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One is to share the best international contemporary art with society at large and the other is to help turn the Valencian Autonomous Community into a top cultural and artistic destination. The Centre will show off the Hortensia Herrero Foundation's private collection, which includes works by artists such as Andreas Gursky, Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Miquel Barceló, Alexander Calder, Tony Cragg and Anish Kapoor, as well as temporary exhibitions of other world-famed artists.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The project also meets one of the Foundation's key aims, namely heritage conservation by restoring and repurposing an iconic Valencian palace, Palacio Valeriola (Valeriola Palace), an iconic 17th-century building in the Baroque Style, in Valencia's Old Town. 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