La Fundación magazine: an experience to remember

When was the last time you did something for the first time?

This is the question we asked ourselves in the first issue, in May 2023, in a return to paper, to the tangible and the material, in a world where today everything is either digital or has its equivalent, like this post, in this medium.

This tactile sensibility (as well as the need to observe) is still very much in evidence. Picking up an issue of the magazine should be the beginning of a journey, with its attendant promise of discovery. In our case, space (to unfold the magazine) together with time and focus (to really travel down the path).

On our first anniversary, we celebrate you, our readers. Thank you for your interest, for asking about the upcoming issue, for congratulating us. And thanks to everyone who has made the magazine possible. From the editorial and production teams to the people who have shared their time and art with us. Their names, their stories, their lives, in some way, are already part of the magazine. Just look back at the summaries of each issue to recall them all.

In issue 1 we started with In Praise of Paper and lead with Louis Stettner and his mystery on the cover, we moved on to Colour and Light, with William Eggleston in the second, we landed on The Commitment with the gaze of a child by Strömholm in issue three, and to celebrate our first anniversary, we have Utopias, a work by David Goldblatt that invites us to think and delight right from the cover.

We have gone back to the roots, the aim was not to invent anything. When was the last time you did something for the first time?  We wanted to recapture the wonder of the original innovation, a paper publication, where visual discourse and text are equally important and in dialogue, as well as a physical item that might become a precious object.

In each issue, in addition to enjoying the work of the artists featured in our exhibitions, we are treated to the stories that journalists, artists and writers construct through classic yet contemporary themes:  art, health, solidarity, human relations, sustainability and the key implications of technology.

At Fundación MAPFRE we work hard to improve people’s lives. Through this magazine we try to do this, too, at a time when enjoyment, joy and reflection are paramount.

You can get your copy at our exhibition halls in either Madrid or Barcelona, as well as at newsstands with the Harper’s Bazaar supplement on their publication dates. You can purchase the latest issue here.

Thank you for reading it, for giving the magazine as a gift, for collecting it. We keep working, celebrating, so that each issue is a different experience: a journey that demands dedication, but which gives you back that and more.