The body is the message in PhotoEspaña

The XVI International Photography Festival focuses on the human figure through 74 exhibitions in six Spanish cities

Madrid, 05/15/13 The sixteenth edition of PhotoEspaña focuses on the body. Ricardo Mosquera, curator of the International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, leave his post with this proposal about the human phisic. "The body as Eros and Ades, as love and politics, as a purpose to obtain a message", according Mosquera, will gain all glances between June 5...
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The 'Disparates' by Goya inspire modern follies

The Diocesan Museum of Barcelona proposes a dialogue between the painter's etchings and the works of twenty artists who follow his trail

Barcelona, 05/10/13 There are 'follies' that will never go away, like war. A reality that Francisco de Goya reflected in his latest series engraved, the same reality that Juan Manuel Broto presents in the work on view at the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona. He and other twenty artists have been inspired by the Spanish author's Disparates to present the current issues...
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Emilio Serrano redraws Córdoba through his work

The Cerralbo Museum exhibits 16 drawings in an exhibition organized by the Ministry of Culture and the Provincial Council of the artist's city

Madrid, 05/09/13 A piece of Cordova seems to be present at the Cerralbo Museum, thanks to Emilio Serrano's work. Painter, printmaker and draftsman, this author used his hometown as his muse, 'she' was his source of inspiration for more than 40 years. During these years, he immortalized melancholic women, abandoned children, still lifes and everyday scenes of...
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Poetry, deliriums and suggestions of Dalí

The Reina Sofia Museum presents the artist's work in a retrospective with over 200 works, documents and manuscripts

Madrid, 04/26/13 He was the only one who could boast of getting up every morning and feel a supreme pleasure: being Salvador Dalí. A great painter, provocateur, histrionic and paranoid that investigated the reality and the unconscious with the same insolence with which he dissected the eye in Un Chien Andalou. His oniric compositions, his fragmented figures and...
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Rubens-Titian, good partners

The Museo del Prado presents the restoration of the copy of Adam and Eve of Titian by Rubens with the support of Fundación Iberdrola

Madrid, 04/18/13 The dialogue between Rubens and Titian is back in the news board of the Museo del Prado after the restoration of Adam and Eve and its new location. Both masters are reunited in the Central Gallery of Villanueva building (room 25), allowing visitors to understand the admiration of the Flemish painter for Venetian art from a laborious process of...
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Madrid-Modena-New York

The Portrait of Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena, by Diego Velézquez leaves the Galleria Estense and travels to Manhattan until July 14

New York, 04/17/13 Francesco I d'Este (1610-1658) went to the court of Philip IV in Madrid in autumn 1638. The reason for his visit was to seal the financial covenant alliance culminating between Modena and Spain. During his stay, he was lodged in the new royal residence, the Palace of Buen Retiro, and entertained with multiple acts and awards such as the Order...
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Body & Soul exposed

The Museo Gas Natural Fenosa de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) presents the photographer Larry Fink, one of the apostles of black & white

A Coruña, 04/12/13 Born in Brooklyn (New York) in 1941, photographer Larry Fink is a fully Yorker. A "Marxist from Long Island" – as defined himself - whose creative hallmark has been the use of flash and the development and black bench that illuminates the parts of "Body & Soul" that remain in penumbra. This is the most interesting aspect of the exhibition Larry...
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Ivan Lendl exhibits his collection of posters by Mucha

150 illustrations by the Czech artist belonging to the legendary tennis player are exhibited for the first time at the Municipal House in Prague

Prague, 04/10/13 He was the number one the tennis courts and also in buying posters by Alfons Mucha. Ivan Lendl, the leader of the ATP during the eighties and eternal rival of John McEnroe, acquired over 150 posters, calendars and decorative panels by the famous Czech painter. Lendl has managed to do the biggest collection of Mucha's illustrations. Now, all...
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The African journey of Ortiz Echagüe

The complete set of photographs taken during his stay in North Africa – between 1909-1916 – is presented at MNAC

Barcelona, 04/09/13   Jose Ortiz Echagüe (Guadalajara, 1886 - Madrid, 1980) is one of the key figures of the Spanish photography in t XXth century. A photographer that demostrated an anthropologist's eye throughout his career with a unique perception of the types and customs portrayed by its camera. His African tour between 1909-1916 allowed him to turn his...
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A dream 'in film'

CaixaForum Barcelona offers a journey into the fascinating world of Méliès, one of the most important artists in the history of cinema

Barcelona, 04/08/13   «Movies have the power to capture dreams.» The gap between theory and practice is the real milestone of these words by Georges Méliès (1861-1938). To materialize the dreams and turn them into movies, Méliès used magic and illusionism to creat a new art technique for fictional film in a time when cinema was still in its first steps and was...
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Laugh together with the old masters

Frans Hals challenges the greatest artists of its century in an exhibition featuring his portraits and laughing figures

Haarlem, 04/03/13   Under Frans Hals Year 2013 programming, the Dutch museum that bears his name has presented Eye to Eye with Rembrandt, Rubens and Titian, an exhibition of some of the masterpieces of Antwerp painter along with works by some of his predecessors as Titian, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck and Jordaens. The purpose of this comparison is to...
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The Music Lesson by Antoine Watteau

The Bozar presents the role of music in Watteau's work as a key player in the party and foreplay gallant eighteenth

Brussels, 04/02/13 Music is one of the constants in the work of Antoine Watteau (1684-1721). Musicians, characters from the commedia dell'arte and young lovers share a stage setting as distinctive as the music itself like one of the inherent aspects of French artist aesthetics. His musical courtship led to an entire subgenre that prevailed throughout the...
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The educational legacy of Paul Klee

The Juan March Foundation presents its second exhibition of the Swiss artist focusing on his work as a teacher at the Bauhaus

Madrid, 03/22/13 Paul Klee: Bauhaus professor is the result of a collaboration between the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and the SNF Nationalfonds Schweizerischer culminating in the complete critical edition of pedagogical legacy Klee (1879-1940), a 3900 handwritten pages which picked up his job as a professor at the Bauhaus-after five years of research. A project...
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The indelible trail of the Spanish Line

The Prado Museum presents a selection of the best drawings by the Spanish masters preserved in the collections of the British Museum

Madrid, 03/20/13 "Drawing is discovery", says the painter and art critic John Peter Berger. Discover shapes, volumes, shadows, gestures and movements. For that reason, a lot of artists use drawing as a prelude to their final works or as a reference model. Alonso Berruguete, for example, drew a figure of the Assumption to be copied by his pupils in the workshop....
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The Rebellion of Modern Art

Guggenheim Museum Bilbao illustrates the Nazi occupation through 500 works by artists who made "war on war"  

Bilbao, 03/19/13 Can the war inspire artists? Is it possible to keep creativity alive despite the shots? These are some of the questions the exhibition L'Art en Guerre suggests the public. More than 500 pieces by 100 authors  -some of them well-known and other completely anonymous- bombard the viewer's retina passing from French academicism to Surrealists...
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The simple reality

The sublime humility of still lifes by 'el Labrador' uncovered in a monographic exhibition at Museo Nacional del Prado

Madrid, 03/11/13 The Prado Museum has collected 11 of the 13 paintings known by Juan Fernández el Labrador in the first monographic exhibition dedicated to the artist, and curated by Ángel Aterido. An small format exhibition that facilitates the approach to one of the most unfamiliar painters of the first half of the seventeenth century in Spain. We only know...
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Lawrence Weiner, sculptor of words

The MACBA exhibits over 300 drawings and personal notebooks by the artist in an exhibition entitled 'Written on the Wind'

Barcelona, 03/08/13 Drawing is the closest, immediate and sincere work made by an artist. It is the graphic expression of a thought, the original idea that becomes a prelude to the final artwork. Although it is not the case of Lawrence Weiner. Perhaps because he does not believe in the work of art, at least not as a physical object. From his point of view,...
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Rule & Capriccio

The Uffizi present an exhibition on the work of Spanish artists in Italy during the first Mannerism (1500-1520)

Florence, 03/06/13 «Thus I also say that no nation and no people (other than one or two Spaniards) can perfectly assimilate or imitate the Italian manner of painting (which is that of ancient Greece) without being immediately and easily recognised as foreigners, however much they may try or work at it». These words, spoken by Michelangelo Buonarroti and recorded...
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The irony as a weapon against intolerance

The Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo shows Halil Altindere's work, a political committed Turkish artist

Madrid, 03/06/13 Astronauts on horseback, executives surfing in an ironing board, carpets that simulate dirt fields... The scenes exhibited at the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo seem absurd and nonsense, however, all of them contain a social meaning. Subjects such as marginalization, inequality between people and sexes or the repressive power are present in his...
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The colorist imagination of Federico Barocci

The genius, Mannerist and hypochondriac, of Urbino's painter is shown in all its splendor at The National Gallery

London, 03/04/13   The National Gallery presents the first major monographic exhibition, dedicated to the art of Federico Barocci (Urbino, 1535 - 1612). The display assembles the majority of Barocci’s greatest altarpieces and paintings, together with sequences of dazzling preparatory drawings, allowing visitors to understand how each picture evolved. Barocci:...
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Schwitters in Britain

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London, 02/28/13
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The ARCO effect

Low expectations provided unexpected joy upon the close of the fair 

Madrid , 02/18/13 The more than 200 galleries that participated in ARCO considered sales went better than expected. This is what the media is repeating over and over again. But what does this really mean if expectations were so low? The second newsflash echoed by exhibitors, specially Spanish galleries, is the rise of the cultural VAT to 21 %. Even though the...
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Tara Donovan, the alchemist sculptor

The Louisiana Modern Art museum presents an exhibition on this artist, who experiments with materials she reuses and transforms 

02/18/13 Lo que primero sorprende, y tal vez llame más la atención en la obra de Tara Donovan son los materiales que emplea. Experimenta con cualquiera de ellos hasta descubrir de qué otra forma los puede reutilizar. Posee una peculiar sensibilidad para dar con las cualidades que tienen, más allá de las usos normales para los que fueron creados. Le...
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'Masters of chaos'

An exhibition at CaixaForum Madrid on the concept of disorder through anthropological pieces and works by contemporary artists

Madrid, 02/18/13   Masters of Chaos: Artists and Shamans reflects the struggle between order and chaos as an anthropological pillar for different cultures. The exhibition is conceived as a rite of passage that leads from the sacred to the profane from three major themes - the chaos in the world, the realm of chaos and catharsis –, explaining the main myths...
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Everything is false ... unless something

The Círculo de Bellas Artes presents an exhibition about one of the great fakers of recent Art History

Madrid, 02/15/13 Elmyr de Hory. Project Fake brings us a closer view to the life and work of Hungarian artist who placed nearly a thousand works in museums and collections around the world in the 50s and 60s of the last century. Under the signatures of Picasso, Matisse, Van Dongen, Modigliani or Degas, De Hory built a vast fraud in which the alleged...
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ARCOmadrid 2013 is digitized

The International Contemporary Art Fair inaugurates a virtual platform that offers 500 works for prices under € 5,000

Madrid, 02/14/13 ARCOmadrid is trying to reinvent itself. A couple of years ago, the fair reduced the number of participating galleries; afterwards, organizers extended the opening days only for professionals and later, they opted for emerging galleries with 'Opening'. Now the fair takes advantage of new technologies and sells art online. ARCO Collect on line...
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Doubts over Siloé's authorship of the enthroned Virgin

The Prado analyzes the work, donated by Várez Fisa, which is identical to the one in the charterhouse of Miraflores

Madrid , 02/12/13   Experts and curators in the Museo del Prado will analyze if the sculpture Enthroned Virgin with Child is by Gil de Siloé. This piece is one of the twelve, dated between the twelve and fifteenth century, that the Várez Fisa family has just donated to the Spanish gallery. Doubts concerning its authorship have been layed out, according to El...
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Muriel Salem: "The Art Market has become a great glamorous party"

The owner of the Cranford Collection presents at Sala de Arte Santander a selection of 92 works in an exhibition entitled Out of the house

Madrid, 02/11/13 Born in Beirut but English by choise, Muriel Salem has the typical British attitude. But after five minutes, her spontaneity betrays her. She has just arrived to Sala de Arte Santander (Madrid) but she walks around the corridors as if it were her own home. And in a way it is. Many of the works that are usually exhibited at her home in London,...
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El Prado buys a French primitive

The museum pays 850,000 euros for an early fifteenth century panel attributed to Colart de Laon 

Madrid , 02/11/13   Scarcely a year ago, the owners of a panel- a French family settled in Spain-, decided to sell it. They contacted the auction house Sotheby's, who, upon realizing the value of the piece, deposited it in the Prado for its study and possible future purchase.  They are frequent, and more so in Spain, Flemish primitives or Hispano-Flemish. But...
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'Forest of Light'

José Manuel Ballester presents his latest work at Espacio Promoción de las Artes of the Ministry of Culture in Tabacalera

Madrid, 02/08/13 Forest of Light is the title of the exhibition that Ballester, National Photography Prize 2010, presented in Tabacalera with 50 works that represent the main series undertaken by the artist in the last eight years. As a painter and photographer, his work has focused on the interpretation of architectural space, time and perception of light in...
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The metaphorical journey by Cristina Iglesias

Metonymy condenses at Reina Sofia Museum the artist's trajectory over the last 30 years through fifty works

Madrid, 02/06/13 "Awakening the senses". That is what Cristina Iglesias wants to provoke with each of her sculptures, whether lattices, sloping ceilings or underwater sculptures. The artist, that was born in San Sebastián, has been playing with matter over the last three decades. She has constructed metaphors that incite the public to see, touch and explore her...
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Fisa Várez donates 12 Medieval and Renaissance works to Prado Museum

The name of the businessman will be present at the museum in a gallery with all paintings and sculptures donated

Madrid, 01/30/13 The Prado Museum has 12 new works. The businessman Jose Luis Várez Fisa and his wife Maria Milagros Benegas donated last Tuesday nine paintings, two sculptures and a carved wooden ceiling from their private collection. At the moment, The Virgin of Tobed is the only work that it is exhibited at the museum, but in a few months, all pieces donated...
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