Posted in Barcelona on Oct 27th, 2011
Robert Capa is art, photography and history, and all this comes together in a major exhibition that is ongoing at the National Museum of Catalan Art. This is La Maleta Mexicana, a collection of negatives, which Capa abandoned in Paris in 1939, about the Spanish Civil War. The exhibition, curated by Cynthia Young, is co-organized [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Sep 12th, 2011
Until the 23rd of October, the Contemporary Art Museum of Barcelona, MACBA,(http://www.macba.cat/controller.php), gives us the chance to explore the work made by Àngels Ribé from the late 60s until the mid 80s as part of the interest and strong desire of the institution to recover important but, usually, relatively unknown aspects of the production of [...]
Posted in Barcelona on Aug 23rd, 2011
L’Arxiu Fotogràfic of Barcelona exhibits a selection of photographic works by Jacques Léonard entitled Barcelona Gypsy. In the framework of the exhibition, which will be on display until the 14th of January 2012, the documentary Jacques Léonard, el payo Chac, directed by Yago Léonard and produced by Curt Ficcions Pruduccions, will be also presented at [...]
Posted in Berlin on Aug 8th, 2011
A deluxe exhibition is what’s taking place until August 29th in the Bauhaus Archives in Berlin on the photographic work of Albert Renger-Patzsch, based on images of the Fagus factory. The exhibition is titled The Modern Eye, and it’s looking to outline the aesthetic concept crafted by the Bauhaus director Walter Gropius as well as [...]
Posted in Madrid on Jul 28th, 2011
Until the 11th of September, the ICO Foundation is showing “The Power of Doubt,” a collection of specially created photographic installations. The ICO Collections Museum, centred around contemporary art, in particular photography and architecture, has devised this exhibition in order to showcase a new global vanguard, different to that which arose during the Cold War, [...]
Posted in Madrid on Jul 11th, 2011
By 1877 the infamous Austrian collector von Theodor Graf was involuntary the cause of the total revolution in the world of arts and contemporary sensibility, when he introduced in Europe and America, a series of portraits of Roman Egypt made between the first and fourth centuries of Christian era. They were fine paintings made on [...]
Posted in Madrid on Jun 29th, 2011
Now it almost seems as if those years had never existed, but there was a time when a spirit of revolution shook the world. This revolution was soon betrayed by its leaders – people who were revolutionaries because they wanted to give orders rather than receive them, not because they genuinely believed in a world [...]
Posted in Berlin on Jun 22nd, 2011
W.G Sebald, (Wertach im Allgäu, Baviera, 1944) who died tragically and prematurely death in December 2001 in a car accident in England, where he had lived and taught at European Literature at the University of East Anglia since 1970, was probably one of the most fascinating European writers of the second half of the 20th [...]
Posted in Barcelona on May 17th, 2011
Photo Colectania Foundation presents for the first time in Barcelona the famous series Women Are Beautiful by Garry Winogrand. The exhibition which runs until the 4th of June, consists of 85 portraits of women taken by Winogrand between 1960 and 1975 that represent the social transformations of that decade that articulate women’s emancipation. Garry Winogrand [...]
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 [...]
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