Tatxo Benet

In September 1980, Tatxo made what was to be his definitive move to Barcelona to work at El Periódico as editor of Las Cosas de la Vida, being appointed chief-editor of the section in the spring of 1982.

In January 1997, Tatxo moved to Madrid and was appointed General Director of Audiovisual Sport, a company participated by Sogecable (40%), Antonio Asensio (40%) and Televisió de Catalunya (20%), which was set up to commercialize the media rights to the Spanish Football League.

The collection includes works by Abel Azcona, Ai Weiwei, Francisco de Goya, Robert Mapplethorpe and Andres Serrano.

[7] In February 2018, shortly before it was withdrawn from Arco, Tatxo Benet acquired the piece Presos Políticos en la España contemporánea (lit.

Outraged by what he considers “an act of intolerable censorship,” he made the piece available to anyone who wishes to exhibit it, with the Museum in Lleida being its first destination, and from where the works of the Sixena Monastery had recently been removed.

[7] In January 2020, Benet bought a nude, feminized painting of Mexican Revolutionary General Emiliano Zapata, La Revolución by Fabián Cháirez.

[10] The bookstore had dedicated over half a century to literature in Catalan and is scheduled to reopen its doors to customers in the center of Barcelona in time for Sant Jordi 2020.