LIBRO CERCLE

44 availabilityasacultural agent and vector of all kindsofmanifestations of art. It has participated as an active collaborator in countless activities, assessing, supporting and facilitating access to its archives and col- lections with the aim of providing people with the heritage value of their own cultural institutions, seeking to defend the interests of both the city and artists. It stays at the vanguard of the boldest andmost renewing artistic movements, or supports the relevance of tradition, academicism and the glorious past that set the foundations that to- day’s art stands upon. The Circle has constantly organised exhibitions specially designed so that its members may legitimate their progress and participate in projectsbothartisticand theoretical innature. Similarly, the roomsde- signed for temporaryexhibitions that havewelcomeddisplayscoming fromaround theworld, generouslyopening itsdoors to thepublicand insisting on the importance of sharing its artistic and cultural legacy with the citizenry.