Juan Manuel Bonet
Juan Manuel Bonet (Paris, 1953) is an art critic, museologist and writer who has curated exhibitions in the fields of painting, literature, and music. Former director of Instituto Cervantes (2017-2018) and Instituto Cervantes of Paris (2012-2017), he was director of the Modern Art Institute of Valencia (1995-2000) and of the Reina Sofia Museum (2000-2005). Chairman of the Rafael Cansinos Assens Archive Foundation and of the International Committee of the Vicente Huidobro Foundation.
He is author of several books of poems, recently collected in Via Labirinto, of the diary La ronda de los días, and of reference works such as Diccionario de vanguardia en España: 1907-1936, or Impresos de vanguardia en España: 1912-1936; and critical editions of the works of Rafael Alberti, Max Aub, Salvador Dalí, José María Eguren and Rafael Lasso de la Vega; as well as monographs about Juan Gris, Ramón Gaya, Gerardo Rueda, Martín Chirino, Pelayo Ortega and Miguel Galano, among others.
His work as a curator includes retrospectives exhibitions of artists, such as Mariano Fortuny and Madrazo, Pablo Picasso, Juan Gris, Giorgio Morandi, Tarsila do Amaral, Henri Michaux, Henryk Stazewski, Francisco Bores, Juan Manuel Díaz-Caneja, Ramón Gaya, Eugenio Fernández Granell, Esteban Vicente, José Guerrero, Manolo Millares, Lucio Muñoz, Manuel H. Mompó, Julio López Hernández, Alex Katz and Dis Berlin; photographers, such as José Manuel Ballester, Javier Campano, Francesc Catalá Roca, Jesse Fernández, Bernard Plossu, Leopoldo Pomés, Josef Sudek; writers such as Max Aub, Julio Cortázar, Alfredo Gangotena, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Tadeusz Peiper, Francisco Vighi; politicians, such as Juan Negrín; and composers, such as Morton Feldman and Ricardo Viñes.
