PhotoEspaña 2015

PhotoEspaña 2015 Photographic exhibitions in venues across Spain (including Madrid, Alcala de Henares, Cuenca and Zaragoza), from June to September 2015. In its 18th year it is focusing on Latin American photography. The programme includes, in Madrid (Galería EspacioFoto): Miguel Bergasa: Miradas en Latinoamerica (3 June – 31 July), 28 photos taken between 1983-2013 inContinue reading “PhotoEspaña 2015”

Exhibition: Rosario Weiss, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid

Drawings by Rosario Weiss from the Lazaro Collection, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid  14 May – 29 June 2015 Exhibiting some 36 drawings (from a collection of 58) by the goddaughter and follower of Goya, who learned her drawing and lithographic print-making skills alongside Goya in the 1820s in Madrid and Bordeaux. Her miniature portraits andContinue reading “Exhibition: Rosario Weiss, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid”

Exhibition: Vicente Carducho, Madrid, May – September 2016

  Vicente Carducho: teoría y práctica del dibujo en el Siglo de Oro, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, 29 May – 6 September 2015. Major exhibition of drawings, many never shown before, by Vicente Carducho (Florence 1576-1638 Madrid), a key artist at the Spanish court. Accompanied by contextualizing documents and prints by Carducho’s contemporaries drawnContinue reading “Exhibition: Vicente Carducho, Madrid, May – September 2016”

New book on the Spanish Royal Wallpaper Factory

The Spanish Royal Wallpaper Factory was the last 18th century royal factory to be created (under Carlos III), yet was almost entirely forgotten. Read all about it in this new publication: Isadora Rose-de Viejo, La Real Fábrica de Papeles Pintados de Madrid (1786-1836): Arte, artesanía, industria. Madrid (Ediciones Cátedra-Grandes Temas núm. 64), 2015, 258 págs.,Continue reading “New book on the Spanish Royal Wallpaper Factory”

First Durham-Northumbria Colloquium on Medieval and Golden Age Hispanic Studies, 9-10 July 2015

First Durham-Northumbria Colloquium on Medieval and Golden Age Hispanic Studies Primer Coloquio de Estudios Hispánicos Medievales y del Siglo de Oro (Universidades de Durham y de Northumbria) Registration is now open. Venue: Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne), Sutherland Building Date: 9-10 July 2015 Programme: 2015-06-FirstDurhamNorthumbria MedievalGoldenAgeProgramme    

ARTES Visit to the Barber Institute & the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery – Mon 6 July 2015

ARTES Visit to Birmingham The Barber Institute of Art & The Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (BMAG) Monday 6 July 2015 11.00 – 16.30 pm This visit is at the kind invitation of Robert Wenley of the Barber Institute who will introduce the key Spanish works. Helen Hillyard, National Gallery Curatorial Trainee at the BMAG, willContinue reading “ARTES Visit to the Barber Institute & the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery – Mon 6 July 2015”

ARTES Visit – Exhibition – El Greco at the National Gallery – 18 June 2015

ARTES Members Private Visit The National Gallery London  El Greco at the National Gallery Thursday 18 June 2015 8.50 am – 10.00 am (meeting at West Entrance) This visit is at the kind invitation of Curator Letizia Treves of the National Gallery will be talking about the El Greco display. She will be joined byContinue reading “ARTES Visit – Exhibition – El Greco at the National Gallery – 18 June 2015”

Genaro Pérez Villaamil, Madrid

Exhibition: Views of Historic Monuments in Spanish Cities: The Romantic Painter Genaro Pérez Villaamil (Vistas monumentales de ciudades españolas. El pintor romántico Genaro Pérez Villaamil) Room 60 Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid 17 December 2014 – 6 September 2015 Curated by Javier Barón, this exhibition includes Villaamil’s large Diptych, formed from 42 individual scenes painted on tin-platesContinue reading “Genaro Pérez Villaamil, Madrid”

Juan Muñoz, Milan

Exhibition: Juan Muñoz (1953-2001): Double Bind and Around Hangar Bicocca, Milan 9 April – 23 August 2015 Curated by Vicente Todoli, this is the first exhibition about the Spanish sculptor in Italy. It reconstructs his installation Double Bind, shown in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2001. Exhibition booklet available as a PDF via the exhibitionContinue reading “Juan Muñoz, Milan”

Joana Vasconcelos: Waddesdon Manor

Joana Vasconcelos at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire The Portuguese sculptor has unveiled the latest of her installations: a monumental pair of 7-metre-tall candlesticks created from glass wine bottles, on display at the North entrance of the 19th-century country house of the Rothschild family at Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. They have been bought for the Manor’s contemporary artContinue reading “Joana Vasconcelos: Waddesdon Manor”