New head office by Foster for the Sperone gallery
New York, 09/30/10 The Sperone Westwater gallery opens the doors of its new head office , designed by Foster and Partners, in 257 Bowery street, in the lower East Side of New York and scarcely a block away from the SANAA New Museum. Located before in the West Village, Sperone, a gallery with 35 years of history, doubles its exhibition space totaling 1.500...
The sculptures by Juan do Rego Santín
Madrid, 09/30/10 The sculptor Juan do Rego exhibits fifteen of his most recent sculptures- of small and large format- in the Cajamurcia Foundation (C/Cedaceros, 11) in Madrid. He has chosen different sorts of wood to carve, such as rosewood or oak. They are the result of a year of careful work and love for beauty and for a work well done. In Juan do Rego's work...
Casa Asia presents EMBT in Asia
Barcelona, 09/29/10 In 1989, with a recent major in architecture from the university of Venice, the architect benedetta Tagliabue formed an alliance with the Catalonian architect Enric Miralles to create the studio EMBT. They collaborated closely together obtaining a great deal of success along the way until the sudden death of Miralles in 2000. Since then the...
John Bock at the CAC Málaga
Málaga, 09/28/10 John Bock, born in 1965, in Schenefeld belongs to that group of artists whose art is too earth shattering to identify and whose style is ruled by a universe too personal and wide to properly classify. He is defined has been defined as an unconventional spirit and even chaotic. He is also one of the usuals at the Biennale de Venezia where his...
Lorca and Dalí at the Residencia de Estudiantes
Madrid, 09/24/10 In the midst of Primo de Rivera’s dictatorship, Madrid had only one last refuge with the necessary liberty and culture for creation could be found: the Residencia de Estudiantes. This institution housed and networked all the aspiring young promises that arrived in Madrid from the most remote areas of the country, whatever their background,...
Discovery of a work by Bruegel the Elder
Madrid, 09/24/10 "It is an exceptional development, so exceptional that we do not know whether it may occur again anywhere else in the world the discovery of a Bruegel, kike that, unexpectedly. There are hardly 40 Bruegels in the world" With this words the Spanish secretary of Culture, Ángeles González Sinde, announced the most important discovery of the year...
Revolutionary Renovations
Leerdam, Holland, 09/23/10 The national glass museum in Holland is located in Leerdam, a small city in the south east with a long standing tradition in the fabrication of glass. It was founded in 1953 and serves both as a laboratory and an exhibitor of glass works from 1850 onwards. Its founder, Petrus Marinus Cochius, president of the Leerdamle glass company, donated...
Feldman, Image collector
Madrid, 09/23/10 The Reina Sofia museum dedicates an anthological exhibition to Hans-Peter Feldman (Düsseldorf, 1941), one of the most representative artists of the Germany's sixties and seventies scene. The exhibition, inaugurated on the 21st of September, will be open to the public till the 28th of February of 2011, with the title An Exhibition of...
Italy and the Pre-Raphaelites
Oxford, 09/22/10 As we already mentioned in another article in this section the De Morgan foundation has loaned its vast collection of more than 1000 pieces of ceramics to a travelling exhibit around Japan. Meanwhile its more than 60 paintings and 500 graphic works await in storage for a new home. The foundation closed its doors in July of last year due to the...
Mario Testino lands in Spain by the hand of the Thyssen
Madrid, 09/22/10 “I like strong and independent women. Women who, despite their strength, never lose their femininity and never use their beauty as an instrument. Women with personality that reflects their desires as well as ours”, the prestigious Peruvian photographer points out. His work will be exhibited for the first time in Spain at the Thyssen-Bornemisza...
Lazcano: the different realities of a hyperrealist painter
Bilbao, 09/16/10 Lazkano and the museum of Bellas Artes in Bilbao run through their differences and similarities in this show open to the public from the 4th of October to the 16th of Janary. 84 paintings, 34 of which are fresh from his studio and a further 20 made exclusively for the exhibition portraying the museum and its surroundings, compose...
Anish Kapoor reflecting surroundings
London, 09/13/10 The exhibit gathers several creations from his latest period. The well known and enormous pieces of highly reflective stainless steel have been conceived to absorb the environment and translate it into unimaginable vistas. They achieve a complete integration in the urban landscape thanks to a constant communication with the viewer. In spite of...
The library of the Prado Museum reveals its treasures
Madrid, 09/08/10 The Museo del Prado library, installed since 2009 in the Casón del Buen Retiro, hosts a remarkable fund of old books consisting of some 4.500 volumes specialized in History of Art. In the past years, it has been increased thanks to the acquisition of the libraries of José María Cervelló and the Daza-Madrazo family. The exhibition will...
Raphael's cartoons for the Sistine Chapel tapestries
London, 09/07/10 From the XV to the XVIII century tapestries symbolised excellence, decorating not only palaces and castles of noblemen and kings, but also churches. Therefore, in 1515, Pope Leo X commissioned Raphael (1483-1520) to design a series of ten tapestries to cover the lower walls of the Sistine Chapel in Vatican. The Renaissance master carried...