9-11 through the camera obscura
Chicago, 08/31/11 The attacks of 9-11 have become one of the most emblematic and tragic events in the history of the United States. Even today, Ground Zero is not only a point of tourist attraction but also stimulates the relief of buried sentiments after years of recovery. The memories of the masacre still provokes tears in a global level when the area...
The ‘unveiled’ Mona Lisa
Miami, 08/31/11 Following the path of openness and the collaboration between Galleria Ca'd'Oro and the Miami Dade College (MDC), this exhibition inspired by the iconic portrait of Leonardo da Vinci was presented at the headquarters of the Freedom Tower on the 29th of August. Mona Lisa Unveiled travels from the Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci of Florence to...
Visa pour l'Image opens in Perpiñán
Perpiñán, 08/29/11 Once again, the Festival Internacional de Fotoperiodismo Visa pour l’Image de Perpiñán opens its doors with the objective of reviving the work and the relationships between photojournalists, agencies and the public. A forum to meet background documentaries and unedited stories that enhance the vivacity of a profession where the concept of...
A retrospective on Hokusai
Berlin, 08/26/11 Under the auspices of the Japanese Embassy, as part of a program of events for the commemoration of the 150 years of the Germanic-Nippon friendship, Berliner Festspiele has organized the largest retrospective dedicated to Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) in Germany. The selected curator for the occasion has been Seiji Nagata, responsible for the...
Renaissance faces at the Bode Museum
Berlin, 08/25/11 Renaissance Faces – Masterpieces of Italian Portraiture is the selected title to baptize the display that opens its doors today at the Bode Museum of Berlin. A collection of over 150 works among which we can find paintings, drawings, medals and sculptural busts from over 50 institutions —the Galleria Degli Uffizi of Florence, the Musée du...
The moulting of skin. Illustrations by Isabel Albertos Johnston
Segovia, 08/24/11 The Sala de las Caballerizas of the Torreón de Lozoya houses until the 12th of September the work by Isabel Albertos Johnston, an artist from Segovia trained at the Facultad de Bellas Artes of the Universidad Complutense and at ECAM (Escuelas de Cine y Televisión de Madrid). With the title of The fear of being invaded. I (heart) Cargo the...
‘Every day is a good day
London, 08/23/11 The Hayward Gallery presents until Septmeber 5th the results of the first conscientious analysis –a description attributed by the texts in the catalogue– of the corpus of graphic art created by John Cage (1912-1992) throughout his career. Composer, writer, artist and cultural agitator, Cage was one of most important composers of the 20th...
Lee Ufan and 'the mark’ of infinity
New York, 08/22/11 Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity marks the official recognition in the United States of the artist and philosopher, sculptor by excellence, who has developed his career between Korea, Japan and France in the last forty years. The exhibition offers a lecture of Lee’s work from the position of the teaching and artistic creativity of his homeland, both...
James Whistler, ‘philosopher painter’
Washington D.C., 08/22/11 The gallery of the Smithsonian’s Institute of Asian Art presents the cultural union between America and the Far East in the permanent exhibition it opened on the 18th of August: The Peacock Room comes to America. The room reflects the importance given to the ‘points of contact’ between both continents according to the decorator, the painter...
The ‘lines of flight’ of Yiso BAHC
Seoul, 08/19/11 Yiso BAHC has been recognized in his country as the artist that introduced postmodern theories of the Korean artistic scene. His carreer is divided into two periods associated to his alias. He first worked in New York under the name of deMo BAHC between 1982 and 1994, and, after his return to Seoul, he adopted the pseudonum of Yiso BAHC until...
The Land of Brueghel
Lier, 08/18/11 The Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten of Antwerp (KMSKA) is immersed in a long reform process that will continue until the year 2017. For this reason, the extraordinary backgrounds of its collection begin a tournée that will allow them to meet a new audience in several headquarters of the regional museums in Belgium. The exhibition titled...
Herculean statue found in Israel
Valley of Jezreel, 08/17/11 After the excavations at Horvat Tabernet, an ancient Jewish settlement from the third century, the railway project that is being carried out in the area has found a new marble figure of Hercules from the second century. It is an effigy of only half a meter tall missing the right leg and arm and the head. The body is carved in white marble with...
Forcellino and Michelangelo, a mannerist relationship
Madrid, 08/16/11 On July 9th, the journalist Rob Sharp published in the British newspaper, The Independent, the discovery of a new Michelangelo in the United Kingdom by the veteran expert on Italian Renaissance, Antonio Forcellino: La Crucifixión con la Virgen, san Juan y dos ángeles llorando. This extraordinary news is followed by a second discovery at other...
Omnipresent João Penalva
Lisbon, 08/16/11 João Penalva (Lisbon, 1949) is considered by the critics (and by his compatriots) as one of the most international artists from Portugal. For this reason, the Centro de Arte Moderna (CAM) from the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in Lisbon, dedicates a large, monographic exhibition produced until this date to the artist. João Penalva. Trabalhos com...
'The tangible and the unreal' in the present Chinese art
Valencia, 08/12/11 Bonsai : the tangible and the unreal nature in Chinese art brings together 43 works of twelve Chinese artists focused on social concerns with a critical and personal point of view . Combining traditional techniques and concepts of Eastern art with new materials and forms of the artistic expression of Western culture, China art is experiencing a...
'Walead Beshty. A diagram of forces'
Móstoles, 08/11/11 Commissioned by Ferran Barenblit and Jacob Fabricius, the show exhibits Walead Beshty. A diagram of forces, presented by the Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo (CA2M), offering a panoramic vision of the English artist (London, 19767) living in Los Ángeles, a city where he works as an associate professor at the Art Center College of Design. An artistic...
The Museo del Barrio presents Margarita Aguilar as its new director
Nueva York, 08/10/11 The recognized specialist on colonial, Latin and Latin American contemporary art, Margarita Aguilar, has been the selected candidate to run the Museo del Barrio of New York following the departure of her predecessor, Julián Zugazagoitia, who is now in charge of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Aguilar, who has developed her...
Buddhist art of Gandhara
New York, 08/09/11 The rich artistic heritage of Gandhara between centuries I BC-V AC is marked by the imprint of Scythians, Greeks and Romans. The Buddhist heritage of Pakistan: Art of Gandhara reveals the complex form of the influences that fueled the extraordinary artistic production in this region, through its major productions. This is the first exhibition...
'Encounters', the image of Christ in the Modern Age
Madrid, 08/08/11 From the Infancy of Christ to his Resurrection, nine works from the permanent collection of Ancient Paintings illustrating scenes meaningful life of the Redeemer from great masters of the fourteenth to eighteenth centuries. This is how the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid wants to join the celebration of Jornada Mundial de la Juventud...
Golden Age Dutch painting comes to life in New York
New York, 08/05/11 What began as a catalogue raisone on the artist has turned out to be one of the most important exhibtions of the museum's summer agenda. The new array Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum exhibits 13 paintings by the old master painter, two of them on loan from private collections, and many other works by Flemish and Dutch artists of the...
The Chinese creators that dared to challenge tradition
Rome, 08/04/11 Overcoming tradition does mean its refusal, it means learning from it and exceeding it, Particularly in a country with traditions so deeply rooted as they are in China, where it is hard to escape from it. Further than tradition establishes an approach to this reality and to the efforts of a group of authors to modernize painting. Six authors,...
Manipulations in black and white
Moscow, 08/03/11 “…The materiality of an idea is not the final objective of a produced work as much as it is its framing; its portrait. Just like in the classical instantaneous picture: its exact moment.” This is how the photographer’s work is described by the curator of the exhibit Borja Cassani. The melancholy of the effect of black and white becomes the...
The Darmstadt Madonna sold for more than 50 million euros
Madrid, 08/03/11 It would be necessary to go back to the end of the second world war to find a similar example. It has been decades since the traspass of ownership of a similar master work of this quality. The work by the Dutch painter, sometimes baptized as the northern equivalent of the Sistine Madonna by Raphael, is unexportable. This condition has limited...
Picasso, home sweet home
Málaga, 08/02/11 The artist taking a bath, working in his underpants or even dressed as a clown. The project for Picasso at work. Through the lens of David Douglas Duncan shows a very intimate view of the Spaniard. Sincere and shameless, it is simply the image of a man that produces art works because it makes him happy. The photojournalist Duncan met Picasso...
‘Dressing’ gardens with colour
Madrid, 08/01/11 "The mission of art is to be eternal, to have its own language". This is how Orensanz determines the importance of past art movements in his work in a contemporary envionrment. The exterior spaces of the Museo del Traje transform its gardens into the ‘surface’ of the project Paradigma. The exhibition consists of three structures situated on the...