The meter, the kilogram and the second are three of the seven basic units of the International System, adopted in its entirety only in 1971, and from which all other physical units can be derived. They draw our relationship to the world and structure [...]
Carlos Sagrera on Patterns: ‘In 2012 I found photos of my grandparents house from the 70’s, the images showing the empty rooms of the house they were about to move in to. After they passed away these images motivated me to start a series of [...]
Bringing together nearly 150 works, this retrospective traces the technical and stylistic evolution of the artist. Miró creates from his dreams and opens the door to his poetic universe. Miró transformed the world around him with an apparent simplicity of means, whether a symbol, [...]
The exhibition will present works of 17 renowned contemporary Spanish artists: Ángel Mateo Charris, Marcelo Fuentes, Dis Berlin, Damián Flores, Carlos García Alix, Paco de la Torre, Teresa Tomás, Joël Mestre, Roberto Mollá, Jorge Tarazona, Fernando Martín Godoy, Elena Goñi, Juan Cuéllar, Guillermo Peñalver Fernández, [...]
Sixe Paredes is a full-time artist. He lives as he works. Absorbed by Andean and Pre-columbian cultures, inspired by the cosmos, by Universe-Earth connexions and by Human-animal connexions. His colored, symbolic, abstract or figurative work, is painted, weaved, created in ceramic when he spends [...]
This is Mallo’s first exhibition in New York since 1948, and presents a selection of works produced in both Spain and Latin America. Born in rural Galicia, Spain in 1902, Mallo moved to Madrid in 1922 to receive art training. She quickly became a [...]
Francisco López's "Hyper-Rainforest" is an amazing variety of field recordings composed into a "concert-installation" that, unfortunately, raises all sorts of uncomfortable questions about culture and appropriation. Lopez, a sound artist and experimental composer, has recorded sounds of rain forests from around the world for [...]
Invoice es una instalación de vídeo donde tres cantantes interpretan una adaptación del canto gregoriano O Virgo Splendens, sustituyendo el texto original por la enumeración de las facturas emitidas durante el proceso de realización de la obra. Un rasgo distintivo del canto gregoriano es el escaso [...]
SCAN is pleased to announce, Several Times Twice, a solo project by Fermín Jiménez Landa as part of Frieze week. Fermín Jiménez Landa's work shifts unpredictably between artist's actions, interventions in the public realm, videos, installations or drawings. His work involves a minimum intervention of reality, [...]
“Intriguing uncertainties” highlights the significance of the narrative in contemporary art that focus on singular socio-cultural constellations as well as specific and situational meanings, based on anthropological considerations. The realm of darkness, chaos and fear is part of our anthropological reality and it is the artist’s role to [...]
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 [...]
Lluis Lleó (Barcelona, 1961) who has lived in New York since 1989, is an artist who moves with identical ease between painting and sculpture, making his work especially difficult to catalogue. His recent works are neither sculptural paintings nor painted sculptures: they are works [...]
Palacios’ new work is not only focused on the already-inflicted violent action of the hurters. His new, more richly textured, almost sculptural paintings, stand as an invitation to the potential helpers who can actually do something about it. In his “Set Me Free” series, [...]
Joan Fontcuberta is an internationally acclaimed artist from Barcelona. A wide range of writings as well as curatorial and lecturing activities accompanies his prolific artistic practice. Since the start of his career in the mid-80s, his highly conceptual works have been imbued with ambiguity [...]
As a space for critical reflection on design established in a historically rich context, the Istanbul Design Biennial offers the opportunity to question the very production and replication of design and its education. In 2018, the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial builds on the legacy [...]
Night Currents is the first individual exhibition of Spanish artist Javier Pérez in Belgium which is part of his most recent production, including sculptures, drawings and photography. With a particular cyclical view of time, in which life and death are only two stages within [...]
In 1966, Antoni Tàpies (1923–2012) began writing his memoirs. Motivated by his need to embrace militancy as a political strategy, he undertook a review of his personal biography and his career as an artist, a project that was completed in 1977 with the publication [...]
The exhibition, which is Elespe’s fourth solo exhibition mounted by the gallery is the most comprehensive exhibition to date in New York of the artist’s work featuring over twenty works across different mediums. The exhibition debuts Elespe’s largest paintings and places his paintings, drawings, [...]
”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 [...]
Daniel García Andújar (1966,Almoradi, Spain) is a central figure in the Spanish internet art scene. Since the late 80s he has been starting up internet projects, he is a founding member of the irational.org web collective, and developed Technologies To The People® (TTTP), a non-profit organization that [...]
‘Extra States: Nations in Liquidation’ brings together artists whose works aim to critically address, recompose or bypass the traditional readings of the state. How do we think of “the state” in contemporary society? How much agency and effect do “extra state” power structures have, [...]
"Stillleben" is a specific installation for the exhibition space at the Tête project in Prenzlauer Berg. In this room, despite its decadent appearance, the beauty of the city from other times is still visible. It is one of the few spaces in Berlin that [...]
In the past three decades, sound art has been consolidated as a new artistic category, giving way to the development of specific types of research, monographic exhibitions and specialized bibliography. Listening with the eyes. Sound art in Spain, curated by José Iges and José Luis Maire, [...]
The United Soya Republic presents a journey through the heartlands of the Southern Cone’s agribusiness; it is a portrayal of the changes to the landscape and socio-economic tissue brought about by intensive farming and the exportation of produce in Argentina and Paraguay. Jordi Ruiz Cirera has [...]
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 [...]
The honey bee — we know about its important role as a useful insect and pollinator, but equally as a biological indicator of environmental change. The disproportionally significant part it plays in ecosystems is becoming better known, not least because it is under threat. [...]
Pablo Picasso jammed plenty of creativity into his 91-year life, including paintings, sculptures, prints, ceramics, stage design, plays, poetry and more. During the 1930s, he also etched and engraved a set of 100 pieces, in a series that was named after the art dealer [...]
Jaume Plensa ( b.Barcelona 1955) produces large-scale sculptures and installations that use language, history, literature and psychology to draw attention to the barriers that separate and divide humanity. In Talking Continents, Plensa used stainless steel to create a floating archipelago of 19 cloud-like shapes. The [...]
Since its inception, Paris La Défense has been a cultural territory that is unique in the world. Beyond its skyscrapers and globally renowned architecture, it’s a real open-air museum that will see the installation, just for the summer, of a contemporary art exhibit both [...]
Night is sublime, day is beautiful. Immanuel Kant The Gravity of Place is a project made during an artist’s residency at Domaine de Kerguéhennec in Brittany. Kerguéhennec is a contemporary art centre that has over thirty sculptures installed in its surrounding landscape. The place, [...]
“Véase ibíd.” refers us to the thing immediately previous and invites us to look attentively at it. Maybe it's something that we just observed on the street, or something we were thinking about a minute ago, before arriving at the gallery. Ibíd. seems to tell us: the [...]
In Hexagons, Gema Álava's first solo exhibition at Maus Contemporary, the Spanish-born, New York-based artist presents incredibly subtle and beautiful commentaries on gender, power, movement, and the crowd mind. Exhibiting mixed-media paintings — works built and layered from a palette of materials including, in part, [...]
Coincidingwith the retrospective organised by Jean-Louis Prat at the Grand Palais in Paris, Galerie Lelong & Co is presenting a selection of works on paper from two decades (1930-1950), a period where the artist’s work reached its full expression. The bilingual exhibition catalogue (French [...]
A meeting of two souls linked through time and space : Ernst Fuchs (1930-2015) and Beatriz Moreno (1971). Two artists who never met in real life – neither of them knew of the existence of the other, however… Could it be part of an [...]
Antonio Ballester Moreno (Madrid, Spain, 1977) approaches his curatorial project for the 33rd Bienal de São Paulo as a way of contextualising a universe based in the close relationship between biology and culture, with references to the history of abstraction and its interplay with [...]
Research undertaken upon the Meadows’ 2014 acquisition of Salvador Dalí’s painting The Fish Man (L’homme poisson, 1930) opened doors to areas within Dalí’s 1930s oeuvre worthy of further study; foremost among them, Dalí’s propensity for painting on a small scale. Dalí: Poetics of the Small, 1929-1936 is the first exhibition [...]
The gallery 100 Kubik shows as the highlight of the year for the first time the works of the artist Daniel Verbis (*1968, León). His paintings, part of important collections, are surprising and unforgettable. He has a very individual way to express his universe, [...]
The exhibition offers the general public a great opportunity to become acquainted for the first time with the history of cubism, one of the most important trends in 20th century art (1907–1923). British art historian John Golding wrote in a monograph that cubism is [...]
