Spanish Contemporary Art Worldwide
MOUGINS. Isabel Muñoz “1001” 3 july – 3 october 2021. The Mougins Center of Photography
1001 gathers thirty-eight prints and four videos, resulting from several trips to Japan between 2017 and 2020. Largely unpublished, Muñoz’s photos offer us multiple portraits, all of which preserve a trace rooted in Japanese alternative culture, mingling respect and transcendence of tradition. A striking[...]
BREMEN. Mateo Maté “Landscape Europe 2020 – 21” 27 august – 31 october 2021. Weserburg Museum.
Mateo Maté (* 1964, lives in Madrid) is considered one of the most famous Spanish artists of his generation. In his installations and video works everyday objects and routines are linked to socially relevant issues, mixing up the private and the public, the political[...]
SOMERSET. “Eduardo Chillida“ 20 june 2021 – 3 january 2022. Hauser & Wirth Gallery.
One of the foremost Spanish sculptors of the twentieth century, Eduardo Chillida (1924 – 2002) is widely celebrated for his monumental public sculptures and enduring fascination with interconnected shape, space and organic form. Chillida challenged the constraints of materials such as iron and steel[...]
MILAN. Núria Mora “J.L. vs Lilla” 15 june – 24 september 2021. Galleria Patricia Armocida.
Nuria Mora’s visual language is strictly connected to her ability to observe the surrounding space, whether it is an urban or natural landscape, capturing and isolating details that she synthesizes in abstract-concrete chromatic modules and expanding in constantly evolving motives. It is a geometric[...]
KÖLN. Lidia Masllorens “Esto no es un retrato” 28 may – 6 august 2021. 100 Kubik Galerie.
Lidia Masllorens (*1967, Girona) is an artist with high recognition value, especially through her large-format facial images, with which she transports us into a world of feelings and details. Expressivity is the most important thing for her and her direct brushstroke resembles Japanese calligraphy[...]
NEW YORK. Juan Uslé “Horizontal Light” 21 may – 2 july 2021. Lelong Gallery.
Over a four-decade career, Uslé has established a distinctive pictorial grammar; gestural brushstrokes systematically applied in tandem with his heartbeat to convey a poetic-fluid landscape. Dividing his time between Spain and New York City since the 1980s, Uslé’s practice has engaged with the various movements[...]