Juan Manuel Bonet. (Paris, 1953) is a writer and a critic of art and literature and has been curator of exhibitions. Director of the Instituto Cervantes since January 27, 2017, he has directed the Instituto Cervantes in Paris between 2012 and 2017 and has previously been director of the IVAM (Valencian Institute of Modern Art) and the National Museum of Art Reina Sofía (Madrid). President of the Rafael Cansinos Assens Archive Foundation and the Vicente Huidobro Foundation International Committee.
Author of several books of poems recently grouped in Via Labirinto; Of the diary The round of the days; Of the reference work Dictionary of the avant-gardes in Spain (1907-1936), completed by Avant-garde Printed in Spain (1912-1936); Of a book about Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Ramón in his Tower; Of critical editions of, among others, Max Aub, Salvador Dalí, José María Eguren and Rafael Lasso de la Vega; And of monographs on, among others, Juan Gris, Ramón Gaya, Gerardo Rueda, Martín Chirino, Pelayo Ortega and Miguel Galano.
Curator of exhibitions, between them ‘1980’, ‘Madrid D.F.’, ‘Imprenta y poesía’, ‘Pintura contemporánea española’, ‘Espagne Arte abstracto 1950-1965’, ‘El surrealismo entre Viejo y Nuevo Mundo’, ‘El objeto surrealista en España’, ‘Ciudad de ceniza: El surrealismo en la posguerra española’, ‘Los años pintados’, ‘Muelle de Levante’, ‘El poeta como artista’, ‘El ultraísmo y las artes plásticas’, ‘De Picasso a Dalí: Las raíces de la vanguardia española’, ‘Literatura argentina de vanguardia’, ‘España años 50’, ‘El colegio Estudio: Una aventura pedagógica en la España de la posguerra’, ‘El efecto iceberg: Colección Museo ABC’, ‘Un mundo construido: Polonia 1918-1939’ and ‘Una mirada española: Manolo Escobar coleccionista’.
Curator of retrospectives de, between them, Mariano Fortuny y 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 or Dis Berlin.
To add he has been curator of other expositions about photographers (José Manuel Ballester, Javier Campano, Francesc Catalá Roca, Jesse Fernández, Bernard Plossu, Leopoldo Pomés, Josef Sudek), writters (Rafael Alberti, Max Aub, Julio Cortázar, Alfredo Gangotena, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Tadeusz Peiper, Francisco Vighi), politicians (Juan Negrín) and composers (Morton Feldman, Ricardo Viñes).
Author of several books of poems recently grouped in Via Labirinto; Of the diary The round of the days; Of the reference work Dictionary of the avant-gardes in Spain (1907-1936), completed by Avant-garde Printed in Spain (1912-1936); Of a book about Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Ramón in his Tower; Of critical editions of, among others, Max Aub, Salvador Dalí, José María Eguren and Rafael Lasso de la Vega; And of monographs on, among others, Juan Gris, Ramón Gaya, Gerardo Rueda, Martín Chirino, Pelayo Ortega and Miguel Galano.
Curator of exhibitions, between them ‘1980’, ‘Madrid D.F.’, ‘Imprenta y poesía’, ‘Pintura contemporánea española’, ‘Espagne Arte abstracto 1950-1965’, ‘El surrealismo entre Viejo y Nuevo Mundo’, ‘El objeto surrealista en España’, ‘Ciudad de ceniza: El surrealismo en la posguerra española’, ‘Los años pintados’, ‘Muelle de Levante’, ‘El poeta como artista’, ‘El ultraísmo y las artes plásticas’, ‘De Picasso a Dalí: Las raíces de la vanguardia española’, ‘Literatura argentina de vanguardia’, ‘España años 50’, ‘El colegio Estudio: Una aventura pedagógica en la España de la posguerra’, ‘El efecto iceberg: Colección Museo ABC’, ‘Un mundo construido: Polonia 1918-1939’ and ‘Una mirada española: Manolo Escobar coleccionista’.
Curator of retrospectives de, between them, Mariano Fortuny y 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 or Dis Berlin.
To add he has been curator of other expositions about photographers (José Manuel Ballester, Javier Campano, Francesc Catalá Roca, Jesse Fernández, Bernard Plossu, Leopoldo Pomés, Josef Sudek), writters (Rafael Alberti, Max Aub, Julio Cortázar, Alfredo Gangotena, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Tadeusz Peiper, Francisco Vighi), politicians (Juan Negrín) and composers (Morton Feldman, Ricardo Viñes).
