Essence of another time
Seville, 04/26/12 The Institute of Culture and Arts of Seville (ICAS) presents in the Santa Clara Space the "visions" of Spain by billionaire Archer Milton Huntington (1870-1955). Funds belonging to the archives of the Hispanic Society of America in New York, which is one of the largest photographic libraries dedicated to the traditional culture of Spain – from...
Bindings for the Court
Madrid, 04/23/12 Patrimonio Nacional presents Great Bindings from the Royal Libraries (XV-XXI century) in the Royal Palace, a unique exhibition that includes 457 pieces from the Royal Collections, 80% of which have never been exhibited before. From the origins of the Royal Libraries to the last winners of the Queen Sofia Ibero-American Poetry Prize, the...
'From oblique gaze to visual narrative'
Barcelona, 04/19/12 Curated by Juan Naranjo, the exhibition Joaquim Gomis: From oblique gaze to visual narrative presents a selection of 200 photographs of one of the most interesting and less known facets of the production of the Catalonian photographer. Born in Barcelona in 1902, Joaquim Gomis is recognized as one of the renovators of the visual language of...
A drawing lesson by Murillo
Santander, 04/17/12 These daysthe Cantabrian capital holds a major exhibition devoted to drawings by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), curated by Manuela Mena, Chief Curator of eighteenth century Painting and Goya department in the Prado Museum. The Botin Foundation, organizer of the exhibition and underwriter of the recently published catalogue of drawings...
Nantes, a 'poetic' and 'artistic' trip
Madrid, 04/17/12 Marathon exhibitions, artistic epidemic, dispersed monument... There are many adjectives to describe the initiative 'Le Voyage à Nantes' but the objective is clear and simple: to promote the cultural tourism in the city. Artists such as Roman Signer, Huang Yong Ping or Maurizio Cattelan are involved in this project, which plans to hold...
ALMONEDA 2012
Madrid, 04/16/12 For over a week – from 14 to 22 April -, a total of 131 exhibitors from Spain and abroad gather at ALMONEDA 2012 Art Fair held at the Feria de Madrid. According to the organization nearly 25,000 antiques - pieces must be at least half a century – where visitors can find decorative arts, paintings, sculptures, archaeological pieces and all...
'The Boy in the Red Vest' is found in Belgrede
Belgrede, 04/13/12 The episode is worthy of a detective story. Cézanne's painting -The Boy in the Red Vest-, that was stolen in an armed robbery at a gallery in Zurich, has been recovered in Belgrade, after a long investigation. Police from several countries and special prosecutors against organized crime have been tracking this painting for more than three...
Amondarain's thoughts on 'Guernica'
Vitoria, 04/12/12 José Ramón Amondarain's Tiempo y Urgencia (Guernica) is the result of extensive research on the limits of representation. This is an installation entitled Urgencia in which the artist divides into eight stages, eight large canvases, the creation process of Picasso's painting, based on the photographs that Dora Maar took in order to document the...
The false twilight of the last pharaohs
Paris, 04/11/12 Politics and art have gone hand in hand in ancient Egypt after the Ramesside era. The city was invaded by Kushites, Persians, Macedonians and Romans and was ruled by kings or black Libyan pharaohs. But its art did not wane. It maintained its prestige. Since the last Ramesses to Cleopatra, the three main reasons of the pharaonic period: man,...
'Cataluña 1400': the splendor of the Gothic
Barcelona, 04/09/12 Catalunya 1400. El Gòtic Internacional covers the splendor period of Gothic art in Catalonia from the end of the fourteenth century to the mid-fifteenth century. This chapter of the catalonian period is characterized by the culmination of a process of assimilation and synthesis between modernity from northern France and the Netherlands and art...
The 'face wash' of Toulouse-Lautrec
Albi, 04/03/12 Toulouse-Lautrec rejuvenates. The building that houses the largest collection in the world of works by the post-impressionist author has undergone a 'face wash' that has lasted more than a decade. The result has been the redesign of the museum entrance, the improvement of the access to their rooms, new stores and even elevators. It is...
The Titanic 'dropped anchor' in the shipyards of Belfast
Belfast, 04/02/12 The Titanic rises again on the shipyard where was built. Majestic, raises its bow in the sky over the city between the cranes of Harland & Wolff. The ship does not navigate the Irish Sea anymore, nor has passengers. But now it has visitors. It is the newly Titanic Belfast, a center that borns with the same ambition, prospects of success and...
A total Avant-Garde
Madrid, 04/02/12 Starting from the premise of arts as an "applied" regarding to their roles in society – votive, propaganda, portraits, historical... -, the Juan March Foundation in Madrid features an exhibition about some movements born in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesthat enshrined the autonomy of art and its "application" to all...