STRUCTURE AND CONTENTS OF THE EXHIBITION

Bores ultraist
The years between 1921 and 1925 were a period of intense creative activity for Francisco Bores. He raved about Ultraism and worked with a number of journals that followed this movement, and with other cultural publications, such as Alfar, Horizonte, Plural, Proa, Sí, Tobogán, and Revista de Occidente. His wood engravings were strongly influenced by expressionism and by themes deeply rooted in the dark vision of "lo español". In the first section of the exhibition there are a large number of drawings and original etchings, such as the emblems that he made as colophons for the Revista de Occidente, and the woodblocks of some of them, as well as the publications in which his artwork appeared.

Bores and the Generation of ‘27
The intense relationship that Bores maintained with the main figures of the Generation of ‘27 during those years is also revealed in the exhibition with a series of Bores’ drawings in which he portrayed his friends: poets, writers, painters and publishers, such as Antonio Espina, Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Juan Chabás, José Bergamín, Antonio Marichal, José Moreno Villa, Guillermo de Torre, Adolfo Salazar, and Federico García Lorca. Most of these drawings are exhibited to the public for the first time.

Coffee house Drawings
Bores was a regular participant in the tertulias that were held regularly in the coffee houses of Madrid, the centers of the artistic and literary life of those years. A tireless artist, Bores made numerous drawings and sketches in these places, many of them are still unpublished and are exhibited in this section of the show for the first time. Calcografía Nacional (the National Engraving House) has printed for this exhibition two engravings from Bores’ woodblocks.

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