Art & Gastronomy at the Palace
Madrid, 06/30/11 Yesterday was inaugurated at the Gin Tonic Lounge of the Hotel Westin Palace Madrid the installation of the artist dEmo. A new explosion of colorful artist's visual universe which is present in this space via its pop aesthetic sculptures and paintings, combining artistic and gastronomic forms. Nine sculptures of bears with the unmistakable...
The intimate art of Caillebotte
Paris, 06/29/11 Dans l'intimité des frères Caillebotte, peintre et photographe is the staging of a new approach discourse to the work of the French brothers, located at the intersection of photography and painting in the turn of the Impressionist century. An artistic universe for the new century, marked by the close relationship of the brothers and the changes...
The CBA is committed to support the emergent art
Madrid, 06/29/11 The roof of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, which opened its doors last 21 days, held this summer two photographic exhibitions of emergent artists. A bet of commitment to disseminating the work of new artists, result of a selection process among students in two of the most prestigious photography schools in Madrid: EFTI (Escuela de...
'Ars Histórica' opening
Madrid, 06/28/11 The opening of Ars Histárica generates new expectation around a modern concept of archeology gallery. Founded by experts and scholars of art, with the advice from experts such as Félix Cervera, provides to the public an important collection of pieces from Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Middle East, from private collections and international...
Enigmatic elements
Figueras, 06/27/11 Enigmatic elements in a landscape by Salvador Dalí is an oil on panel that has been acquired by the Spansh artist’s foundation to a private collector who wishes to remain anonymous. Since 1991 the Dalí Foundation has carried out an intense policy of acquiring works to complete the existent museum holdings. The surrealist artist painted the...
A History of Paper at the Louvre
Paris, 06/27/11 White or colored, translucent or refilled, reused or selected. The artist draws with different types of paper. What brand, joins it, and Rubens, he cuts-Ingres-like, select what attracts you to their qualities and transforms it. A relationship that in the twentieth century, it becomes an art in itself with the works by Braque, Picasso and...
A World of Glamour in Polaroid
Berlin, 06/22/11 More than 300 original Polaroids of Helmut Newton. Images taken from the 1970's, used by the artist as part of the creative process of his fashion images. A snapshot immediately used to recognize the real state of the translation of his avant-garde visions to photo paper. A sketch, an idea that, in addition to the probative value of the...
A Golden Age (1450-1550)
Valladolid, 06/21/11 After its presentation at the Museu Arte Antiga in Lisbon, the exhibition dedicated to the golden years of Portuguese painting is now available in Spain under the motto Primitive. The golden century of Portuguese painting. 1450-1550. The exhibition unveils a large selection of panel paintings: 48 works from various collections in Portugal....
The inner life of the Louvre
Madrid, 06/21/11 Included with the Official Guests of the Official Schedule of PhotoEspaña, the exhibition of the Brazilian photographer Alécio Andrade at Casa de América brings together 88 images that reflect the attitudes of visitors to the Musée du Louvre. A catalog of types and expressions, selected from over 12,000 photos taken since 1964 —for nearly...
Leonor Antunes and the Gift of Ubiquity
Madrid, 06/20/11 The Spanish Pavilion at the Brussels World Exhibition 1958, awarded with the Gold Medal of Architecture, is the starting point of the work Leonor Antunes presented today at the Reina Sofia Museum. Build by the architects Ramón Vázquez Molezún and José Antonio Corrales, the building was taken in 1959 to the Casa de Campo, where is currently in...
Memorabilia of the magical universe
Madrid, 06/20/11 One hundred works collected from the funds of the BNE, the Real Academia de la Historia, Fundación Universitaria and the Collection of Rafael Amieva, curator of the show, give rise to a historical journey of nearly three centuries the territory of magic and his show. A journey that combines the various sciences derived as mnemonics or physical...
An Image to Memory: the 'carte de visite'
Madrid, 06/17/11 Lázaro Galdiano Foundation is incorporated as new headquarters for the official section PhotoEspaña called Interfaces. And it does with an exhibition that shows the popularity of cartes de visite in the second half of the XIXth century. Understood as an instrument of sociability (or promotion), the cards that appear together in the exhibition...
'No One Is an Island'
New York, 06/17/11 "We know what animals do, and what beavers and bears, salmon and all other creatures need, because once, our men marry them and they acquired this knowledge of their animal wives." This testimony by a Hawaiian Indian in the early decades of last century, collected by Claude Lévi-Strauss in The Savage Mind (1962), bears witness to a broken...
III Course of Art History at the Palacio de la Mosquera
Arenas de San Pedro, 06/16/11 Program:Wednesday, July 20, 2011 20:00 pm: The role of the Salamanca gallery in the international dispersion of the collection of the Infante Don Luis. Sophie Domínguez-Fuentes (Doctor of the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne). Thursday, July 21, 2011 9:30 pm: Master Plan and the rehabilitation of the Mosquera Palace. Fernando Espinosa de los...
Art Basel: facing Asia
Basel, 06/15/11 As usual, Art Basel marks the summer reunion of most international galleries. A space where emerging artists, collectors and large firms in the last century converge, where This year 7 Spanish galleries are involved. Founded by a group of local art businessmen, the first edition took place in 1970, becoming today, a common space for all forms...
'Abstract Painting, 1949-1969’
Bilbao, 06/14/11 The main artistic tendencies of American and European art from 1949-1969 are shown today in Bilbao, illustrated by a selection of works from the collections of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. About 80 works of more than 60 artists, among which we can find Karel Appel, Alberto...
Interview with José Manuel de la Mano...
Madrid, 06/14/11 The publication of the Catalogue Raisonné of Drawings of Mariano Salvador Maella (1739-1819) represents the major contribution to the study of the artist's work for over a decade and a half. A publication that condenses the research efforts of Professor José Manuel de la Mano (UAM) and transforms our knowledge of the painter, expanding the...
Elena Asins in perspective
Madrid, 06/13/11 The exhibition which opens tomorrow, June 14, in the Sabatini building of MNCARS, is not an anthology or retrospective in nature, but rather, is a reflection of the work in perspective of Asins Elena (Madrid, 1940) . There may be pieces that range from the very beginning of his career in the sixties to the present, with the aim of submitting to...
The artistic Pharmacopoeia of Lili Dujourie
Burgos, 06/10/11 The exhibition dedicated to Lili Dujourie (Roeselare, 1941) in Burgos brings together a group of works organized around one of his latest creations: Ballade (2011). The representation of flowers and plants from around the continent, which serve as examination of the virtues and medicinal properties that reflects traditional herbal pharmacopoeia...
Atget and beauty of the old city
Madrid, 06/09/11 His images have inspired many of the major players in the history of twentieth-century photography as Cartier-Bresson, Brassaï and Evans, but even so, Eugène Atget (1856-1927) is still unknown to the major public. Discovered for the history of photography in the surrealist movement, now can be rediscovered in the halls of Madrid Paseo de...
'Enclosure and the untimely city center'
Madrid, 06/08/11 The promenade. Enclosures and the untimely city center was presented in the Casa de Vacas of El Retiro Park, as the result of the common work of both artists, which includes paintings by Coro López-Izquierdo and sculptures by Mariano Vilallonga. The exhibition, which can be seen until June 24, offers the perspective of the artists on the...
Makart, painter of the senses
Wien, 06/08/11 Beyond the monographic character of the exhibition, the event which opens today at the Belvedere museum is dedicated to the new relationship established between artists and society of nineteenth century Austria. Makart. Artist of the senses provides a general and representative reading of the paintings of Hans Makart (1840-1884) in an...
'Willi Baumeister (1889-1955). Paintings and Drawings'
Palma de Mallorca, 06/08/11 Willi Baumeister was one of the protagonists of the Avant-garde in Germany. A multidisciplinary artist, whose work transcends the usual genres to get into the theatrical scenery, typography and photography. However, its historiographical reception has always tended to identify him with his painting career in the orbit of abstraction and...
Medinaceli supports art
Medinaceli, 06/07/11 The Ducal Palace of Medinaceli is being reorganized into a contemporary art center. The Renaissance courtyard designed by Juan Gómez de Mora in the sixteenth century, today is transformed with the installation of a dome designed by architect Xavier Vitoria and illuminated with 151 drawings by the artist Agustín Ibarrola. An element that is...
'Nord-Sud', poetics of the almost imperceptible
Madrid, 06/07/11 Nord-Sud. 30 photos of Bernard Plossu with 30 poems by Juan Manuel Bonet, is the result of an attractive and consistent dialogue between images of French photographer and poems that have inspired the writer and art critic Juan Manuel Bonet. A pleasant coincidence that develops in the environment of a particular poetics of everyday life, able to...
The 54th Biennale di Venezia Awards
Venice, 06/06/11 The 54th edition of the International Art Exhibition Biennale di Venezia led by art historian and critic Bice Curig, which opened its doors on June 4, has his winners. The jury headed by Hassan Khan, in the company of Carol Yinghua Lu, Letizia Ragaglia, Christine Macel and John Waters, has decided to award the Golden Lion for Best National...
Deadly Alive: Fayum / Paci
Madrid, 06/03/11 Born of a mixture of Greek painting in encaustic, Roman realism and Egyptian funerary rites, the group of tables known as "Fayum portraits", consists of a surprising number of works from the necropolis of Fayum and other Egyptian sites. Works that surprise us today for their modern and effective, although it has been made between the first and...
Juan Terreros, painter of painters
Madrid, 06/03/11 The Orfila gallery still retains that air of avant guard and debate which every place destined to contemplation should have. The director, Antonio Leyva, is quiet a character, the type of gallery owner whose principles and tastes rise above his duty as a salesman. He encourages and invites sales but he does not attach to them the success or...
'Ornament & Detonation'
Madrid, 06/02/11 Santiago Morilla (Madrid, 1973) presents Ornament & Detonation to inaugurate the Museo ABC Connections exhibition program. This project is based on the approach of various guest artists that will perform a specific job based on the possible relationship to establish between his own work, those on the Santander Collection and the works on the...
Waking up the Sleeping Beauty
Madrid, 06/02/11 The work of Bosniasn-French artist Maja Bajevic (Sarajevo, 1967) has been characterized by his demonstration of the social and historical fractures of the recent history of Europe. A committed and conscientious work, which explores the relationships between war, power management and the construction of collective identity, to assess its impact...
Picasso and Frenhofer, a dialogue between masters
Madrid, 06/01/11 The genealogy of the meaning of "masterpiece" leads us to Greece, like with many other aesthetic ideas. A heritage collected by Pliny, which was acquiring new meanings over the centuries, until the origins of the museum. Then, a new process of change in visual values of the work of art, caused the formation of the historiography of art...
'The hand with a pencil'
Madrid, 06/01/11 The hand with a pencil. Twentieth-century drawings provides to its public a hundred drawings that approach us to the aesthetic bias produced by the passage of academic art to the avant-garde. An exhibition, featuring an extensive list of distinguished artists, talking about the process of building a new expression that leads to modern painting,...