Permanent collections

Jordi ALCARAZ · Kunihiro AMANO · Koyu AOYAMA · Mario de AYGUAVIVES · Martín BAER · Erwin BECHTOLD · Erwin BRONER · Vicent CALBET · María CATALÁN · CORNEILLE · Pierre DMITRENKO · Isabel ECHARRI · Frank “EL PUNTO” · Susumu ENDO · EVRU / ZUSH · Will FABER · Barry FLANAGAN · Marcel FLORIS · Masahiro FUKUDA ·Shito FUKUSAWA · Amadeo GABINO · Francisco de GOYA · Luis GORDILLO · Lourdes GRIVÉ · Raoul HAUSMANN · Gilbert HERREYNS · Hans HINTERREITER · Elmyr de HORY · Antoni HORMIGO · Yosuke IMAE · Don KUNKEL · Hans LAABS · Julio LE PARC · Acisclo MANZANO · Pavel MAKOV · Vera Lucía MARAO SANDRONI · Conrad MARCA-RELLI · Antoni MARÍ RIBAS “PORTMANY” · Akira MATSUMOTO · Katja MEIROWSKY · Eduard MICUS · Cristina de MIDDEL · Junichi MORIMOTO · Robert MUNFORD · Egon NEUBAUER · Giorgio PAGLIARI · Albert RÀFOLS-CASAMADA · ROM ERO · Paulo da ROCHA · Antonio RUIZ · Carlos SANSEGUNDO · Adolfo SCHLOSSER · Emil SCHUMACHER · Soledad SEVILLA · Bertil SJÖBERG · Chino SORIA · Antonio SOSA · Sigeru TANIGUCHI · Antoni TÀPIES · Pepe TAUSTE · Heinz TRÖKES · Rafel TUR COSTA · Josep VALLRIBERA · Emilio VEDOVA · Felix WASKE · Willy WEBER · Jean WILLI ·Yoshio YAMANOBE · Corina YLLERA · Hiroyasu YOSHIIKE · José María YTURRALDE

This is a selection of exhibits from the MACE collection. The collection is very important because it is both our personality as well as being representative of our character. From time to time the collection changes for justifiable reasons and circumstances, for example to make room for new acquisitions, the loaning of works, the need for restorations or strictly to allow exhibits to rotate.
Our collection begins with the Grupo Ibiza 59 and the Ibiza Biennial exhibits. The collection is then boosted by deposits, legacies (Carl van der Voort, or the exhibit attributed to Goya by Antonio Isasi Isasmendi) and then acquisitions mainly from 1990 onwards.

Our aim is to look at the collection through each of its exhibits, letting the pulse race in order for them to remain alive and current in the light of our sensibilities rather than being relegated to their chronological pace but rather drawing strength and the protagonism for what they are and seek to be in real time and for each individual.
This is the reason why we have allowed ourselves to set out the collection in a creative way with complete freedom where the exhibits themselves seeks harmony, contrasts, approximations, distances as if they were living beings who emit, state, relate, vibrate, communicate and hold a dialogue.
There are moments when the exhibits in the collection are perfectly linked to the historiography of contemporary art within the context of the Europe of the second half of the 20th century; its avant garde currents. But then there are moments when they become dazzling, solitary and inalienable territories for expression.

Our collection is not easily ruled by guidelines running in a single direction, narrow and self-interested but rather fighting to show itself in an almost rebellious attitude, running from one end to the other, inviting questioning looks, infectious with their intensity and drawing a variety of opinions.
In a time of generalized crisis it is art which simultaneously allows us and helps us to live with uncertainty. In return we are only asked to examine it and grant it some time for contemplation and silence in order to be able to think about it and to interpret it.

71 artists are currently exhibited at the MACE. We have sought to locate the collection in different environments and above all we have aimed to generate a great deal of dialogue.
Abstraction is dominant, both that which maintains the links of an era and style with informalism and that dominated by geometry and optical-kinetic effects. Behind some of the figurative exhibits we can find surrealist inspiration like a new lease of life which inquires from the subconciouss and the dreamlike in terms of hermetic expression.
In every instance the MACE collection refers to Ibiza, the place where lives and works of all the artists who represent us come together, both those who were fleeting but transcendental as well as those who stayed here of their own free will.