The Oral History of Cuenca’s Abstract Art Museum: “the Most Beautiful in the World”

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For Cuenca there is a before and after the arrival of Filipino patron and artist Fernando Zóbel and the group of creators with whom in 1966 he created the Museum of Abstract Spanish Art in one of the beautiful Hanging Houses that look at the gorge of the Huécar River. In that Spain of the dictatorship there were still few museums and none dedicated to contemporary art. The creator did the miracle with his generosity and with the help of his grea…