Image: Carmen Thyssen Museum, M?laga
Museo Carmen Thyssen Málaga is highlighting 'Manuel Franquelo. El lenguaje de las cosas' in a video feature that frames the exhibition through the artist’s family and the museum’s own presentation of the show. According to the museum’s materials, the exhibition is on view at Espacio ArteSonado from 8 July until 12 October 2026.
The online post states that the exhibition has the “generous collaboration” of Franquelo’s family, identified as the main lenders to the project. In the accompanying video, his son, Manuel Franquelo Giner, and his widow, Elena Giner Abarca, discuss the keys to his work and to the exhibition itself. The museum describes Franquelo’s practice as one marked by technical experimentation and philosophical reflection.
The presentation forms part of the museum’s multimedia output and sits alongside other summer announcements on its site, but the exhibition note itself is focused on Franquelo’s work and its display at Espacio ArteSonado. The museum’s published text does not provide a detailed checklist of individual works in the show, but it does make clear that the exhibition is intended to offer insight into both technique and ideas through the family’s commentary.
A separate museum blog post offers additional context for the exhibition’s framing. There, the museum refers to Manuel Franquelo as a Málaga-born artist, with the dates 1953–2024, and notes that the display includes around twenty works on paper, specifically engravings and drawings. The post says the works create a quiet atmosphere in which time seems suspended, moving between views of the artist’s studio and scenes from Madrid, the city where he settled.
That blog text also links the exhibition to broader reflections on transience and contemplation, describing the show as an invitation to slow down during the summer months. While that language appears in the museum’s own promotional writing, the confirmed exhibition details remain the same: 'Manuel Franquelo. El lenguaje de las cosas' is presented at Espacio ArteSonado and remains open until 12 October.
The museum’s video page on 8 July 2026 repeats the same essentials, crediting the family’s collaboration and directing visitors to the exhibition in Espacio ArteSonado. The institution’s website situates the project within a wider programme of summer activities and digital initiatives, but the Franquelo exhibition stands out as a dedicated look at an artist whose work the museum characterises as technically inventive and philosophically engaged.
