Mustang Art Gallery ONE OF THE MOST UNUSUAL CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERIES I have ever been to sits unexpectedly in the Elche Parc Industrial Estate.
Open to the general public.
Comprising of three floors, the gallery is very modern with tastefully elegant stairs and lifts and glass fronted balconies that provide an excellent space for displaying modern artworks and installations of all types.
The gallery also has a café bar that looks out onto the ground floor.
Not open as yet, it should be soon.
The café is also a beautifully modern space with huge armchairs just outside the doors in the spacious reception area.
It all looks very comfortable.
My wife Carol and I with two art appreciating friends attended an opening night of a new exhibition in March, this was the second time I had visited the gallery.
The exhibition was by an up-and-comming young Madrid photographer called Juan de Marcos.
It was by invitation only for the art literati around the Alicante Provence and quite posh.
Free food, drink and live music certainly helped launch the exhibition.
The photographs were thought provoking and clearly right on the sharp leading edge of photographic art.
Big photographs were displayed high up where they could be seen from the mezzanine floor.
The whole thing was very well done indeed.
The exhibition is on until the 9th of April 2011.
After that there is an entire programme for the remainder of the year.
There are going to be two exhibitions of sculpture; 'Inflatable Giants' starts on the 9th of June and finishes on the 2nd of July and another sculpture exhibition by Ana Soler starting on the 8th of September to the 28th of October.
For lovers of painting and graphic art there will also be two exhibitions; one by Marlon de Azambuja from the 14th of April to the 28th of May and another by Olga Diego from the 3rd of November to the 7th of January 2012.
MAG is easy to find, the parc is on the CV850 between Elche and TorreIIano.
It is particularly well signposted as you approach from Elche.
The parc itself is difficult to miss as it is gigantic.
As you come off the parc entrance roundabout and turn into the parc, keep going on the main drag for about half a kilometre.
Look out on your left for the big Mustang sign on a curvy, glassy, very modern low level building.
The gallery is free to enter and is open 10am to 8pm Monday to Saturday.
If you're near Alicante in Spain and are at a loose end give it a visit.