'From Goya to today', tradition and modernity
Zaragoza, 05/31/11 Some of the most significant works of the Ibercaja art collection had left, temporarily, his house: the Casa del Infanzon. They are displayed in a new context. In the move, new partners have joined the roster of distinguished artists —Goya, Barbasón or Viola, to name a few—, like Francisco Pradilla and Juan Genovés, completing the unique set of...
PhotoEspaña 2011, the schedule
Madrid, 05/30/11 The XIV edition of PHotoEspaña Festival offers a program of 66 exhibitions in 57 venues. And now, we detail below those on the Official Selection, Interfaces. Portrait and communication, in which Gerardo Mosquera, the artistic director's, proposes a series of exhibitions focusing on the portrait, whose key element is the face as a sign of...
Fascinated by Orient
Marseille, 05/27/11 The period between the Egyptian campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte (1798-1801) and Henri Matisse's travel to the Maghreb (1906), is considered the golden age of the Orientalist painting. The culmination of a fascination demonstrated throughout the history of art in the Modern Age —extended to all the enthusiastic artists from all the continent— and...
Neo Rauch and the sleepwalking atmosphere
Baden-Baden, 05/26/11 From May 28 to September 18, the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden presents the art of Neo Rauch. An exhibition which makes available to the public the four major large-scale paintings held by the institution, and set of recent works (some of them exhibited for the first time). An opportunity to approach to a unique pictorial pictorial...
The 'magnetized space' by Lygia Pape
Madrid, 05/26/11 Considered, along with Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, as one of the biggest names in contemporary art in Brazil, Lygia Pape (1927-2004) has developed a career marked by the experimentation and the constant mutation of their works. An artist who began his career in the Concrete movement integrated in the Grupo Frente, who left with Oiticica and...
Guillaume Keintz, new curator of Spanish painting at the Louvre
Madrid, 05/26/11 We were talking about Goya... I have Goya's italian notebook, which I consider an editorial gem. The nice thing about it, is that you can take it anywhere, while you are waiting for a cab or sitting in a train. Having his notebook, with his notes, his sketches, his grocery list... is great! Are you now focusing on Ribera? Well, in the...
'Poland. Treasures and Art Collections'
Madrid, 05/25/11 Perceived from Spain as a country in an alien orbit, Poland and its culture are one of the great unknown to the general public within the European Union. However, his history is present in the main pages of the early modern Europe, both as a member of Austria-Hungary and Germany, and for its links with Sweden. In addition, its geographic...
Torres-García, always at the crossroads
Barcelona, 05/25/11 Torres-García in its Crossroads offers the opportunity to learn an important set of works, mostly unpublished until today, of the Uruguayan-Catalan artist. Drawings, paintings and "constructions" of wood, to explore the creative world of an artist; whose origins are in Modernism, continue to spread through Novecentism, and rich the Vanguards...
'The Iceberg Effect'
Seville, 05/24/11 Curated by Juan Manuel Bonet, the exhibition The Iceberg Effect includes a selection of the extensive collections of the Museum of Madrid ABC, for a presentation at the Hospital of the Venerable of Seville, home of the Focus-Abengoa Foundation. It is a journey into 350 pieces, as an approach to the collection (composed of about 200,000),...
Brancusi and Serra will meet in Basel
Basel, 05/24/11 The linkages between the work of Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and Richard Serra (1939) are the main object of the sample being held these days in Switzerland. About 40 selected pieces that revolve around the discourse of the reduction of sculptural volumes and limits of the discipline; an exploration of the formal essence and the primitive...
New Statute for MNCARS
Madrid, 05/23/11 The last Council of Ministers held on Friday, gave its approval to a new institutional model for the Reina Sofia. A draft consensus recognized by all political groups, interpreted as a political gesture, which is the beginning of the long process of statutory reform demanded by the center. Reforms that can be summarized roughly, in increasing...
'Les Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin / Madrid'
Madrid, 05/20/11 Following the conclusion of the event in Paris, Les Rencontres Internationales flock to the Spanish capital before making way to Berlin (next July). Originally held in Paris and Berlin, the meetings haveMadrid as a third seat since 2007. This new 2011 edition is marked by the presentation of a more varied and ambitious program that remarks on...
MAS, an iconic museum for Antwerp
Antwerp, 05/20/11 The MAS has become a cultural and visual icon for Antwerp several months before his inauguration. The Museum has been designed by the Dutch tandem Neutelings & Riedijk, and created with the purpose to narrate (in their collections) the long history of exchanges that linking Antwerp and its port to the world. New stories told by the traces they...
Heterodox Yayoi Kusama
Madrid, 05/19/11 To escape the traditional and conservative slab of her native Matsumoto, Yayoi Kusama (1929) was moved early to Kyoto to train as an artist. A real statement of her personality. A sample of an unconventional spirit which guided his steps to New York in 1958, the world capital of contemporary art, looking for an independent career with no patron...
International Museum Day
Madrid, 05/18/11 Sponsored by the International Council of Museums (ICOM), the highest representative body of museums and professionals worldwide, today comes a new edition of the Museum Day. Another year, as usual since 1977, museum institutions worldwide offer to the audiences an agenda of special activities to celebrate the feast. Under the theme "Museum...
An artist in the margins
Madrid, 05/18/11 Born deaf, illiterate recognized, self-taught artist, James Castle (1899-1977) always worked on the margins of the circuits of art and culture. He was the operator of an imaginary self-oriented to popular culture. His prolific (and frantic) production spread over decades. Now, the anthological exhibition at the MNCARS brings together drawings,...
Somewhere between the real and imaginary
Móstoles, 05/17/11 Estación Experimental (Experimental Station) retrieves for the viewer the main links between artistic creativity and science in the contemporary scene. An old script based on experimentation without definite direction, that moves us to a hybrid scenario —the studio-laboratory—, in which the real and imaginary result in the discovery. A space...
Centenary of Roberto Matta, 1911-2011
Bilbao, 05/17/11 Recognized member of the Surrealist group, first Latin American artist to be part of the vanguard of the 40's, and a great influence on the development of American abstract expressionism, Roberto Matta (Santiago de Chile, 1911-Tarquinia, 2002) is one of the key figures of the art of the last century. An artist committed to art and society of...
Esteban Vicente, experimental and reflexive
Dallas, 05/16/11 Concrete Improvisations: Collages and Sculptures by Esteban Vicente, is the title of the exhibition organized by the Grey Art Gallery, the Museo Esteban Vicente of Contemporary Art and Acción Cultural Española (AC / E), which also has the support of The Harriet and Esteban Vicente Foundation. An exhibition that highlights a facet of the artist...
Mirrors and Echoes at the Museum
Metz, 05/13/11 A year after its inauguration, the Centre Pompidou-Metz rejoins Daniel Buren to undertake a new project. The joint invitation of Mudam Luxembourg, the Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean and the Centre Pompidou in Metz, has led Buren a new charge in the field of the specific installation, with two spectacular structures designed for the halls of...
'One balloon, two balloons, three balloons...'
Vigo, 05/13/11 Martin Creed (Wakefield, UK, 1968) presented a project specifically designed for MARCO, which is his first solo exhibition in Spain. The British artist had occupied the ground floor of the museum with Work No. 247 Half the Air in a Given space, a piece that shape half the air in the space using blue balloons, that change the perception of the...
Ai Weiwei's Zodiac
London, 05/12/11 The project Circle of Animals / Zodiac Heads of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, will be the first contemporary sculptures on display in the historic courtyard of Somerset House. And also, the first European headquarters of this project. An international traveling exhibition, which is carrying twelve monumental bronzes, recreations of traditional...
A Story of Deception
New York, 05/12/11 The exhibition Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception was inaugurated on May 8 in the halls of MoMA and PS1. The project emphasizes on the production process of Alÿs's work and its methods —video, painting, performance, drawing and photography— through three works newly acquired by the museum: Re-enactments (2001), When Faith Moves Mountains (2002)...
Artur Barrio, Velázquez awardwinner
Madrid, 05/11/11 Blood, plastics and pieces of fresh meat; with those materials Artur Barrio expresses himself, a Portuguese artist living in Rio de Janeiro who has been developing his visceral art for 30 years now. Art which comes from trash and waste materials. Those “non conventional” elements are which has precisely served to obtain Velázquez prize of...
The total work of Cabot
Rio de Jnaeiro, 05/06/11 Born in 1963, Roberto Cabot spent his childhood, and part of his adolescence, between New York and Paris. Initially trained as an architect in Rio and Paris, finally, he decided to finish his studies into l'École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, where he studied with Pierre Alechinsky (co-founder of CoBrA Group in early 1950). Since then,...
Adequate / Inadequate
Madrid, 05/05/11 The Secretaría de Cooperación Internacional de Asuntos Exteriores (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) is responsible, once again through AECID, of the organization of the Spanish presence in the International Art Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia. The cultural management of this new edition has gone to the curator Katya García-Antón, selected by an...
'Not only Goya', not just on paper
Madrid, 05/05/11 From today the public that come to the Prado Museum can admire, for the first time, a selection of drawings, prints and photographs, acquired by the Prado Museum and the Ministry of Culture between 1997 and 2010. Works preserved in the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings, due to their fragile material characteristics, that only visit the exhibition...
The critical canvas of Leon Golub
Madrid, 05/04/11 Leon Golub (1922 -2004) is almost unknown to the Spanish public. Recognized by the recent historiography for his critical position, there's no Spanish museum that has paid special attention yet. Therefore, the MNCARS stated in his proposal about a hundred works with a retrospective perspective. Works that can trace his history from its...
Parisian Luxury and Sociability during the Enlightenment
Los Angeles, 05/03/11 Inspired by the breadth and diversity of its collections, the J. Paul Getty Museum provides visitors the ability to remember everyday life in France during the eighteenth century. A cultural and historical experience that comprises a total of 160 different objects, including paintings, sculpture, applied arts, drawing, jewelry, furniture,...
The twilight that leads to disaster
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 05/03/11 Martín & Sicilia have his first solo show in TEA with this stark and critical proposal on consumption, the single thought, planned obsolescence and the crisis of contemporary identity. Black Friday is a set of seven large pieces created specially for Tenerife Espacio de las Artes —Paradise (2010), Cock fight (2011), The Bullfight (2011),...