Commissioned by the art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard, Pablo Picasso made one hundred etchings between 13 September 1930 and March 1937, which passed into the history of art under the name Suite Vollard. The set of 100 etchings appeared in 1939 in two [...]
Reading is one of the most exquisite pleasures there is, an act which produces different effects in each reader, caused by the story which the book’s author sends. Well, to contemplate a book is to say, “Reading the visual and looking at the textual”, establishes [...]
In an article about Franz Mesmer, the Austrian physiologist who claimed he could cure ailments through channelling “animal magnetism,” writer Christopher Turner says that “The Lyonnais Mesmerists purported that their patients could see their own insides when in somnambulistic trances, and thereby make uncannily accurate self-diagnoses .” [...]
TIERGARTEN. Garden of beasts. A GERMAN ROMANTIC GARDEN. I started this project as I do almost all of them, without knowing where it would take me. I discovered Tiergarten, and then it became clear that I wanted to return, that I wanted to keep taking photos. [...]
"Interventions: About the Public and the Private” is a project specifically conceived by Antoni Muntadas for the Serralves Villa in 1992. Composed of twenty-one brass elements, each containing the designation of the corresponding space at the Villa when it was inhabited and a photograph [...]
“Joan Miró and the Death of Painting” focuses on works of the year 1973 when the eighty-year old artist was preparing for an important retrospective at the Grand Palais in Paris. In a series of slashed and punctured canvases of 29 March 1973, woven [...]
The exhibition "Os Sonhos de Helena" presents a set of illustrations based on the texts of the book by the Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano and also some figurative objects - sculptures of resin and wood - also by Isidro Ferrer. This initiative is the [...]
“Josep Maynou’s work is bound to curious storytelling – moments lost in translation and chance experiences, both real and imagined. From textiles and sculpture to drawings and video, each piece tells a witty tale of social exchange. On his journeys across Europe, North Africa [...]
