'Gesture and Irony' come together in Zaragoza
Zaragoza, 10/31/11 The exhibition, on display until January 29, is a selection of 50 paintings and sculptures from the collection "De Pictura", which is a reference to know the past century Spanish art. A visual dialogue between two special trends in Spain reached in the second half of last century: the Spanish derivation to abstraction and pop art of clear...
The measurement of time. Timepieces of the Spanish Kings
Madrid, 10/28/11 It is known that, to decorate their palaces and as a diversion, Felipe V became a collector of clock pieces. Their descendants, Fernando VI, Carlos III and Carlos IV, followed his passion and collected clocks which are now at Patrimonio Nacional. About seven hundred pieces, considered as one of the most important and valuable collection in the...
Rediscovering the past: the 'Mexican Suitcase'
Barcelona, 10/26/11 Suitcases were invented for one and simple purpose: storing objects to be transported in a trip. But this particular case is special. Not only has traveled with their content in the distance, but also in time, over more than seven decades, to come back now and show the original negatives of the Spanish Civil War by the hands of the great...
Miniatures and small portraits in the Prado
Madrid, 10/25/11 For the first time, the Prado Museum displays a representative – thirty-six miniatures and three small portraits- of the 180 pieces in his collection. This is the most important set of this genre preserved among Spanish museums. Works painted in gouache on vellum and paper or ivory tablets, which represent the most intimate facet of...
A straight to the evasion of Miró
Barcelona, 10/21/11 This is the most important exhibition of Joan Miró in Spain over the last twenty years. The exhibition features more than 170 works - paintings, sculptures and works on paper – from public and private collections worldwide, and has been jointly organized by the Tate Modern and the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (sponsored by the Fundación...
Moneo spread of abstraction
Madrid, 10/20/11 Rafael Moneo wants to remain faithful to the university museum collections. If the works that comprise fleeing figuration, he will try to do the same with the building. The Navarrese architect has deliberately looking for an harmony between content and container when projecting the future museum that will show the collector Maria Josefa...
'All Goya throbbed around me'
Madrid, 10/19/11 Eugène Delacroix (1798-1863) questioned the need to paint the subject in reference to its very foundations. Apart from its great historical compositions, the excitement generated by their canvases is enough to elevate material values - light, color, materials - over the subject represented. To publicize this image of a revolutionary artist...
'Aleksandr Deineka (1899-1969). A vanguard of the proletariat '
Madrid, 10/18/11 The exhibition is a complete retrospective – the third after the 1982 groundbreaking shows in Düsseldorf and the most recent meeting in Rome – ; the most comprehensive outside Russia dedicated to the figure of Deineka. There are 80 oil paintings, photographs, works on paper, posters and magazines for a total of 250 pieces, to show the double...
Dirk Braeckman or the power of a camera shot
Leuven, 10/17/11 When Dirk Braeckman began working with his camera the only thing he captured was a body: his own body. Analog images were then revealed in his own darkroom. Three decades later, the Belgian author turned to digital imaging, with which he constantly experiments: light, focus and textures. M Museum Leuven presents an exhibition that includes...
Frieze, it's just bananas
London, 10/13/11 (Continued from 'Frieze, it's just bananas') Frieze is probably the most adequate venue for museum and foundation acquisitions. Jackie Wullschlager from the Financial Times accompanied the Tate Gallery in its autumn shopping spree. With a conservative fund of 120.000 pounds, Frances Morris, tate curator and Nicholas Serota, director of the...
Frieze, it's just bananas
London, 10/13/11 The VIP inauguration of one of the most acclaimed dates in the Contemporary art scene unfolded without a hitch. Flooded by surrealism and abstraction, the fair seemed to be heavely influenced by the works it exhibited. While Moody's, Standard & Poors and Goldman& Sachs devaluated once more the growth expectancies of six European Union...
Jenaro Pérez Villaamil and the 'España artística y monumental'
Madrid, 10/13/11 In addition to his promoter facet and the role of artistic director of the ambitious España artística y monumental, Jenaro Pérez Villaamil (1807-1854) was the author of many of the preparatory drawings for the lithographs that illustrated the edition. The exhibition presented today at Museo Lázaro Galdiano in Madrid, allow us to know the set of...
Serra-Brancusi: a dialogue for the future
Bilbao, 10/11/11 The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents until April 15, 2012, the Brancusi-Serra exhibition, glancing only the development of modern sculpture over more than a century. A dialogue between two of the greatest sculptors of the twentieth century, Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) and Richard Serra (1938), by Oliver Wick, curator of the Fondation...
Brancusi-Serra: a dialogue on the origins
Bilbao, 10/11/11 [... continued from previous article]Constantin Brancusi was born in Hobita (Romania) in 1876 and is considered one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century. In his youth he worked as a waiter and apprentice carpenter before enrolling in the School of Arts and Crafts in Craiova (Romania). In 1904, he moved to Paris on a...
The Tradition according to Picasso
New York, 10/07/11 Drawing was the main medium of creation for Pablo Picasso. In retrospect, through this it is possible to get access to the invention of his formal language and intuit the early form of his series of paintings, sculptures, engravings and ceramics. Picasso's Drawings, 1890-1921: Reinventing Tradition presents at the Frick Collection a...
Jodice turns Prado's spectator into a work of art
Madrid, 10/06/11 How is Velazquez's public? What does the audience feel upon contemplating a work by Goya? Who visits Van der Weyden in the room 58? These are some of the questions Francesco Jodice asks himself before he creates his Spectaculum Spectatoris, an initiative that tries to establish a dialogue between the historical artistic herietage and the human...
In the kingdom of Alexander the Great
Paris, 10/05/11 An exhibition at the Musée du Louvre with 500 works re-enacts the story of the ancient Macedonians from the fifteenth century BC until the Roman Empire. A total time of splendor. It is organized by the Greek Ministry of Culture and the Museum of Louvre.It begins with a copy of a mosaic made of river stones, as the ancient technique,...
The Surreal Apostolate: Dalí, Miró, Magritte ...
Basel, 10/04/11 Special guests such as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte and Joan Miró, and the loan outstanding masterpieces of the movement that are usually guarded jealously in the MetMuseum, the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice. These are the strongest assets of the sexhibition Dalí, Magritte, Miró. Surrealismus in Paris which...
Connections 02: 'A message for Anabel' by Juan Carlos Bracho
Madrid, 10/03/11 It is second exhibition of this series – always linked to the drawing in all its manifestations –, where artists are invited to develop an exhibition, the project takes as its starting point the choice of a couple of works: one of the Santander Collection and another of the museum's ABC. From the first we chose the portrait of the founder of...