The exhibition brings together the new entries to the Morera collections during the first semester of 2022: photographs by Palmira Puig, works made by two hands by Ferran Garcia Sevilla and Carles Hac Mor and the iconic poster of the May Festival of 1912 prepared by Xavier Gosé.

With the aim of expanding the collections from the various areas of visual culture, the Jaume Morera Art Museum continues with the policy of new acquisitions through the different established mechanisms: purchase, transfer and donation. The Museum’s will is to grow constantly and rationally to build a public collection of modern and contemporary art at the service of citizens and the territory.

The sample was built from:

• The transfer of nine works by Palmira Puig (Tàrrega, 1912 – Barcelona, ​​1978), by the Diputació de Lleida, to the collections of the same Museum and the Museu Comarcal de l’Urgell-Tàrrega. Some photographs that vindicate the trajectory and value of the work of the Targarina artist within the framework of modern photography.

• The donation of a work by the artist Ferran Garcia Sevilla (Palma, 1949), one of the benchmarks of the return of painting from the eighties to our country, to the Museum’s collection. Garcia Sevilla has given six works created in 1979 together with the poet Carles Hac Mor (Lleida, 1940 – Sant Feliu de Guíxols, 2016).

• The poster for the 1912 Festa Major de Lleida , drawn up by the illustrator Xavier Gosé, is the latest addition to the Museum’s collection. It is a work that takes us to one of the most recognized and important festivals in the history of the city, during which an exhibition was held with some of the great names of Lleida’s art, such as Jaume Morera, Baldomer Gili Roig , Antoni Samarra, Manuel Villegas and Xavier Gosé himself, among others. An exhibition that would end up becoming the seed of the future Jaume Morera Art Museum, which was created in 1915. And also a four-hand concert by two of the biggest stars of the European musical firmament at the moment, Lleida natives Ricard Viñes and Enric Granados, among other activities.