The most beautiful small museum in the world
March Foundation. Madrid. Until June 30th.
An excellent selection from the collection of the Museum of Spanish Abstract Art of Cuenca, caused by the partial closure of its facilities in 2022. The Cuenca center, inaugurated in 1966 in the Casas Colgantes by Fernando Zóbel, was one of the first contemporary art museums in Spain. The museum had a great international echo. Alfred H. Barr, first director of the MoMA in New York, dedicated to him the compliment that gives the exhibition its title. More information here.
Susana Solano
Espais Volart. Barcelona. Until July 14th.
An exhibition in Barcelona reviews four decades of work by the Catalan artist, highly recognized in the eighties and nineties. In his time, Solano’s participation in the Documenta or the Venice Biennale confirmed the rise of a new sculpture close to the object, or what Benjamin H. Buchloh called in his day “constructed sculpture” in opposition to materials and conventions. of the figurative. More information in this review by Bea Espejo.
Val del Omar. A Technique with a capital T
C3A. Cordova. Until September 1st.
The Córdoba center provides another perspective on the filmmaker: he was not an isolated creator, but part of a constellation that outlined an alternative modernity during the Franco regime. It is the largest since the retrospective that the Reina Sofía dedicated in 2011 to this unclassifiable character who called himself cinematist, as well as an inventor, theorist, poet and technical experimenter. More information in this review by Bea Espejo.
The deserted festivals
Count Duke. Madrid. Until July 21.
From Ana Laura Aláez to Paco Chanivet, eight contemporary artists contact ghosts and spectral entities from the past, present and future through light, sound and matter. The works are powerful and the Conde Duque underground that houses them contributes to an ideal atmosphere, in a miraculous balance between experience and contemplation. More information in this review by Juan Gallego Benot.
Matisse: l’atelier rouge
Louis Vuitton Foundation. Paris. Until September 9.
An exhibition in Paris investigates the history of The red workshop, the 1911 painting that led the French painter to break with figuration. Misunderstood and ridiculed in its time, today it is considered a pioneering work for its red monochrome ahead of its time, which freed painting from its narrative function and its obligatory representation of reality, abolished in the name of a still unconscious abstraction. More information in this article by Álex Vicente.
And also:
- hidden Spain, the book by Cristina García-Rodero that marked a milestone in Spanish photography, is republished 35 years after its publication. It arrives with the addition of unpublished images and an exhibition at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid.
- Chillida’s sculptures return home 20 years later. The central exhibition on the occasion of the centenary of the Basque sculptor shows iconic pieces from the eighties, property of the Telefónica Foundation, which return to the Hernani workshop-museum, where they were conceived. At the same time, the Hauser & Wirth gallery in Illa del Rei (Menorca) presents Chillida in Menorca. The sculptures and the pre-existing space constitute a total work of art.
- In the same gallery, Roni Horn, one of the great names in current American art, stars in her own exhibition. The artist moves through minimalism and conceptual art, jumping smoothly from sculpture to photography, from literature to installations.
- Meanwhile, a living legend like Esther Ferrer, pioneering artist of the performanceis in good shape at 86 years old at the presentation of an exhibition with some of his works at the Center del Carme in Valencia.
- In Euskadi, more than twenty exhibitions celebrate the most unknown facets of the multifaceted artist Néstor Basterretxea on the centenary of his birth. Known for his work as a sculptor, in his extensive career of more than six decades he covered practices such as design and architecture, as the Museum of Fine Arts of Bilbao recalls.
- Manila shawls and colonial exploitation. This is what Stephanie Comilang’s exhibition at the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid offers. The sample In search of life formulates a critique through objects and animals: from butterflies that are born from silkworms to manila shawls.
- In Barcelona, the Fundació Vila Casas offers a lesson in “metaphysical anatomy” by the Argentine artist Patricio Reig, whose career straddles photography, literature and alchemy.
- When painting is haute couture: The work of John Singer Sargent is also a history of fashion. An exhibition at the Tate Britain in London explores the great American portrait painter’s interest in the attire of his models and displays 50 paintings along with the dresses that inspired them.
- 150 years of impressionism: the painting outcasts that changed the history of art. France celebrates the anniversary of the movement with an exhibition at the Orsay Museum, which recalls the first exhibition organized in 1874 by these marginal artists who, opposed to dominant academicism, wanted to paint modern life.
- Giacometti and Sugimoto, life and death on stage. An exhibition at the former’s Paris foundation establishes a fruitful dialogue between the work of the Swiss sculptor and the Japanese photographer through a staging that pays tribute to Noh theatre.
- Paris also displays the great restored works that were saved from the Notre Dame fire. An exhibition displays the paintings that will be returned to the temple upon its reopening on December 8 alongside contemporary designs of the liturgical objects that succumbed to the 2019 fire.
- Peter Hujar, portraits of life and death. An exhibitionon brings together in Venice the intimate portraits of some of the components of the New York bohemia of the seventies together with the disturbing images taken by the American photographer in the catacombs of Palermo.
- A celebration “of the immigrant, the foreigner, the ‘queer’ and the indigenous”: all the excluded take power in the new Venice Biennale. The great event of contemporary art celebrates marginal identities with a groundbreaking (and contested) edition in which names from the global south, many of them unknown, are the majority.
- In New York, the new Whitney Biennial has just begun: a crude reflection of art on the latest social change. The new edition of this biennial, the oldest in America, reviews, not always with subtlety, the works of emerging authors who deal with topics such as gender fluidity, minorities or the crisis of the planet.
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