Corporación Masaveu and the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson have teamed up for the second year in a row to organise the exhibition that has been presented every year since 1998 at the corporation’s stand at the Asturias International Trade Fair (Luis Adaro Trade Fair Park, Gijón) to showcase some of the main milestones in the Asturian group’s diverse economic and business activity alongside selected works from its collections.

At this new edition of the trade fair, the exhibition focuses on the presence of Masaveu in the United States, specifically through its participation in the Texan real estate, energy and industrial sectors, highlighting the group’s determination to reinforce its international presence in general and in this country in particular, where it commenced operations at the beginning of the 2000s. In terms of real estate, Corporación Masaveu owns two office buildings: the BBVA Compass Tower (Houston) and the KMPG Building (Dallas), acquired in 2013 and 2019, respectively. In the renewable energies field, in 2020 Corporación Masaveu joined other investors to purchase the Rattlesnake Wind Farm in Brady. And in the industrial sector, in 2018 Masaveu Industria teamed up with Texan Cement to develop a cement dispatch facility at the Port of Brownsville. All of these group assets are featured in the exhibition through a variety of visual devices.

To complement this discourse, the exhibition includes a significant sample of American art in the Masaveu collections through ten original works by eight artists belonging to the Masaveu Collection, the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Collection and the Fernando Masaveu Collection. Alexander Calder, Joan Mitchell, Andy Warhol, Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner, Joel Shapiro, Dan Graham and Keith Haring are the selected authors. All of them are major international artists and indisputable protagonists of some of the main art movements of the twentieth century. The works on display include Andy Warhol’s iconic Campbell’s Soup Box (Chicken Noodle), made in 1985 and owned by the Masaveu Collection, and two recent acquisitions for the Fundación María Cristina Masaveu Peterson Collection: Crag, from 1974, one of Alexander Calder’s signature standing mobiles, and the large-format canvas Untitled, painted by Keith Haring in 1984 with his unmistakable plastic language.