The Museum inaugurates the exhibition that will remain during the months of July to September in the temporary exhibitions room of the MACA, composed of a selection of 18 works, belonging to the private collection Mariano Yera.

The YERA Collection:

The origin of the collection dates back to 1999, when Mariano Yera together with Javier Lacruz, began collecting Spanish painting from the second half of the 20th century under the name of De Pictura Collection, becoming known, from 2013 onwards, as the Mariano Yera Collection.

The Collection follows the evolution of art history in Spain as the main pictorial currents and their most outstanding authors are represented. It is composed of more than one hundred and forty works of great quality, all of them expressive of the particular perspective of each of the sixty-three artists that make up this singular testimony of Spanish pictorial creation from the 1950s of the last century until the end of the twentieth century, a period rich in artistic proposals of enormous relevance. As Valeriano Bozal rightly points out in History of Painting and Sculpture of the 20th Century in Spain II. 1940-2010 "...these were years in which some of the most important works of our modern art were created".

It brings together artists and movements such as the Pórtico groups (Lagunas, Aguayo and Laguardia) and Dau al Set (Tàpies, Cuixart or Ponç), pioneers of post-war plastic renewal; from the El Paso group (Saura, Millares, Feito, Rivera or Viola), from Equipo 57 or from the Chronicle of Reality (Equipo Crónica, Equipo Realidad or Genovés). Likewise, the Collection also includes works by members of the Trama group (Broto, Grau or Tena) and by artists of the caliber of Gordillo, Alcolea, Pérez Villalta, Cobo, Barceló, Sicilia or Campano among others, to which are added younger creators. Many of the works in the collection, some of which are now on display at the MACA, have been part of important collective exhibitions.

During the 32nd edition of the ARCO International Contemporary Art Fair in Madrid, Mariano Yera was awarded the Prize A for Private Collecting. The family's intention is for the Collection to contribute to the knowledge of the work and thought of these artists, a reflection and testimony of a time when Spain barely had a presence in the international artistic panorama.