Suzanne Valadon. A modern epic
MNAC. Barcelona. Until September 1st.
An emblematic figure of the Paris of the avant-garde, the great artist (and mother of the painter Maurice Utrillo) stars in an excellent retrospective at the Barcelona museum, the first to take place in Spain. Co-produced with the Center Pompidou-Metz, the exhibition brings together a hundred works by a painter, draftsman and engraver overshadowed by her contemporaries, but whom time has placed in the place she deserves. More information in this review by Enrique Andrés Ruiz.
James Lee Byars. Perfect is the question
Velázquez Palace. Madrid. Until September 1st.
Located between minimalism and the conceptual, and between corporality and mysticism, the American artist signed works that speak of the ephemeral, but aspire to the eternal. Curated by Vicente Todolí for the Reina Sofía Museum branch in Madrid’s Retiro, the exhibition evokes, with introspective serenity, the silent theatricality of his work. More information in this review by Javier Montes.
Suburbia
CCCB. Barcelona. Until 8 September.
It is one of the exhibitions of the season in Barcelona and proposes a cultural history of the American dream through the utopian project that was the residential neighborhoods on the outskirts of large cities, successfully exported to the rest of the world and a matrix of multiple reflections in the literature and in art. A promise of well-being and social ascension that hid, despite appearances, a dark side. More information in this review by Jorge Dioni.
Caspar David Friedrich. infinite landscapes
Alte Nationalgalerie. Berlin. Until the 4th of August.
The celebration of the 250th anniversary of the romantic painter continues with this exhibition in Berlin, focused on the relationship between man and the landscape, almost always a mirror of the passage of time in his work. Some of his best-known paintings, such as The Monk by the Sea or The Sea of Ice, are part of a journey that aims to unravel his creative process. More information in this article by Elena G. Sevillano.
Nan Goldin: Sisters, Saints, Sibyls
Welsh Chapel. London. Until June 30th.
Last days to visit Goldin’s new installation in a church in central London, dedicated to his sister Barbara, who took her own life at the age of 18. Through three screens that spit out images of her from her childhood and adolescence, until the months before her suicide, the photographer reflects on family relationships, human fragility and the long shadow of mourning for a loved one. More information, here.
And also:
- An exhibition in Barcelona reviews four decades of work by Susana Solano, 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 sculpture closer to the object, or what the art historian Benjamin H. Buchloh called in his day “constructed sculpture” in opposition to the conventions of figuration.
- The C3A of Córdoba provides another look at Val del Omar: 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 was baptized cinematistas well as an inventor, theorist, poet and technical experimenter.
- The ghosts visit Conde Duque. 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 underground of the Madrid center that houses them contributes to an ideal atmosphere, in a miraculous balance between experience and contemplation.
- Eva Lootz, triple. Living in Spain since 1967, the 84-year-old Viennese maintains an astonishing level of activity. Two new exhibitions in Madrid and one in San Sebastián, after those she recently starred in in Valladolid and Barcelona, confirm this.
- The Asunción Molinos Gordo projects reflect on peasant thought, heritage, agriculture or climate change. With Déjà vécu, at CA2M (Móstoles) until the end of August, has created “an allegory of diversity as a future.”
- The political Agustín Ibarrola and the one of nature are mentioned in two exhibitions in Madrid. The José de la Mano and Lucía Mendoza galleries program exhibitions that cover the great periods of the Basque artist: that of activism during the dictatorship and his subsequent fusion with the environment.
- In Valencia, a living legend like Esther Ferrer, pioneering artist of performanceappears in good shape at the age of 86 at the presentation of an exhibition with some of his works at the Center del Carme.
- This exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris investigates the history of The red workshop, the 1911 painting that led Matisse to break with figuration. Misunderstood and ridiculed in its day, today it is considered a pioneering work for its red monochrome that was 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.
- Lynda Benglis circulates between solid and liquid to make an allegory about the role of water in the life of the planet. The work of this pioneer is exhibited for the first time in Madrid. Four of its monumental fountains can be seen in the Banca March Garden, usually closed to the public, on weekends during the remainder of the month.
- Nazi looting is on display in Austrian museums. Hitler’s unfathomable legacy as a looter of works is the subject of three simultaneous exhibitions in Austria, which commemorate the art stolen by the Nazi regime in occupied Europe.
- An intimate tour of the manuscripts, letters, photographs and favorite objects of the most important Colombian poet of the 20th century. The National Library of Bogotá inaugurates the exhibition María Mercedes Carranza, the job of dressingwhich can be visited until September.
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