The writer and art critic Juan Manuel Bonet Born in Paris in 1953, he has served as director of the IVAM and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. He currently advises the Bancaja Foundation on its collection of contemporary European painting. Bonet has curated exhibitions such as Surrealism between the Old and New Worlds, The Surrealist Object in Spain, The Poet as Artist, Spain in the 50s, and The Indalianos: An Almerian AdventureIn addition to exhibitions about writers such as Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Juan Guerrero Ruiz, Francisco Vighi, Rafael Alberti or Max Aub and retrospectives dedicated to names such as Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, Giorgio Morandi, Francisco Bores, Juan José Luis González Bernal, José Jorge Oramas, Esteban Vicente, Manolo Millares, Lucio Muñoz, José Guerrero, Francesc Catalá Roca, Alex Katz, Bernard Plossu, Helmut Federle, Neo Rauch, Xesús Vázquez, Dis Berlin, Ángel Guache and Pelayo Ortega.

Among his works, the following stand out: Dictionary of the avant-garde in Spain (1907-1936), in addition to monographs on Juan Gris and Gerardo Rueda, several books of poems, and the diary La ronda de los días. He is also the author of two books of conversations with Bernard Plossu and Luis Palmero and of critical editions of books by Ramón Gómez de la Serna, Rafael Cansinos-Asséns, Rafael Lasso de la Vega, Saulo Torón, Salvador Dalí, Max Aub, Carlos Baylín Solanas, and Manolo Millares.