VALENCIA.- On the occasion of Ramón Gaya’s hundredth anniversary IVAM exhibits “Homenaje a la pintura” [Homage to painting], which is co-organized by the State Society of Cultural Commemorations (SECC), in order to recall the love for painting expressed by Ramón Gaya through his tributes to past distinguished painters. It was during his exile in Mexico when, away from European museums but surrounded with painting reproductions he was fond of, he decided to pay tribute to the works he considered, more than historic witnesses, fully alive, as years after being created still impress those who gaze at them. This homage to painting was not focused on a particular school or culture, as it includes Chinese or Japanese together with Spanish, Dutch or Italian painters, by observing, more than their formal appearance, their pictoric essence. A catalogue has been published on the occasion of the exhibition. It