Image: Carmen Thyssen Museum, Málaga
The Carmen Thyssen Museum in Málaga has marked the opening of the Feria de Málaga with a social media post highlighting how its collection reflects popular festivals through painting. The museum said that, as the city’s annual fair begins, it is also celebrating “las fiestas populares” through art.
In the post, the museum pointed to ‘La Feria de Sevilla’ by Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer as one example from its collection. The work, the museum noted, evokes the Feria de Abril and is presented as part of a broader visual record of festive life in southern Spain.
The museum’s message frames the fair not as a one-off civic event but as a subject that has long attracted artists interested in public celebration, costume and social ritual. By singling out Domínguez Bécquer’s painting, the institution drew attention to the way festival scenes can sit within a museum collection alongside other depictions of everyday and seasonal life.
No separate exhibition, installation or programme was announced in the post. The museum’s reference was made in connection with the start of Feria de Málaga, which it described simply as beginning “hoy” — today — in Málaga.
The Carmen Thyssen Museum is based in Málaga and presents art from its collection through exhibitions and public programming. In this case, its social media post used the city’s fair as a prompt to revisit one of the collection’s festival scenes, linking local celebration with an existing painting in the museum’s holdings.
The post does not give a display date, loan, or installation detail for ‘La Feria de Sevilla’, and it does not list any accompanying event beyond the fair itself. It instead offers a brief reminder that scenes of popular festivities already form part of the museum’s collection in Málaga.
