MADRID, SPAIN.- The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof韆 presents Juan Soriano – Travelling Birds, on view through February 19, 2007. The Mexican artist Juan Soriano (Guadalaja, 1920 - M閤ico, D.F., 2006) had his first exhibition in the town of his birth at age 14. Painters Mar韆 Izquierdo and Jos� Ch醰ez Morado, as well as photographer Lola 羖varez Bravo, visited that exhibition and recognized the birth of a new artist. They suggested that he move to Mexico City, which he does a year later and where he starts a friendship with Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Jos� Clemente Orozco and the literary group The Contemporaries, as well as with writer Octavio Paz.

A few years later, when Spanish exiles arrive to Mexico, he meets Mar韆 Zambrano, Diego de Mesa, Ram髇 Gaya, Luis Cernuda, Jos� Bergam韓, Le髇 Felipe, Max Aub, Pedro Garfias, Francisco Giner de los R韔s, Juan Larrea, Manuel Altolaguirre, Jos� Gaos y Juan Gil-Albert, among others.