'Dreams of Nature': the symbolist landscape
Amsterdam, 02/28/12 Dreams of Nature is the first exhibition devoted to the Symbolist landscape in Europe. A total of 70 evocative and poetic works exhibited in the Van Gogh museum, offering a varied sample of the Symbolist movement ranging from its origins to the abstraction. Masterpieces by Van Gogh, Kandinsky, Gauguin, Munch and Mondrian, set out for the first...
Roig´s Verblendungszusammenhang
La Coruña, 02/24/12 Astonishing installations, sculptures of light, grand paintings and breath-taking video pieces show an itinerary, which without following a chronological order, establishes thematic relationships and looks into the underlying obsessions of the prolific artist. The showing, currently being exposed in La Coruña, collects pieces of work ranging...
'Print / Out': contemporary printmaking at MoMA
New York, 02/22/12 Large-scale installations, series and participatory projects by Thomas Schϋtte, SUPERFLEX and Rirkrit Tiravanija, among others, shown these days in Print / Out, the new exhibition at MoMA in order to examine the multiple roles played by the art of printmaking in contemporary art practices. A media that today, despite centuries of tradition,...
The Prado's Gioconda causes excitement among the public
Madrid, 02/21/12 A new celebrity has arrived to the Prado Museum. At least, this is what it seemed this morning when ‘her’ presence has caused excitement among the public. "I have managed to photograph 'her', the image is a little moved but it does not matter", said a young Italian woman while she walked away from the tumult of flashes, cameras and phones. The...
Odilon Redon: between the disturbing and the sacred
Madrid, 02/20/12 Odilon Redon (Bordeaux, 1840 - Paris, 1916) was an artist in the margins. Painter of the subconscious and dreams, he shared the same scenario with the Impressionists – which he exhibited in 1886 - but not his aesthetic interests. The exhibitionpresented these days in Madrid, curated by Dr. Rodolphe Rapetti, at the headquarters of the Foundation...
Aleksandr Sokurov’s film exhibition
Barcelona, 02/17/12 Aleksandr Sokurov (Podorvikha, Siberia 1951) is the kind of filmmaker who has naturalized the presence of cinema in museums; precisely these works which are set out in Barcelona, stand as a symbol of this new film exhibition. Therefore, it is a great opportunity to get closer to the history of Post-soviet Russia, which is shown by this...
Abraham Lacalle: "Spend a million dollars in culture is better than to spend it on a Ferrari"
Madrid, 02/16/12 Painting on cases of champagne. This is the latest work Abraham Lacalle (Almería, 1962) has been shown at ARCO 2012. This is a charity project that has the support of the Maison Ruinart, it aims to raise money for the Art Fashion Institute Foundation. The artist has been inspired by the iconic Champagne 'Blanc de Blancs' of the French house to...
Lyonel Feininger. 'From Manhattan to Bauhaus'
Montréal, 02/16/12 Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) was a man of multiple talents – illustrator, painter, printmaker, photographer, musician and composer - and today, for the first time after more than six decades, he is portrayed in perspective at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Montréal. The famous cartoonist, representative artist of Expressionism with Paul Klee and...
XXVI Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris
Madrid, 02/14/12 Once again the professionals of antiquarian industry in France gather to celebrate his Biennale in Paris. This year's fair will feature about 150 exhibitors - expanding supply over previous editions –, which will occupy the great hall of the Grand Palais and the Hall of Honor, which reopened for the occasion after his closure in 1940, and a...
ARCO returns to Madrid with ambition
Madrid, 02/13/12 ARCO Madrid presents its thirty first edition demonstrating its permanent spirit of renovation. This year we count with the participation of 215 galleries from 29 countries. The works of approximately 3000 artists will be displayed to the public in sectors 8 and 10 within the showground. The following attended the ceremony of presentation:...
Warhol, Baldessari or Hearing, ‘shamans’ of the society
Madrid, 02/13/12 Sometimes 25 dollars are enough to start a collection. Don and Mera Rubell are the example that everyone could adquire works of art without a great fortune. All you need is to create a monthly Budget –no matters if it is too small– and visit hundreds of galleries. This is how this American marriage began to collect in 1964, when they acquired...
BRAFA'12 takes the pulse of the market
Brussels, 02/13/12 Bernard De Leye, president of the BRAFA, is a congratulated man. A new visitor record, 46,096, and optimistic sales results similar to the previous edition, marking the good balance of the fair. Professionals, collectors and journalists across Europe, waiting expectantly for this balance to find out the pulse of the art market in 2012 and, in...
'Three x Three'. Drawings for tone recovering
Madrid, 02/08/12 Jorge Pineda, Karina Beltrán and Rodrigo, they have in common the exhibition Happy: Three x Three presented today in Madrid. Drawings "to recover the tone", whose affinity lies in the figurative character of them all, offering a unique insight while drawing kaleidoscopic today. Three divergent artistic careers for an overview of the complex and...
The universe 'senza fine' of Euprepio Padula
Madrid, 02/08/12 No limits, no boundaries. This is how Euprepio Padula understands the work of art, specially the paintings. "It must exceed human limits," says the artist. Maybe this is the reason why his last production exhibited at Casa del Reloj in Matadero have the title “Senza Fine”, because it transcends all technical, stylistic and even economic...
Thyssen museum celebrates his 20 years with an extensive program
Madrid, 02/07/12 The Thyssen-Bornemisza museum is 20 years old, it was opened on October 8, 1992, and now is a consolodated museum consolidated. To celebrate this anniversary, the museum organizes an extensive program of activities which begins with what we have dubbed 'Exchanging gazes': regularly works from his collection to gather in a room and "give the...
Turner and the challenge of the elements
Margate, 02/07/12 Margate and the north coast of Kent are among the common scenarios chosen by Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851). Perhaps for this reason, the context for this exhibition seems superb, because the paintings of the great master painting are due to a perception of the landscape and the elements that overwhelms the senses and requires the...
The Prado's Gioconda, a copy by Leonardo's workshop
Madrid, 02/01/12 A copy of Mona Lisa housed in the Prado Museum was made in Leonardo's studio. At least this is the conclusion reached by the experts of the Spanish museum after restoring the work. Apparently, while the Florentine master was giving the finishing touches to his masterpiece, one of his disciples (probably Francesco Melzi) was doing the same on...
Ten 'fantasy portraits' by Giandomenico Tiepolo
Madrid, 02/01/12 The headquarters of fundación Juan March in Madrid present an small format exhibition with ten oils by the Venetian painter, which have never been exposed. Giandomenico Tiepolo (Venice 1727-1804) came to Madrid with his brother Lorenzo and his father Giambattista, accompanying the great master after receiving the comittment of painting the dome...
New narratives of contemporary art
Bilbao, 02/01/12 Last Monday was presented in Bilbao The inverted mirror: art from the collections of the Fundación "la Caixa" and the MACBA, with the presence of Juan Ignacio Vidarte - director of the Guggenheim Bilbao museum –, Elisa Durán -deputy director of La Caixa Foundation, Bartomeu Marí - director of the MACBA – and the curator, Álvaro Rodríguez...