The Pepe Espaliú Art Center It is located in the historic center of Córdoba in a building built in the 18th century and recently rehabilitated where more than 40 works by the multifaceted artist are exhibited brought together by the municipal company Vimcorsa and the city council. The creation of the center was promoted by Espaliú's father. that after his death he donated He took his son's personal file and sold it. 32 works made by him. Currently, in addition to the permanent exhibition, prestigious temporary exhibitions are being held, such as the last one held in June 2021 dedicated to the life of the first mayor of Córdoba democracy, Julio Anguita.
The permanent exhibition of the work of Pepe Espaliú It is distributed over two floors around a traditional Cordoban porticoed patio. In it we can see works representative of his entire professional career between 1975 and 1993, the year in which he died. due to AIDS at only 38 years old. This artist#39s creations dealt with practically all media: drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, video art, writing and performances, the latter being fundamental in the history of Spanish art. since he was one of the first authors in our country to put it into practice in the 1980s.
The work of Pepe Espaliú At first it had a great impact in avant-garde cities such as New York, Amsterdam and Paris, where they knew how to value his tireless studies on topics such as identity and in his last years, the disease, and which laid the foundations for future reflections made by other artists on these issues. A year after his death, in 1994, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía gave him the first of his numerous and well-deserved tributes in Spain.
Tuesday to Friday from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Saturdays 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and from 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. and Sundays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Other nearby places of interest are the Archaeological Museum, the House of Las Cabezas and the House of Guadameci Umayyad.