Painter Antonio Rodríguez Luna Museum

Located in the old San Jacinto hermitage, it is a single nave baroque building dated 1778; inside stands out its crafted dome decorated with polychrome plasterwork. The adaptation project was carried out by the architect Daniel Rodríguez, son of the painter. On October 9, 1982, this monographic museum space was opened with 15 works made during his last artistic period, most of them previously exhibited at the Juana Mordó Gallery (1976); it is the first time that Luna showed his work in Spain after the war.

Antonio Rodríguez Luna (1910-1982), was one of the pioneers of Surrealism in Spain whose work showed a fruitful evolution and importance in the thirties towards a critical realism as a response to his social and political commitment. In Mexico, figurative art and still lifes, with straight lines and shape synthesis, still keep their critical values with the representation of burlesque scenes, then leading towards an abstraction of expressive shapes with composition elements that bring us closer to reality through specific figurative references. These form our pictorial collection.