Spanish Contemporary Art Worldwide
SEOUL. Eva Armisén “Life” 27 june – 20 september 2020. Sejong Museum of Art.
“Life” is a solo exhibition by contemporary Spanish artist Eva Armisén whose paintings, drawings, and etchings have the capacity to transform each day into a unique occasion. Eva Armisén brings something that goes almost beyond definition: an affirmation of life that vetoes any form[...]
MADRID. Concha Jerez “Our Memory is Being Stolen” 29 july 2020 – 11 january 2021. Museo Reina Sofía.
Concha Jerez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1941) studied Music and Political Science before fully undertaking her artistic practice under the label of conceptual art in the early 1970s, a period in which she would produce drawings and collages, often basing her work on[...]
MADRID. Álvaro Urbano “The Awakening” 1 july 2020 – 10 january 2021. La casa encendida.
Like a strange dream that seems to go on forever, The Awakening reanimates a building whose life appears to have expired long ago. Through an immersive installation comprised of fragments that make up the body of a building, a forgotten edifice is reactivated to provoke speculative[...]
AIX-EN-PROVENCE. Rubén Martín De Lucas “Inhabiting the earth” 18 june – 27 september 2020. Gallifet Centr d´Art.
Trained as a civil engineer and with an outstanding career as an urban artist, Rubén Martín de Lucas (Madrid, 1977) has directed his latest works towards a research focus that, under the heading Landscape and associated behavior, refects on the emergence of problems derived[...]
TOKYO“Picasso The Writer”16 june – 30 september 2020. Instituto Cervantes.
The exhibition highlights how the great exponent of modern art was able to use pencil and ink in a highly original way, painting words and transforming them into pictograms that tell us about his world and memories. It features examples of facsimiles, photographs and[...]
CLEVELAND. “Picasso and Paper” From 22 september 2020. The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Picasso didn’t just draw on paper – he tore it, burnt it, and made it three-dimensional. From studies for ‘Guernica’ to a 4.8-metre-wide collage, this exhibition brings together more than 300 works on paper spanning the artist’s 80-year career. For Picasso, paper was both[...]