Museo Jorge Rando
Former convent turned expressionist art museum, its raw concrete additions cut into a nineteenth-century cloister.
This guide to the Museo Jorge Rando in Málaga opens with an unusual fact: the museum is devoted to a living painter, opened in 2015 when Rando was seventy-three, inside a building that once housed nuns. It traces the space back to 1893, when the Convent of Las Mercedarias was built, and forward to the 2011 renovation that cut raw concrete and weathering steel into the old cloister. Along the way it follows Rando himself, a Málaga-born painter raised in a family split by the Civil War, who left for a half-ruined postwar Cologne and worked as a welder and restorer before he ever painted for a gallery.
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