Posted in paris on Jan 27th, 2012
Until the 26th of February, the exhibition ‘Cézanne et Paris’ will be open at the Musée du Luxembourg. The exhibition is organized with the collaboration of the Petit Palais and the Fine Arts Museum of the City of Paris. it gathers close to 80 works that come from different collections from around the world to [...]
Posted in berlin on Dec 29th, 2011
‘Divided Heaven. 1945-1968. The Collection. is one of the most interesting exhibitions at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin of a peak period of history in Germany and the world, where art is influenced by the accumulation of consecutive events that would change the world’s geopolitical physiognomy. This exhibition is the continuation of a project that in [...]
Posted in madrid on Dec 27th, 2011
The need to revise classic painting today serves as a trail to understand how the outlooks that we had and have articulate still on some key political factors, especially understanding that the work and its processes are already paused, or even, frozen in the matter of the object, which don’t have more to give unless [...]
Posted in paris on Oct 17th, 2011
Today’s art matter is more embodied than ever. There isn’t a place on earth where, at this very instant, there isn’t a new piece of art being manufactured without any exact purposes, without knowledge, without shape or probably just an immaterial work, which exists without being and without having been. What’s curious is that, many [...]
Posted in paris on Oct 11th, 2011
The marasmus of the contemporary art does not end. Festivals, biennials, contests, residencies and master’s programs continue to grow, and become an immense business for the organizers. The boundaries between the gallery, museum and businesses continue to disappear. What will happen to art in fifty years from now? The radical nature of the artistic proposals [...]
Posted in barcelona on Sep 29th, 2011
In June of this year, the European Modern Art Museum opened its doors with the mission of opening a space for contemporary artists that make figurative art. The opening was made with the inauguration of the exhibition ’20th Century Contemporary Art’ and its original collections: ’20th Century Modern Sculpture’ and ’20th Century Catalan Sculpture’, that [...]
Posted in barcelona on May 18th, 2011
Until the 17th of July, CCCB is holding La Trieste de Magris, as part of the Las Ciudades y sus escritores (The Cities and their writers) series, which started a few years ago. The show, which is sponsored by Gas Natural Fenosa, invites us to discover the city of Trieste through the work of Italian [...]
Posted in barcelona on Apr 8th, 2011
The MNAC in Barcelona is for the first time showing some of the key works of Gustave Courbet, with exhibition Realismo(s). La huella de Courbet, on between 8th April-10th July. The exhibition compiles around 80 works, including paintings, drawings, and photographs, and was commissioned by Cristina Mendoza, sub-director of collections at MNAC; Mercè Doñate, head [...]
Posted in madrid on Jan 28th, 2011
Gérôme was born in Vesoul in 1824. He is a classic representative of the French academic formalism. His works of clean, perfect lines with a huge technical quality, made Parisian bourgeoisie and aristocracy go crazy for him in the nineteenth-century. They saw art as a mere expression of beauty and perfection to serve the needs [...]
Posted in barcelona on Jan 12th, 2011
A*Desk is an initiative by a group of art experts mainly in the area of theory and critic that has had an interesting story so far. Three of the co-founders are the Catalans Montse Badia (today director of the collection for contemporary art Cal Cego), Marti Manen (curator and art critic) and David G Torres [...]
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