Dressed and nude. Insistent and introvert. As models and as themselves. Curvy and jagged. Observing and sleeping. Over the course of seven decades, the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) depicted the female form as a colourful metamorphosis; always full of yearning and steely will, [...]
This is the thirteenth edition of Video Auteur Festival FLUX, characterized from the beginning by focusing the protagonism in the authors linked to Barcelona working in the field of video creation (video art, documentary, video installations, etc.). In this edition of the festival the [...]
The exhibition of the Basque artist Susana Reberdito shows a contrast between two of her series: on the one hand the completely new series of sculptural still lifes and on the other the spectacular and sonorous paintings of the series Meeresrauschen. The vitality of [...]
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 [...]
“Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not” Pablo Picasso In celebration of Pace’s fifth anniversary in Palo Alto, the gallery is pleased to present a chronological survey of Pablo Picasso. The first ever [...]
Laura Iniesta was born in Barcelona in 1955, she also had her first exhibition in 1979 in the same city. Then she lived for 10 years in Ecuador and Colombia. Her artistic work spans more than four decades with exhibitions in the USA, Chile, [...]
The starting point of the group exhibition Double Wall of Silence is a field of tension between the spoken and the unspoken, between the muted and the forgotten, between the individual and the collective. Migration as a dominant theme in recent years has sparked discussions about [...]
The exhibition of Les Abattoirs in Toulouse Picasso and the exile. returned to the painful period of the Spanish War, the establishment of the dictatorship and the massive exodus it brought (la Retirada). The exhibition in the Majorat focuses on artistic, musical and cinematographic phenomena that [...]
This year’s Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition is about Dr Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad. It is about how sexual violence has been, and still is, used as a weapon of war worldwide. –The violence itself is in many cases so overwhelming that it’s hard [...]
Within the scope of the exhibition Walking Through Walls that marks the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most symbolic events of the 20th century, interrogating the experience of vulnerability and anxiety caused by power structures that thrive on confinement [...]
Jaume Plensa, born in Barcelona in 1955, is concerned principally with “the interplay between spirit and matter, not mere form”. In his multifaceted sculptural work he poetically dissolves the physical body and converts the intangible into concrete forms. Thus he achieves a poetic intensification [...]
Pictures are representations. In other words; Pictures represent something and show this something in a certain way. This basic realization can be an important point when looking at works by the Spanish artist duo Cabello/Carceller. Helena Cabello and Ana Carceller have been working together [...]
Formas e ilusiones, o cómo la forma juega con nuestra percepción, nos engaña y nos sorprende. Los artistas en exhibición no solo juegan con las formas de arte clásico y desafían el espacio de exhibición. También están jugando con nuestros ojos. Okuda rompe nuestra [...]
José Maria Cano launched his career as a musician and composer, most notably as a member of the best-selling Spanish pop band Mecano. For the past 20 years, he has devoted himself exclusively to painting and has gained acclaim for his meticulous and visually [...]
Aires makes an statement with this exhibition’s title against the self-imposed pressure on artists who create in search of originality or those who end up seeing their art turned into a product whose value is solely imposed by the market. Thus, the strategy of [...]
In this edition, the 14th, the Curitiba Biennial of Contemporary Art is made under the concept of "open borders", showing how the word "border" can have several meanings and how art has always been involved in that concept. With the presence of other countries artworks and its representatives, it will be possible to [...]
Javier Abella was born in Madrid in 1971. He’s one of the artists of greater creative production in the field of urban photography. He began his career in the field of advertising and in the late 90s he entered the world of artistic photography. [...]
Antonio Saura, like Picasso, makes of the figure of the woman less a theme of predilection than a field of research. From 1954 on he envisages her as the mother form—the matrix—as a mould out of which form will emerge, as a breast that [...]
In this exhibition, Juan Miguel Palacios investigates "the skin of the hedgehog". ‘I take a tour of some of the works, in my opinion the most important of the last three years. Like the skin of a hedgehog I wanted to create an uncomfortable [...]
A notable group of works by Aurèlia Muñoz (Barcelona, 1926-2011) will be entering the Museu Nacional, which will enable us to see the diversity and the originality of her techniques and the coherence and intensity of her poetics. The artist’s family has donated seven [...]
Lucía Vallejo was born in Bilbao in 1975. Sculptor and art historian. Her artwork is regularly exhibited in galleries and international art fairs like ARCO, Art Cologne or Pulse New York, ZONAMACO, among others. She has worked with Maior art gallery for a decade, and with Distrito4 [...]
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, [...]
“The new 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 [...]
