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A selection of the 37 most representative works from the Museum's latest donations and acquisitions is exhibited in the first edition of theperiodic sample "New additions to the Collection". This initiative represents a major effort in the procurement of works and sample an excerpt of the nearly 5,000 new pieces that are added to the existing holdings since the Museum opened in January 2015.

The opening was attended by about 70 people, including some donors such as the Huarte-Vidal family, the Mexican family Gómez Larasgoiti, artists such as photographers Luis González Palma, who opens tomorrow a exhibition in the Museum, Miguel Bergasa and Carlos Cánovas, representatives of the Government of Navarra as Susana Irigaray, director of the museum service, Pilar Cabodevilla, senior museum technician, and Javier Manzanos, plastic arts technician of the City of Pamplona.

"For the Museum and personally for me, as President of board of trustees, the creation of this exhibition is a very special satisfaction because of the origin of these pieces, 95% of which are the result of donations and bequests. The University of Navarra Museum was born as a result of two large donations and to see that we continue to receive important works thanks to the generosity of many people is very positive," said Ángel Gómez Montoro, President of board of trustees of the Museum's Promoters.

Building bridges, "the heart of the Museum".

Since the donation of the photographer José Ortiz Echagüe's bequest in 1981, it was decided to broaden the context of this author' s work through an artistic collection whose chronology began with the first photographic manifestations and reached the present day. The project and the enlargement works were aimed at achieving an international Collection of reference letter . After almost 20 yearsof a meticulous work where it was possible to acquire photographs together with donations of works by the artists themselves or private individuals such as María Josefa Huarte, the best collection of photography that exists in Spain was formed. This collection has received all subject of awards both nationally and internationally.

The most recent addition comes from the Mexican Gómez Laresgoiti family, which has donated three canvases by Joaquín Sorolla, Marc Chagall and Rufino Tamayo, and a sculpture by Eduardo Chillida. Along with these pieces, there are also the legacies of three important photographers of the 20th century. The award National Photography Rafael Sanz Lobato donated to the Museum his entire collection, consisting of about 3,500 photographs and nearly 70,000 negatives. The outstanding humanist photographer continues the documentary tradition of the already existing collections of Ortiz Echagüe and Juan Dolcet, offering us a complete panorama of the photography of the second half of the 20th century in Spain. It is an important addition to our Collection," explained Ángel Gómez Montoro, "both in terms of the quality of his works and the amount," he added.

Along with this author, works have also been bequeathed, through his heirs, by very important artists such as the avant-garde José Antonio Aizpurúa, one of the few representatives of the avant-garde in the Basque Country. The donation of his file consists of 137 originals, two sketchbooks of the artist and his collection of negatives. Of great importance is also the incorporation of 105 photographic prints by Martín Chambi, the most emblematic Peruvian documentary filmmaker of the 20th century. His incorporation to the collection means the increasing presence of Latin American art and, according to Valentín Vallhonrat of the Museum's Artistic Direction committee , "the opening of another field of work in the development of photography".

Some of the works produced for the artistic creation program Tender Bridges have also been incorporated into the Collection , such as those by Pierre Gonnord and Manolo Laguillo, a photograph by Carlos Irijalba, donated by the Padula - Blohm Foundation, and a selection of works donated by Javier Vallhonrat and Cristina de Middel, recently exhibited at the Museum and which increase the 21st Century Collection. "These artistic productions that are developed thanks to small residencies for the study and research of photography are the heart of the Museum. This conference room is an example of the funds with which contemporary artists are nourished to produce new pieces," said Valentín Vallhonrat.

In addition to Aizpurúa, the Museum' s avant-garde collection "with which it was necessary to establish a body of work"has been reinforced with the donation of a photograph by Antoni Arissa and the deposit from a private collector of three works by Josep conference room.

Among the group acquisitions made directly by the Museum are a daguerreotype and six salt papers by Alphonse De Launay, an albumen paper by Charles Clifford, which add to fill in the extensive holdings of these authors, as well as a 20th century photograph by Inge Morath.

Although it will not be present in the first edition of this sample, it is important to highlight the donations of the recently deceased Pere Formiguera and Elena Asins and the bequest of Josep Brangulí, given by Fundación Telefónica and to whom the Museum will dedicate a exhibition from November 2016. The work of this photojournalist committed to the reality of the Barcelona of the first half of the twentieth century, offers another side of the coin to that avant-garde photography.