of a wildlife corridor
to promote the dispersal of small birds
of prey, particularly the lesser kestrel, is
the central aim of the project currently
being developed with the Group for the
Rehabilitation of Autochthonous Wildlife
and Its Habitat (GREFA) in northwest
Castile-León.
With Fundación para la Investigación en
Etología y Biodiversidad, the foundation
is working to launch and manage a CITES
centre, a shelter for animals rescued
from illegal wildlife trade and possession.
Thanks to this initiative, new facilities
have been created to accommodate a
larger variety of animals, and there is
now a permanent programme to raise
awareness about the problems derived
from illegal wildlife trade.
El Planerón Bird Reserve
Belchite, Zaragoza
Conservation of endangered Iberian
plant life
Orense, Allariz (Orense) and Carnota
(La Coruña), Galicia
Conservation and
preservation of
sea turtles
Catalan coast
Wildlife corridors for birds of prey
Castile-León
Barranco del Hocino Yew Grove
Riba de Saelices, Guadalajara
La Trapa Biological Reserve
Andratx, Mallorca
New CITES Centre
Casarrubios del Monte,
Toledo
Area around the Talaván
Reservoir
Cuatro Lugares district,
Cáceres
Upper basin of the River Salobre
Hoz de la Vieja, Teruel
Reintroducing the
osprey
Odiel Salt Marshes,
Huelva
Recovery of the
Spanish imperial eagle
Doñana National Park,
Huelva
Thermophyle, laurel and pine forests
Nature areas, Tenerife
Recovery of Nature Areas
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Environment
Recovery of Nature Areas
Environment
Recovery of Nature Areas
New Projects in 2015
New Projects in 2015
Recovery of the Rubín Marshes
Conservation and Preservation of Sea Turtles
San Vicente de la Barquera, Cantabria
Catalan coast
In 2015, Fundación Banco Santander signed a
collaboration agreement with the Fund for the
Protection of Wild Animals to recover the Rubín
Marshes in San Vicente de la Barquera (Cantabria).
The aim of this project is the environmental and
ecological recovery of an 85-hectare area that
was artificially drained and dried out in previous
decades. Hopefully, the intervention will reinstate
the natural cycles of the intertidal territory in this
section of the marshes.
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The project calls for eradicating all allochthonous
flora in the area and breaking the dykes at
strategic points so that the land's natural flooding
cycles can resume. The eucalyptus trees that had
grown up on the terrain have already been cleared.
Once re-flooded, the action of the intertidal
waters should allow this desiccated marshland to
gradually return to its original state. In the areas
that will not be submerged, 3,000 holm oaks
have been planted. Measures will also be taken to
facilitate the reintroduction of the osprey (Pandion
haliaetus) in the district.
In 2015, Fundación Banco Santander and
Fundación para la Conservación y Recuperación
de Animales Marinos launched a project for the
conservation and preservation of sea turtles that
pass through and inhabit the Mediterranean
Sea, with a special emphasis on one of the most
endangered species: the loggerhead turtle (Caretta
caretta). The actions initiated in 2015, which will
continue in 2016, focus primarily on the coast of
Catalonia.
Three principal lines of work have been
established to achieve the project's goals:
research, conservation and awareness. Research
efforts aim to identify effective conservation
strategies for the species. To contribute to their
preservation, a study is already underway for the
assisted reproduction of sea turtles in captivity,
which will later be returned to the ocean. Finally,
an awareness and information campaign will be
organised—centred on the fishing industry in the
Ebro Delta area—to mitigate the primary threat
these animals face today: accidental capture.
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Environment
Environmental indicators
Environment
Recovery of Nature Areas
New Projects in 2015
Environmental
Indicators
Consumption at Foundation HQ
2015
2014
2013
169
172
170
Water (m3) / employee
13.00
12.29
12.14
FSC-certified paper (kg)
1,320
1,390
1,418
101.54
99.29
101.29
80
84
80
6.15
6.00
5.71
93,654
90,521
99,214
7,204.15
6,465.79
7,086.71
2015
2014
2013
Paper and cardboard (kg)
1,270
1,290
1,310
Paper and cardboard (kg) / employee
97.69
92.14
93.57
27
24
23
2.08
1.71
1.64
21
19
19
1.62
1.36
1.36
29
28
32
2.23
2.00
2.29
Water (m3)
FSC-certified paper (kg) / employee
Recycled paper (kg)
Recycled paper (kg) / employee
Electricity (kWh)
Electricity (kWh) / employee
Conservation of Endangered Iberian Plant Life
Orense, Allariz (Orense) and Carnota (La Coruña), Galicia
Waste Generated at Foundation HQ
Fundación Banco Santander has teamed up with
the Association for the Promotion of Research Galicia Ideas Bank to support the conservation of
two singular Iberian plant species on the verge of
extinction: Marsilea quadrifolia (an aquatic fern
whose foliage resembles a four-leaf clover) and
Quercus lusitanica (Lusitanian or gall oak).
In the case of Marsilea quadrifolia, the project's
goals are to preserve the last known natural
population in Spain, create new supply sources for
reintroducing the species in other zones, share the
results with the scientific community, and conduct
a social awareness-raising campaign.
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Quercus lusitanica is an excellent species for
restoring degraded and fire-ravaged soil, hence
the importance of facilitating its preservation
and distribution. To this end, a project has been
prepared in Orense for the germination and
monitoring of seedlings that will eventually be
transferred and planted in their native habitat, the
highlands of Carnota (La Coruña).
Genetic analyses performed in 2015 concluded
that there are two sub-populations of this species
within the area being studied.
Containers, plastics and tins (kg)
Containers, plastics and tins (kg) / employee
Landline telephones (units)
Landline telephones (units) / employee
Toners (units)
Toners (units) / employee
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INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)
INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)
Scientific
Research
70Spanish National Cancer
Research Centre (CNIO)
68
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Scientific Research
Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)
Scientific Research
Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)
Fundación Banco Santander-CNIO Postdoctoral Grant Programme
CNInnOtrain Programme
Fundación Banco Santander and Fundación
Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas
Carlos III have been working together since 2009
to promote cancer research in Spain by offering
a post-doctoral grant programme for young
scientists from prestigious institutions in the
United Kingdom and the United States.
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The project aims to bring young researchers to
Spain in order to encourage cutting-edge scientific
collaboration and knowledge-sharing between the
CNIO and other research centres.
Fundación Banco Santander, in partnership with
the CNIO, sponsors CNInnOtrain, a programme
designed by the IE Business School of Madrid
that gives post-doctoral researchers the business
education they need to develop research projects
successfully in the corporate world.
The programme combines normal classes with
online sessions where participants acquire basic
skills and knowledge of marketing, finance,
strategy, management and leadership. The projects
completed during the course are subsequently
evaluated by the CNIO to determine if they can be
developed into effective products for preventing,
diagnosing and treating cancer.
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arte
colección Banco santander
subcapítulo
arte
colección Banco santander
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74Art
76History
78Literature
79Journalism
80 Science
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Art
Debates
Art
ARCOmadrid
Portraits in the Royal Collections
Speaking of Contemporary Art
Collectors' Forum
Perspectives on Court Portraiture in Spanish Painting
Conversations with Artists at the Palace
Venue
Venue
Venue
IFEMA,
Madrid
Date
25.02.2015
27.02.2015
Fundación Banco Santander participates
in ARCOmadrid, the contemporary art
fair, by sponsoring a collectors' forum
where experts and amateurs are invited
to learn and share their thoughts about
the contemporary art market.
Three sessions were held in 2015:
"Collecting for the Public Good" and "The
Collection as a Life Story", led by the
essayist and professor at the Complutense
University of Madrid, Estrella de Diego,
and "Public-Minded Private Collectors
in Colombia", hosted by the visual arts
adviser for Colombia's Ministry of Culture,
Carolina Ponce de León.
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Other participants in these sessions
included Jorge Pérez, member of the
board of directors of the Pérez Art
Museum Miami; Ángela María Pérez
Mejía, deputy art manager for Banco
de la República de Colombia; José Darío
Gutiérrez, director of Proyecto Bauché;
María Mercedes González, director of
the Museo de Arte Moderno in Medellín;
and the private collectors Leon Amitai,
Estrellita Brodsky, Eduardo Constantini,
Rafael Londoño and Solita Mishaan.
Royal
Academy
of History,
Madrid
Date
03.02.2015
24.03.2015
In connection with the exhibition
Portraits in the Royal Collections: From
Juan de Flandes to Antonio López, held
at the Royal Palace in Madrid from
December 2014 to May 2015, Fundación
Banco Santander, in partnership with
Patrimonio Nacional and the Royal
Academy of History, organised a series of
lectures on court portraiture in Spain.
The lectures, coordinated by José Luis
Díez, director of the Royal Collections at
Patrimonio Nacional, analysed different
aspects of portraiture to gain a deeper
understanding of this instrument of
propaganda, representation and prestige
which produced some of the greatest
masterpieces of Spanish painting.
Royal
Palace,
Madrid
Date
10.11.2015
16.02.2016
While the exhibition Contemporary Art
in the Palace: Painting and Sculpture in
the Royal Collections was on view at the
Royal Palace in Madrid, Fundación Banco
Santander sponsored a series of debates
among critics, experts and artists
represented in the show.
Guillermo Pérez-Villalta debated with
Óscar Alonso Molina; Luis Gordillo with
Luis Martínez Montiel; José Manuel
Ciria with Carlos Delgado Mayordomo;
Soledad Sevilla with Yolanda Romero;
Alberto Reguera with Juan Manuel
Bonet; José Luis Fajardo with José
Manuel Caballero Bonald and Juan Cruz;
and Carlos Franco with Estrella de Diego.
The series concluded with a three-way
discussion between Antonio López, Julio
López Hernández and Francisco Calvo
Serraller.
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Art
Debates
History
Debates
History
Discover the Banco Santander
Collection
The Basque Country,
Land of Hidalgos and Nobles
Biographies and History
Joaquín Sorolla: Baile en el Café Novedades de Sevilla
Unique Moments in History
Venue
Venue
Santander
Art Gallery,
Boadilla del
Monte (Madrid)
Date
The foundation organised a lecture at
the Art Gallery in Grupo Santander City
for group employees on Joaquín Sorolla's
canvas Baile en el café Novedades de Sevilla
(Women Dancing Flamenco at the Café
Novedades in Seville), a recent addition to
the bank's art collection.
23.09.2015
Consuelo Luca de Tena, director of the
Museo Sorolla in Madrid, spoke about the
origins of the painting, commissioned by
the American collector Thomas F. Ryan,
and other works by the master from
Valencia found in the Banco Santander
Collection.
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Basque
Historical
Archive, Bilbao
Date
08.04.2015
29.04.2015
Fundación Banco Santander, Fundación
Cultural de la Nobleza Española (Cultural
Foundation of the Spanish Nobility)
and the Basque Historical Archive coorganised a lecture series entitled "The
Basque Country: Unique Moments in
History".
The Construction of the Nation and the Discourse of History: Of Black Legends and Patriotisms
Venue
CentroCentro
Cibeles
de Ciudadanía
y Cultura,
Madrid
Date
The historians Miguel Artola Gallego,
Francisco de Borja Aguinagalde, Jon
Arrieta and José María Imizcoz discussed
the importance of the "agent at court"
under the Ancien Régime, the first
attempt to define an aristocratic elite
in the Basque Country, the nobility's
difficult road to collective recognition,
and the role played by the Basque
and Navarran elite under the Bourbon
monarchs.
06.04.2015
04.05.2015
An analysis of the role played by
"official" history in forging concepts
such as nationhood and patriotism was
the theme of this year's Biographies
and History lecture series, organised
by Fundación Banco Santander in
partnership with Fundación Cultural de
la Nobleza Española (Cultural Foundation
of the Spanish Nobility).
oordinated by Carmen Iglesias, director
C
of the Royal Academy of History and
fellow of the Spanish Royal Academy, the
series featured lectures by Professors
Carmen Sanz Ayán, Harm den Boer, Juan
Francisco Fuentes and Joseph Pérez. The
speakers reviewed the history of Spain,
examining the facts as well as its black
legends and myths, to prove that it is not
the product of an inevitable essentialism
but of concrete circumstances with
specific political and civil protagonists.
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Debates
Literature
Debates
Literature
Debates
Journalism
The Present and Future of Arts
Journalism
El camino es nuestro
Castillo interior
Diario del Nuevo Mundo
Elena Fortún and Matilde Ras
León Felipe
Juan Larrea
Venue
Venue
Instituto
Cervantes,
Madrid
Fundación Banco Santander organised
two book launches to present El camino es
nuestro, a new volume in the Fundamental
Works Collection dedicated to the writers
Elena Fortún and Matilde Ras.
Date
21.01.2015
Venue
Embassy
of Spain,
London
Date
28.10.2015
In April 2015 a new Fundamental Works
Notebook was presented at Instituto
Cervantes in Madrid, a compilation of
texts by the Zamora-born poet León
Felipe entitled Castillo interior.
Date
The first, held at Instituto Cervantes in
Madrid, featured the participation of the
author Almudena Grandes, the journalist
Maxim Huerta, and the volume's editors:
Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles, professor
of Hispanic Studies at the University of
Exeter, and María Jesús Fraga, who works
with the Spanish Literature Department at
the Complutense University of Madrid.
The second event, held at the Spanish
embassy in London, consisted in a lecture
by Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles.
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14.04.2015
Venue
Instituto
Cervantes,
Madrid
Date
Participants included the director of
Instituto Cervantes, Víctor García de
la Concha, the writer, diplomat and
nephew of the poet, Fernando Schwartz,
and the volume's editors and foreword
authors, the professor of Literature
Gonzalo Santonja, and the director of the
Fundamental Works Collection, Javier
Expósito. Closing remarks were delivered
by Rosa Valdeón, mayor of Zamora and
chairwoman of the Fundación León
Felipe's board of trustees.
On 20 October 2015, Instituto Cervantes
in Madrid hosted the launch of the
Fundamental Works Notebook Diario
del Nuevo Mundo by Juan Larrea, one
of the most surprising writers of the
Generation of '27.
20.10.2015
Juan Manuel Díaz de Guereñu, professor
at Deusto University and author of
the foreword, and Gabriele Morelli,
professor at the University of Bergamo,
participated in the event.
Venue
Casa del Lector,
Madrid
Date
04.03.2015
13.05.2015
Fundación Banco Santander and Casa
del Lector, in association with the
Complutense University of Madrid,
organised a round of debates on "The
Present and Future of Arts Journalism".
These discussions analysed the state of
arts journalism today and created a space
for reflection and the exchange of ideas
among media professionals. The arts as
a cornerstone of the press, the present
and future of culture in the audiovisual
media, arts supplements and cultural
criticism were just some of the topics
debated during the sessions.
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Debates
Science
Debates
Summer Courses
Science and Society
Innovation, a Bridge between Science
and Society
Artists and Collectors
La Granda
Knowledge to Scale
A Crucial Relationship for Contemporary Art
Problems of a Globalised Economy
Venue
Venue
Venue
Venue
NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScI/ESA), and the
HST Orion Treasury Project Team
CentroCentro
Cibeles de
Ciudadanía y
Cultura,
Madrid
STScI-PRC06-01a
The 19th Science and Society lecture series,
organised by Fundación Banco Santander
and coordinated by Eduardo Punset,
reviewed the most important scientific
breakthroughs of recent years in the fields
of geography, astronomy, biotechnology
and genomics.
Date
02.03.2015
30.03.2015
Spanish
National Cancer
Research
Centre,
Madrid
Date
Javier Martín-Vide talked about anthropic
climate change; Álvaro Giménez discussed
our place in the universe; Fernando Simón
exposed the health risks associated with
the recent Ebola outbreak; and John Ellis
explained elementary particles and their
role in the birth of the universe.
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19.10.2015
Fundación Banco Santander and
IE Business School organised a debate at
the Spanish National Cancer Research
Centre (CNIO) entitled "Innovation, a
Bridge between Science and Society".
María Blasco, director of the CNIO,
and Ángel Gabilondo, professor of
Metaphysics at the Autonomous
University of Madrid, moderated by the
journalist Jorge Barriuso, discussed the
current situation of science in Spain, the
social perception of scientific research,
and its relationship with the mass media
as the primary conveyors of knowledge
to society.
Menéndez
Pelayo
International
University,
Santander
(Cantabria)
Date
27.07.2015
29.07.2015
Fundación Banco Santander partnered
with Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo
(IAC) and the 9915 Private Collectors'
Association to organise a course on
"Artists and Collectors: A Crucial
Relationship for Contemporary Art",
one of several summer courses offered
at Menéndez Pelayo International
University.
During the encounter, directed by
Isabel Durán Puertas, participants
reflected on the important role of the
collector as a promoter and transmitter
of cultural heritage and analysed
different facets of the artist-collector
relationship, without overlooking the
gallerist's role as a mediator in the
artistic process.
La Granda
Residence,
Avilés (Asturias)
Date
29.07.2015
31.07.2015
Fundación Banco Santander sponsored
the seminar "Problems of a Globalised
Economy", organised and led by
Juan Velarde and held at La Granda
Residence (Asturias) as part of its
general programme of summer courses.
María Josefa Fernández Arufe, Álvaro
Cuervo, Antonio Torrero, José Luis
García Delgado, Alejandro Macarrón,
José Villaverde, Francisco Cabrillo
and Fernando Rubiera discussed the
problems that the Spanish economy
faces today, the crisis of Spanish
savings banks, the vital role of families
in economic growth, and the economic
effects of Spain's ageing population,
among other topics.
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Literatura
Publicaciones
Literatura
Publications
84Literature
86 Exhibition Catalogues
88Economy
89Environment
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Publications
Literature
CUBIERTA L Felipe.QXD_cubierta Esteban Salazar OK.QXD 24/03/15 11:03 Página 1
Benjamín Jarnés
Elogio de la impureza
Ernestina de Champourcin
Poesía esencial
José Bergamín
Claro y difícil
Valentín Andrés Álvarez
Ensayo, narración y teatro
Juan Larrea
Poesía y revelación
Corpus Barga
Periodismo y literatura
Alfonso Reyes
La experiencia literaria y otros ensayos
Juan José Domenchina
Artículos selectos
Fernando Vela
Ensayos
Agustín de Foxá
Nostalgia, intimidad y aristocracia
Juan Chabás
Testigo de excepción
O B R A
F U N D A M E N T A L
Elena Fortún (1886-1952), creadora de la célebre saga de Celia, rebelde e inconformista, y
Matilde Ras (1881-1969), discreta y erudita, conocida gestora de los entrañables consultorios grafológicos de la prensa española de vanguardia, pertenecieron a la primera generación de feministas españolas con conciencia de ser grupo. Ambas autoras, autodidactas e
independientes, abordaron diversos géneros literarios y periodísticos siguiendo caminosmuy diferentes que se encontraron y desencontraron, manteniendo siempre el vínculo creado por la palabra escrita.
Matilde Ras escribe desde muy joven novelas y cuentos sin alcanzar el éxito soñado; sólo
cuando se sitúa frente a la escritura para analizarla consigue el reconocimiento general. Sus
cuentos de la vida y de la guerra, sus insólitos diálogos, sus ensayos del Quijote y sus primorosos diarios quedan recogidos en este volumen. Elena Fortún, escritora tardía, se estrena con comprometidas colaboraciones en la prensa sobre el feminismo para abordar después la espiritualidad heterodoxa y el cuento como género divulgativo. Pronto se revelará
su destreza para penetrar y expresar el universo infantil, sin que sus famosos escritos para
niños le impidan dejar testimonio de su compromiso social durante los duros días de la preguerra, la guerra y el exilio.
Ambas obtuvieron sus mayores éxitos en los años de la Segunda República. Entonces
sus caminos se encontraron y corrieron paralelos. Compartieron amistad, amor, casa y trabajo. El final de la guerra las aleja de Madrid, separándolas en dos exilios muy distantes. Por
más que coincidan muchas veces desde que, en 1948, Elena regresa a España, su verdadero
reencuentro tiene lugar en 1952, cuando Matilde Ras acompaña a Elena Fortún en su último camino.
Eugenio d’Ors
Historias lúcidas
Álvaro Cunqueiro
De santos y milagros
Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles es catedrática asociada de Estudios Hispánicos y Estudios de
Género en la Universidad de Exeter. Su labor docente e investigadora se ha centrado en la
historia del pensamiento feminista y la autoría femenina en España. Elena Fortún y su
mundo forman parte de su libro Autoras inciertas. Voces olvidadas de nuestro feminismo. De
entre sus trabajos sobre la generación de escritoras a la que Elena Fortún y Matilde Ras
pertenecieron destacan los libros He de tener libertad y Artistas y precursoras.
Fundación Banco Santander publishes the
Fundamental Works Collection with the
aim of rediscovering works by Spanishlanguage writers from the late 19th and early
20th centuries whom history has unjustly
consigned to oblivion. It also includes
obscure or rare works by better-known
authors.
Vicente Huidobro
Poesía y creación
Guillermo de Torre
De la aventura al orden
Ramón Pérez de Ayala
Viajes. Crónicas e impresiones
Eduardo Zamacois
Cortesanas, bohemios, asesinos y fantasmas
José García Nieto
Poesía
María Jesús Fraga es colaboradora del departamento de Literatura Española de la UCM.
Ha escrito varios trabajos de investigación para libros o revistas centrados en la obra de
Elena Fortún y en otras figuras próximas a la creadora de Celia, en particular la de la polígrafa Matilde Ras. Recientemente ha publicado el libro Elena Fortún, periodista.
Joan Perucho
De lo maravilloso y lo real. Antología
Elena Fortún y Matilde Ras
El camino es nuestro
Since 2012, the collection also includes
a series of publications known as
the Fundamental Works Notebooks,
compilations of short texts of any genre
which, for various reasons, were omitted
from their authors' bibliography.
C O L E C C I Ó N
O B R A
CUADERNOS
F U N D A M E N T A L
DE
OBRA
FUNDAMENTAL
Elena Fortún y Matilde Ras
EL CAMINO ES NUESTRO
Ú LT I M O S T Í T U LO S
COLECCIÓN OBRA FUNDAMENTAL
Fernando Vela
Ensayos
Agustín de Foxá
Nostalgia, intimidad y aristocracia
Juan Chabás
Testigo de excepción
Eugenio d’Ors
Historias lúcidas
Álvaro Cunqueiro
De santos y milagros
Vicente Huidobro
Poesia y creación
Guillermo de Torre
De la aventura al orden
Ramón Pérez de Ayala
Viajes. Crónicas e impresiones
Eduardo Zamacois
Cortesanas, bohemios, asesinos y fantasmas
José García Nieto
Poesía
Joan Perucho
De lo maravilloso y lo real. Antología
Elena Fortún y Matilde Ras
El camino es nuestro
CUADERNOS DE OBRA FUNDAMENTAL
Dionisio Ridruejo
Cartas íntimas desde el exilio (1962-1964)
Rosa Chacel
Astillas
COLECCIÓN OBRA FUNDAMENTAL
C U A D E R N O S
D E
C U A D E R N O S
D E
O B R A
F U N D A M E N T A L
CUADERNOS
DE
OBRA
FUNDAMENTAL
de la Colección Obra Fundamental, a aquellos escritores
contemporáneos en lengua española a los que la desmemoria histórica injustamente ha conducido al anonimato
He aquí el Castillo interior de León Felipe Camino (Tábara, 1884, México D. F.,
1968), que, como Teresa de Jesús, buscó en la vocación de la escritura los adentros de su alma en pos de traer a la tierra la salvación del espíritu, el dios más
humano que habita en nosotros. Español de México, mexicano de España, exide hoy como para el estudioso, que persigue encontrar el
liado del llanto, Moisés de cayado y luengas barbas, traductor y epítome de Walt
núcleo principal de la producción de estos escritores,
Whitman, cantor del pueblo y cantado por el pueblo. El lector encontrará en
aquello que los caracteriza y distingue frente a los restanestos «Aposentos» la fragua creativa del bardo peregrino, del poeta prometeico
tes autores de su tiempo. Esta colección no pretende recoque alimenta hogueras de salmos proféticos, versos encendidos y discursos incenger la obra completa de estos autores, sino las obras más
diarios, y en estas «Moradas» las confesiones del corazón y el alma a través de
destacadas y difíciles de conocer para el lector actual de
diferentes diálogos epistolares, entre los que sobresale el que compartió con Juan
esta pléyade de escritores que deben formar parte de nuesLarrea, visionario de la generación del 27, que llegará a convertirse en su maestra historia literaria del siglo XX.
tro y con el que mantendrá una relación de admiración e identidad hasta el final
de sus días. Las páginas de este volumen dan cuenta de las andanzas de un
Quijote que acaba convertido en Rocinante, de un poeta que permanece ajeno a
aquello que no forma parte de su camino, a las modas y los círculos, del vate que
ama a esa patria a la que no volverá. Confesiones, versos y oraciones como olas
de sombra cruzan este libro en pos de un mar de luz. León Felipe escribe como
siente: «soy el más torpe y el más ciego de todos los poetas españoles, pero creo
que me salva el poder responder de todos mis versos con mi sangre».
Imprescindible. Necesario. En tiempos inciertos, cuando el hombre más se busca
en el espejo divino, es hora de recuperar la voz esencial de León Felipe.
FUNDACIÓN BANCO SANTANDER, fiel a su compromiso
y al olvido, siendo casi imposible por diferentes causas
con la literatura y la difusión de la cultura, lleva años
encontrar actualmente su obra publicada.
recuperando a través de la Colección Obra Fundamental
Se trata de una colección pensada tanto para el lector
León Felipe
la obra de escritores y movimientos literarios en lengua
española nacidos entre finales del siglo
XIX
y principios
del XX.
CASTILLO INTERIOR
Cuadernos de Obra Fundamental continúa esta senda
de excelencia y da cabida a gran literatura olvidada en
pequeño formato, al recoger textos desconocidos o inencontrables de cualquier género que quedaron fuera de la
bibliografía de sus autores. Se trata de una colección de
lectura breve, dirigida a todos los lectores y en busca de la
singularidad literaria dejada en los márgenes aunque no
precisamente marginal.
GONZALO SANTONJA GÓMEZ-AGERO, catedrático de Literatura en la
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Premio Nacional de Ensayo, ha estudiado en profundidad la Edad de Plata de nuestras letras, en especial la narrativa social, las colecciones revolucionarias de novela corta, el mundo editorial
y la literatura de la guerra (in)civil y el exilio.
JAVIER EXPÓSITO LORENZO, escritor, poeta, periodista y responsable literario de
la Colección Obra Fundamental. Autor de Más alto que el aire. Breviario
para el alma (2013), donde profundiza en las emociones y el alma del ser
humano, y Pájaros en los bolsillos (2015), cuentos entre lo mágico y lo cotidiano.
Gastón Baquero
Fabulaciones en prosa
León Felipe
Castillo interior
Elena Fortún and Matilde Ras
León Felipe
Juan Larrea
El camino es nuestro
Castillo interior
Diario del Nuevo Mundo
This volume in the Fundamental Works Collection is
dedicated to the female writers Elena Fortún (Madrid,
1886-1952), a journalist and creator of the universal
character "Celia", and Matilde Ras (Tarragona, 18811969), a graphologist and author. The two writers,
contemporaries and friends, did much to revitalise
the literature and society of their day. The book
features unpublished journals by both women,
articles, stories, letters and news reports.
This Fundamental Works Notebook contains forgotten
speeches, articles and poems by León Felipe (Tábara,
Zamora, 1884 - Mexico City, 1968). The book reveals
letters written to prominent figures such as Camilo José
Cela, José Gorostiza and, above all, Juan Larrea, with
whom he corresponded for nearly forty years.
This Fundamental Works Notebook is devoted to
Juan Larrea (Bilbao, 1895 - Córdoba, Argentina,
1980), one of the greatest poets and essayists of the
Generation of '27.
The texts were selected from the Provincial Historical
Archive of Zamora and the Residencia de Estudiantes
in Madrid by Gonzalo Santonja, director of the Institute
of Language of Castile-León and professor at the
Complutense University of Madrid, and Javier Expósito,
in charge of literature at Fundación Banco Santander.
His diary, written during his exile in Mexico between
the spring of 1940 and August 1947, sheds new light
on Larrea's life.
The Hispanist Gabriele Morelli and Professor Juan
Manuel Díaz de Guereñu authored the introductory
surveys.
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foundation's website
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foundation's website
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al ámbito literario redescubriendo y recuperando, a través
Nuria Capdevila-Argüelles, professor at the
University of Exeter, and María Jesús Fraga, an expert
on Elena Fortún associated with the Complutense
University of Madrid, edited and annotated this
volume and wrote the foreword.
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León Felipe CASTILLO INTERIOR
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Publications
Exhibition Catalogues
Publications
Exhibition Catalogues
ALL T H E WORLD ’S A STAG E
ELENA
ALONSO
EL ESPACIO
ALREDEDOR
ALL THE WO RLD ’ S
A STAGE
WO R KS FR O M T H E G O E TZ CO L L E C T I O N
Simon Zabell
Dibujo y traducción
ENS AYO DE ÓSCAR AL ONSO MOLINA
RELAT O DE VI RGINIA WO O L F
All the World’s a Stage
Arte contemporáneo en Palacio
Simon Zabell
Elena Alonso
Works from the Goetz Collection
Pintura y escultura en las Colecciones Reales
Dibujo y traducción
El espacio alrededor
Trilingual Spanish-English-German catalogue of
the exhibition devoted to works from the Goetz
Collection, one of Germany's most important
contemporary art collections, organised by the
foundation and held at the Santander Art Gallery
from February to June 2015.
Catalogue of the exhibition organised by Patrimonio
Nacional and Fundación Banco Santander at the
Royal Palace in Madrid between October 2015 and
April 2016.
Catalogue of the ninth exhibition organised by
Fundación Banco Santander and the Museo ABC for
the Conexiones (Connections) programme.
Catalogue of the tenth Conexiones (Connections)
exhibition, curated by Óscar Alonso Molina and organised
by the foundation and the Museo ABC. On this occasion,
Elena Alonso (Madrid, 1981) sought inspiration in the 1765
print Parere su l'Architettura (Opinions on Architecture)
by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, from the Banco Santander
Collection, and La encerrada (Female Captive) by José Luis
Sánchez from the ABC Collection.
In addition to descriptions and reproductions of the
works featured in the show, the catalogue includes
an essay by the curator, Karsten Löckemann, about
the dialogue between the visual and performing arts
throughout art history.
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In addition to descriptions and images of the works
on display, it includes three essays by Cristina
Mur de Víu, Rafael Canogar and Javier Barón on
the important contemporary artworks in the royal
collections.
This volume explores the creative process used by
the artist Simon Zabell (Málaga, 1970) in both his
output and working method.
At Drawing and Translation, visitors were also able
to view covers of the magazine Blanco y Negro from
the ABC Collection and the oil painting El ámbito del
pensamiento (The Realm of Thought) by Guillermo
Pérez Villalta, now in the Banco Santander
Collection.
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As is customary in the Conexiones programme, the
catalogue is considered part of the show and the artist
therefore participated in its design and publication. The
catalogue also includes Virginia Woolf's short story "Solid
Objects", a clear reference to the importance of found
objects in Alonso's creative process.
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Publications
Exhibition Catalogues
Zurbarán
Publications
Economy
Moneda y Crédito
Antología [1942-1971]
Catalogue of the exhibition Zurbarán Master of Detail,
sponsored by the foundation and held at the Stiftung
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, between October
2015 and January 2016.
The volume includes descriptions and reproductions
of the exhibited works as well as three essays on the
life and creative process of Zurbarán, written by the
experts Odile Delenda, Benito Navarrete Prieto and
Alfonso Rodríguez G. de Ceballos.
Special issue of the magazine Currency and Credit,
featuring a selection of 16 articles by various authors
published between 1942 and 1971.
Contributors include economists of the stature
of Robert A. Mundell, Gustav Cassel, Bertil Ohlin
and Ramón Trías Fargas and the philosopher Julián
Marías.
The chosen articles are fundamental for
understanding the history of the Spanish economy
during that period. Some of the topics discussed,
such as the plan to create a single European currency
and the common market, are still highly relevant
after all these years.
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Publications
Environment
Manual de Desarrollo
Sostenible No. 16
Cuaderno de Sostenibilidad y
Patrimonio Natural No. 23
La apicultura como restauradora
de ecosistemas de montaña
La custodia del territorio
Handbook on sustainable development dedicated
to the innovation pollination project launched by
Fundación Banco Santander and the Fund for the
Protection of Wild Animals (FAPAS).
This publication reviews the history of land trusts,
which originated in the United States in the 19th
century. It also contains a detailed description of
their introduction and spread in Spain, ideas about
how to promote this model, and a list of successful
land trusts managed by different conservationist
groups in our country.
This initiative in the mountains of Cantabria
emphasises the importance of restoring mountain
ecosystems and the value of apiculture as a
traditional activity with important ecological
repercussions.
Free download from the foundation's website
Free download from the foundation's website
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Social
Outreach
Santander Ayuda
In 2015 Fundación Banco Santander
introduced Santander Ayuda, a new
programme to support non-profit
institutions that carry out social welfare
projects of general interest.
These initiatives must have a local scope,
seeking the benefit of the immediate
community.
The programme will distribute 400,000
euros in grant monies among a total of
eighty projects. Each beneficiary will receive
a maximum of 5,000 euros, which can be
combined with other sources of funding.
Applicants will be evaluated based on the
social value of the projects, the innovative
methods they propose, and their impact on
the immediate community.
Partnerships
Hispania
Nostra
Fundación
Princesa de Asturias
Real Instituto
Elcano
Each year, Fundación Banco Santander and the
association Hispania Nostra organise the Hispania
Nostra Awards to encourage the dissemination of
best practices in the conservation of Spain's cultural
and natural heritage.
Fundación Banco Santander supports Fundación
Princesa de Asturias, an institution which annually
rewards individuals and institutions whose efforts
promote the scientific, cultural and humanistic values
that constitute our shared world heritage.
The Land or Landscape Intervention Prize went to
the Patrimonio y Territorio programme in the Valley of
Nansa y Peñarrubia (Cantabria). In 2015, the project
for the recovery of the medieval irrigation channel
of Barjas (Cáñar, Granada) also received a special
mention.
In 2015, the recipients of these prestigious awards
were as follows: Francis Ford Coppola (Arts), Esther
Duflo (Social Sciences), Emilio Lledó (Communication
and Humanities), Emmanuelle Charpentier and
Jennifer Doudna (Technical and Scientific Research),
Pau and Marc Gasol (Sport), Leonardo Padura
(Literature), Wikipedia (International Cooperation)
and the Order of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John
of God (Concord).
Fundación Banco Santander supports the Real
Instituto Elcano, a research centre that conducts
strategic international studies from a Spanish,
European and global perspective. Its primary
mission is to be a forum of dialogue, debate and
analysis on current affairs, especially those that
affect Spain's international relations.
The Prize for the Conservation of Heritage as a
Factor of Socio-Economic Development went to the
team that restored the old Monastery of San Juan
Bautista in Corias (Cangas del Narcea, Asturias) for
use as a tourist parador or historic hotel.
Finally, the pilot project PHDuero for promoting and
publicising the heritage value of the Duero River
Basin via mobile platforms received the Cultural
Heritage Signage Prize.
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The awards ceremony, hosted by the King and Queen
of Spain, was held on 23 October at the Teatro
Campoamor in Oviedo.
The institute is active on many fronts, organising
lectures, conferences and seminars, publishing
reports and working papers, and participating
in various international projects and networks.
Some of its most prestigious initiatives are the
Observatory on Spain's Image Abroad, a platform
designed to carefully monitor how Spain is
perceived in the world; the Real Instituto Elcano
Barometer, an opinion poll conducted three
times a year; and the Ibero-American Network of
International Studies, comprising the top institutes
in Spain, Portugal and Latin America.
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Name Index
A
Aguinagalde, Francisco
de Borja
(The Basque Country,
Land of Hidalgos and
Nobles)
Alaimo, Nicola
(Santander
International Festival)
Albelo, Celso
(Santander
International Festival)
Alonso Molina, Óscar
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art;
Elena Alonso)
Alonso, Elena
(Conexiones)
Amitai, Leon
(ARCOmadrid
Collectors' Forum)
Arming, Christian
(Orfeón Donostiarra)
Arrieta, Jon
(The Basque Country,
Land of Hidalgos and
Nobles)
Artola Gallego, Miguel
(The Basque Country,
Land of Hidalgos and
Nobles)
B
Barón, Javier
(Contemporary Art in
the Palace)
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Barriuso, Jorge
(Innovation, a Bridge
between Science and
Society)
Capdevila-Argüelles,
Nuria
(Elena Fortún y Matilde
Ras)
Bashkirov, Dimitri
(Fundación Albéniz)
Cassel, Gustav
(Currency and Credit)
Blasco, María
(Innovation, a Bridge
between Science and
Society)
Charpentier,
Emmanuelle
(Princesa de Asturias
Awards)
Boer den, Harm
(Biographies and
History)
Ciria, José Manuel
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Bonet, Juan Manuel
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Colom, Josep María
(Fundación Albéniz)
Brodsky, Estrellita
(ARCOmadrid
Collectors' Forum)
C
Caballero Bonald, José
Manuel
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Cabrillo, Francisco
(La Granda)
Calvo Serraller,
Francisco
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Calvo, Blanca
(Family Concerts)
Canogar, Rafael
(Contemporary Art in
the Palace)
Constantini, Eduardo
(ARCOmadrid
Collectors' Forum)
Cruz, Juan
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Cuervo, Álvaro
(La Granda)
D
Delenda, Odile
(Zurbarán)
Delgado Mayordomo,
Carlos
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Díaz de Guereñu, Juan
Manuel
(Juan Larrea)
Diego de, Estrella
(ARCOmadrid
Collectors'
Forum; Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Díez, José Luis
(Portraits in the Royal
Collections)
Doudna, Jennifer
(Princesa de Asturias
Awards)
Duato, Nacho
(Teatro Real de Madrid)
Duflo, Esther
(Princesa de Asturias
Awards)
Franco, Carlos
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Grandes, Almudena
(Elena Fortún y Matilde
Ras)
López, Antonio
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Fuentes, Juan Francisco
(Biographies and
History)
Guibert, Álvaro
(Family Concerts)
Luca de Tena, Consuelo
(Discover the Banco
Santander Collection)
G
Gabilondo, Ángel
(Innovation, a Bridge
between Science and
Society)
Durán Puertas, Isabel
(Artists and Collectors)
García de la Concha,
Víctor
(León Felipe)
E
García Delgado, José
Luis
(La Granda)
Eguiazarova, Galina
(Fundación Albéniz)
Ellis, John
(Science and Society)
F
Fajardo, José Luis
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Fernández Arufe, María
Josefa
(La Granda)
Ford Coppola, Francis
(Princesa de Asturias
Awards)
Fraga, María Jesús
(Elena Fortún y Matilde
Ras)
Gasol, Marc
(Princesa de Asturias
Awards)
Gasol, Pau
(Princesa de Asturias
Awards)
Giménez, Álvaro
(Science and Society)
Gómez, Carlos
(Centro de Arte La
Panera)
González, María
Mercedes
(ARCOmadrid
Collectors' Forum)
Gordillo, Luis
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Gothóni, Ralf
(Fundación Albéniz)
Gutiérrez, José Darío
(ARCOmadrid
Collectors' Forum)
H
Huerta, Maxim
(Elena Fortún
y Matilde Ras)
I
Iglesias, Carmen
(Biographies and
History)
Imizcoz, José María
(The Basque Country,
Land of Hidalgos and
Nobles)
L
Lledó, Emilio
(Princesa de Asturias
Awards)
Löckemann, Karsten
(Goetz Collection)
Londoño, Rafael
(ARCOmadrid
Collectors' Forum)
López Hernández, Julio
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
M
Macarrón, Alejandro
(La Granda)
Marías, Julián
(Currency and Credit)
Martínez Montiel, Luis
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Martín-Vide, Javier
(Science and Society)
N
Navarrete Prieto,
Benito
(Zurbarán)
O
Ohlin, Bertil
(Currency and Credit)
P
Padura, Leo
(Princesa de Asturias
Awards)
Pérez Floristán, Juan
(Fundación Albéniz)
Mehta, Zubin
(Orfeón Donostiarra)
Pérez Mejía, Ángela
María
(ARCOmadrid
Collectors' Forum)
Mishaan, Solita
(ARCOmadrid
Collectors' Forum)
Pérez, Jorge
(ARCOmadrid
Collectors' Forum)
Mora, Guillermo
(Centro de Arte La
Panera)
Pérez, Joseph
(Biographies and
History)
Morelli, Gabriele
(Juan Larrea)
Pérez-Villalta,
Guillermo
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Moreno, María José
(Santander
International Festival)
Mundell, Robert A.
(Currency and Credit)
Mur de Víu, Cristina
(Contemporary Art in
the Palace)
Pizzolato, Marianna
(Santander
International Festival)
Ponce de León, Carolina
(ARCOmadrid
Collectors' Forum)
Punset, Eduardo
(Science and Society)
R
Reguera, Alberto
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Rodríguez G. de
Ceballos, Alfonso
(Zurbarán)
Romero, Yolanda
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art
Rubiera, Fernando
(La Granda)
Torroba, Laura
(Centro de Arte La
Panera)
Trías Fargas, Ramón
(Currency and Credit)
U
Uslé, Juan
(Artist's Notebook)
V
S
Santonja, Gonzalo
(León Felipe)
Sanz Ayán, Carmen
(Biographies and
History)
Saraste, Jukka-Pekka
(Orfeón Donostiarra)
Schwartz, Fernando
(León Felipe)
Sevilla, Soledad
(Speaking of
Contemporary Art)
Simón, Fernando
(Science and Society)
Sokhiev, Tugan
(Orfeón Donostiarra)
T
Torrero, Antonio
(La Granda)
Temirkanov, Yuri
(Orfeón Donostiarra)
Valdeón, Rosa
(León Felipe)
Velarde, Juan
(La Granda)
Villaverde, José
(La Granda)
W
Wismer, Beat
(Zurbarán. Master of
Detail)
Z
Zabell, Simon
(Conexiones)
Zedda, Alberto
(Festival Internacional
de Santander; Orfeón
Donostiarra)
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pp.12-13: © Matthias Weischer, courtesy Galerie EIGEN+ART Leipzig/
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pp. 14-15: Eduardo Chillida, Elogio de la luz XVI
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pp. 16, 35: Cristina Iglesias, Sin título
© Cristina Iglesias, VEGAP, Madrid, 2016
p. 18:
Guillermo Pérez Villalta, El ámbito del pensamiento
© Guillermo Pérez Villalta, VEGAP, Madrid, 2016
p. 19: Ignacio Zuloaga, Las tres primas
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p. 25:
© Mirarte
p. 30:
© Simon Zabell, VEGAP, Madrid, 2016
pp. 31-31:
© Jesús Manuel García Jiménez
pp. 32-33: © Patrimonio Nacional
p. 34:
© Geerd Jacobs
P. 36:
© Antonio Fafian
p. 37:
© Archivo Fundació Palma Espai d’Art
pp. 38-39: © Juan Uslé, VEGAP, Madrid, 2016
pp. 42-43: © Pedro Albornoz/Fundación Albéniz
p. 45:
© Javier del Real
p. 46:
© Antoni Bofill
p. 47:
© Festival Internacional de Santander
p. 48: © Antoni Bofill
p. 49: © Íñigo Ibáñez/Quincena Musical
p. 52: © Museo Reina Sofía
p. 53: © Eva Carasol/2015 MACBA
p. 55: © Guillermo Mora, VEGAP, Madrid, 2016
© Jordi V. Pou
p. 56: © Silvia Sainz Rabanal
p. 57: © Alejandría Cinque
p. 79: © Casa del Lector
p. 80: © NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (STScl/ESA),
and the HST Orion Treasury Project Team
© Amparo Garrido
Cover:
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Photo by A. Burger
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