ABC

Commemorative catalogue published on the occasion of the "ABC. El alfabeto del Museo de Bilbao" exhibition and the 110th anniversary of the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum.

The exhibition includes an unprecedented proposal in collaboration with the literary curation of writer Kirmen Uribe and the museum’s refurbished facilities with a new way of showing art to the public.

The traditional way of ordering work is replaced by an “alphabetical” order that includes 27 letters plus the digraph “ll” of the Spanish alphabet and the Basque digraphs “ts”, “tx” and “tz”. In total, 31 signs serve as inspiration for Kirmen Uribe to find in each one a “conductive” term in Basque, Spanish, English or French. Lastly, this relationship has been used to select the exhibition sample from the museum’s collection.