José Manuel Ballester (Madrid, 1960), painter and photographer, started his artistic career as a painter, paying particular attention to the techniques used by the Italian and Flemish schools. To begin with, his painting was realistic, but he soon started using a more personal, minimalist [...]
Holi is the festival of color that is celebrated throughout India and which commemorates the beginning of spring, the ending of the harvest as well as the triumph of good against evil. The young throw around powders of different colors to wish each other [...]
The show brings together a selection of thirty works developed over the course of four decades and gathers paintings, collages and drawings. This is the gallery’s eleventh exhibition dedicated to Esteban Vicente, an artist who is intimately related to Elvira González. Born in Turégano, [...]
Max Estrella is pleased to present Nacho Martin Silva’s (Madrid, 1977) most recent work. Titled Woodworm in Lumber, this is his first exhibition at the gallery after joining Max Estrella’s roster. Three large-format paintings work as the show’s central axis and serve as a narrative [...]
On 11 September 2001, the Spanish artist based in New York Elena del Rivero, was in Madrid preparing her forthcoming inauguration when she saw the Twin Towers collapse on the television. While she watched the clouds of dust, she imagined that her studio (located [...]
The Museo Reina Sofía stages a retrospective survey of the work of artist Miguel Ángel Campano (Madrid, 1948 – Cercedilla, Madrid, 2018) by way of a selection in excess of one hundred works made from 1972 onwards. The show, the last exhibition project in [...]
It is easy to forget that seeing is a learned response, and that sight is something we develop from looking at the world. Likewise, we project our thoughts, concepts, identities, and aspirations onto the world. This is the transaction between images and what they [...]
Beyond the documentary photography of architecture and industry, and asserting the dilution factor and transmutation of reality that is associated with the photographic representation, Aitor Ortiz works with space, architecture and object as starting elements to a number of visual and cognitive unknowns. His [...]
Lucía Vallejo was born in Bilbao in 1975. Sculptor and art historian. Her artwork is related to the decomposition movement in painting, it expands and liberates the linen's materiality recovering this fabric's expressive potential. Painting loses its two-dimensional condition to become a 3d object. She [...]
Olga Khokhlova was born to a colonel in 1891, in Nijin, a Ukrainian town located within the Russian Empire. In 1912, she entered the prestigious and innovative Russian Ballet directed by Serge Diaghilev. It was in Rome, spring 1917, where she met Pablo Picasso [...]
Exhibition Rubén Rodrigo The Light and the Fury is Rubén Rodrigo's rst solo exhibition (Salamanca, 1980) at the Fernando Pradilla Gallery. With such a suggestive statement and creating a paraphrase of the original title in English of William Faulkner's novel "The Sound and the [...]
This exhibition will gather a series of works that analyse the dystopian aspects and consequences of the architectural currents that progressed through Europe starting in the 1950s. In a difficult post-war context and with the ideas from the modern movement stagnated after achieving an [...]
With The Incised Shadow, the Fundación ENAIRE presents the most recent and one of the most ambitious projects by Javier Vallhonrat, winner of the 1st Fundación ENAIRE Trajectory Award. This exhibition is the result of over 10 years of fieldwork at the Maladeta Glacier in the [...]
Paula Anta is an artist with a deep sensitivity that she usually expresses through photography; landscape photographs in which she intervenes, creating a link between the natural and the artificial, a very subtle alteration of the landscape that starts with the natural materials: stone, [...]
Since the beginning of his artistic career in the 1980s, Rogelio López Cuenca (Nerja, 1959) has worked at the crossroads between the visual arts and the mass media. Taking writing off the page, he has exercised his own visual poetry that operates inside the [...]
Exhibition dedicated to Cristina de Middel, National Photography Award 2017, which brings together three of her photographic projects: Jan Mayen, Cucurrucucú y Aleatoris Vulgaris. Cristina de Middel (b.Alicante, Spain 1975) is a photographer whose work investigates photography’s ambiguous relationship to truth. Blending documentary and [...]
For the second time Daniel Verbis (León, 1968) is exhibiting at the Pilar Serra Gallery, this time presenting his work ‘Cross-Dressing’. According to Verbis, in art when some things masquerade as others, the unexplainable is being materialised, or in other words, the fact that [...]
The Museo Reina Sofía presents an exhibition by film-maker Albert Serra (Banyoles, Gerona, 1975), featuring his latest audiovisual work and framed inside the Fissures programme, set up to support contemporary artistic production. Defined by critics as an unflinching artist who remains at a distance [...]
The exhibition will have 29 new works of which fifteen are canvases, twelve are works on paper and two ceramics. All these works have been made in the past two years and will be shown to the public for the first time. Life of [...]
This exhibition coincides with the two shows that he currently has in the two most emblematic museums in our country: one at the MACBA in Barcelona and the other at the Reina Sofia Museum in the Glass Palace in the Retiro Park in Madrid, [...]
Fontcuberta attempts to salvage the remains of the photographic substance from the ruins, an element to which we attribute the alchemical power of retaining life, whilst evading the call of death. With ridiculous arrogance, we humans boast of using the camera to beat time [...]
Throughout his career as a sculptor, Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955) has drawn on spirituality, the body and collective memory as the primary sources which tie together his visual artwork. Literature, psychology, biology, language and history become strategic tools in the creation of his work, [...]
Throughout history, museums have provided inspiration for artists who have gone to contemplate and study the works of their predecessors on display, sometimes to follow their teachings and occasionally to challenge them. In both cases, the dialogue between the artists of the past and [...]
Madrilenian artist Luis Úrculo (1978) presents this September at Max Estrella his second solo exhibition ‘Paisajes intuidos pt. 2’, a journey around the architecture of what we do not see when visiting an archaeological site. Just as in criminology and astronomy, there are always [...]
”A beaver’s DNA doesn’t stop expressing itself at the end of its whiskers, but at the edge of its dam,” writes the ecological theorist Timothy Morton. What if the physics of entropy was sliding between humans and objects through pure inertia? What if an [...]
The exhibition will have 34 black and white photographs. In this new show, we see how the decontextualization of the image of the photographed object provides a new meaning, which in itself has a new meaning for each viewer. Chema Madoz (Madrid, 1958) began [...]
Alberto Schommer, Carlos Pérez Siquier, Gabriel Cualladó, Gonzalo Juanes, Joan Colom, Julio Ubiña, Leopoldo Pomés, Oriol Maspons, Francisco Gómez, Francisco Ontañon, Ramón Masats, Ricard Terré, Xavier Miserachs. The collective of photographers which operated under the name AFAL Group hailed from the publication AFAL, a magazine specialised [...]
Imprimatur speaks of the construction of our cultural heritage, about books, about pictorial imagery, and about the knowledge and vicissitudes of their transmission. The exhibition is articulated around two video projections: a conversation between Francisco de Goya and the businessman Martín Zapater, and the trial [...]
When the borders are underscored the time has come to ask what is it that is so valuable that it allows no mixture. Amongst the multiple and tendentious definitions of nation, country or homeland, we seem to juggle with notions that go beyond the [...]
The Museo Reina Sofía presents a retrospective on Eusebio Sempere (Onil, Alicante, 1923–1985), one of the foremost figures in twentieth-century Spanish art who shared the platforms and ideas of Kinetic Art and whose work was set apart through its light- and colour-based poetics. “It’s [...]
Isabel Muñoz, National Photography Award 2016, presents in Tabacalera a selection of 97 photographs and six video installations about the photo works more representatives of her actual production. The Anthropology of Feelings is the title of the exhibition curated by Audrey Hoareau and François [...]
Is My Body Public is a new art work and fashion collection created by Alicia Framis (b. Barcelona 1967) For this work Framis has designed a new collection of dresses in which she explores the borders of that which is private and that which [...]
The exhibition Dora García. Second Time Around centres on the artist Dora García (Valladolid, 1965), embarking on an open journey around a broad array of her works in diverse formats and mediums — film, performance, texts, drawings — and punctuating some of the constants running through her [...]
Attempting to go through any work by Nano 4814 (Vigo, 1978) involves delving into a hole-like shape––a space appearing laconically before us and dragging us toward the joys of synesthesia, where we know full well that one or another of our senses may undergo [...]
MADRID. Ignacio Uriarte “Tipología de dibujo escultórico” Galería Nogueras Blanchard 21 enero – 18 marzo, 2017 En esta nueva exposición Ignacio Uriarte acentúa el carácter más poético de su trabajo a través de la exploración de distintos gestos comunes, como la aleatoriedad de doblar hojas, [...]
