Goya and the Altamira Family, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 22 April – 3 August 2014. A picture-in-focus display of Goya’s four portraits of the Altamira family, including the Metropolitan’s portrait of Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga (1787-88) known as the ‘Boy in Red’, and a fifth family portrait by Agustin Esteve. This will be the first time that all five portraits have been brought together from American and Spanish private and public collections. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication in the form of a Bulletin.
Sorolla, Madrid
Fiesta y Color: The ethnographic gaze of Sorolla, Museo Sorolla, Madrid, 10 December 2013 – 20 May 2014.
Focuses on Sorolla’s images of the rural costume and customs that he saw on his travels over eight years through Andalucía, Aragón, Castilla, Cataluña, Extremadura, Galicia, Guipúzcoa and Valencia between 1911 and 1919.
Exhibition includes costume, jewellery, photographs and letters as well as some 25 paintings and drawings, several of which have never been shown in public before and some of which were acquired by Sorolla on his travels. His collection of regional costume is important as it was acquired before the big exhibition of Regional Dress held in Madrid in 1925, which stimulated collectors’ interest in such material.
Sebastiâo Salgado, Madrid and Brasilia
Sebastiâo Salgado: Genesis, CaixaForum, Madrid, 17 January – 4 May; and later to Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (Distrito Federal), Brasilia, Brazil, 5 August – 29 September 2014. Another in the Brazilian-born photographer’s series of exhibitions of his black and white images of remote landscapes and their animal and human inhabitants.
This exhibition of 216 works was previously shown at the Natural History Museum, London.
Picasso, Madrid
Picasso in the Studio, Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid, 12 February – 11 May 2014. Exhibition of about 80 paintings, 70 prints and drawings, 26 photos and other ephemera including 10 palettes displayed in five sections to provide an insight into Picasso’s use of his studio as the centre for his activity from 1905 when he produced his Self-portrait with a palette and his Man Sitting on a Stool of 1969, which has only been shown once before. Many of the works have been selected from private collections rarely seen before as well as loans from major collections worldwide. Accompanied by catalogue in Spanish, first published in Madrid in 2004 – with essays by Christopher Green amongst others.
The Generation of ´14: Science and Modernity, Madrid
The Generation of ´14: Science and Modernity – a century on, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid, 14 March – 1 June 2014. An exhibition of almost 300 books, documents, letters, photographs, posters and art related to the generation of Spanish authors, journalists, scientists and artists, born in the 1880s and 90s, who in 1914 launched a campaign and a journal (España) aiming to modernize Spanish intellectual and cultural life by turning to Europe – Germany, France and Britain – as inspiration. The men and some feminist-inspired women were led by Ortega y Gasset and the doctor and historian Gregorio Marañon and portrayed by artists such as José Gutiérrez Solana and Ignacio Zuloaga.
Jozami Collection, Madrid
Entre Tiempos, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid, 7 February – 12 May 2014. Display of some 80 twentieth century and contemporary works and installations, including photographs and video pieces, from the Argentinian Jozami collection, numbering some 1,000 items acquired by the sociologist and businessman Aníbal Yazbeck Jozami with his journalist wife Marlise Ilhesca. The collection has two main strengths modern and contemporary art from South America and international photographic and video art. The exhibition including works by Joaquín Torres García, Ana Mendieta and Vik Muniz, and is accompanied by a catalogue.
Dario de Regoyos, Madrid
Dario de Regoyos (1857-1913): The Impressionist future,Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 18 February – 1 June and in a reduced form to the Carmen Thyssen Museum, Málaga, 26 June -12 October. Major exhibition (previously in Bilbao) of over 140 works – oils, pastels, watercolours, prints and drawings – as well as photographs and documents, commemorating the centenary of the Asturian artist’s death. Divided into various chronological sections starting with his period in Belgium, passing through his Symbolist ‘España Negra’ series, peopled with widows, orphans, deaths and burials, and onto his ‘pointilliste’-inspired landscape views of the Basque countryside.
Post Picasso: Reacciones contemporáneas, Barcelona
Post Picasso: Reacciones contemporáneas, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 7 March – 29 June 2014. First exhibition to focus on the influence of Picasso’s art on contemporary visual arts since his death in 1973. Some 75 work including photography and video installations alongside paintings and sculpture, by 42 artists from across the world including Spain and South America. Curated by Michael FitzGerald, Professor of Art at Trinity College, Hartford USA.
Joan Colom, Barcelona
Joan Colom: Photographs 1957-2012, Museu Nacional d’Art Catalunya, Barcelona, 12 December 2013 – 25 May 2014. Major retrospective of this Barcelona-born photographer (b.1921), who revolutionised Spanish photo-reportage with his work in Barcelona especially his series focussing on its run-down barrios and red-light districts of the late 1950s and 1960s. Selected from the archive of more than 9,000 photographic prints and negatives recently given to the MNAC.
Cristina Iglesias, Brussels
Shown in parallel with the Zurbarán exhibition, a two-room display of sculptures and installations in concrete, iron, alabaster, stained glass and textile, by the contemporary Spanish sculptor Cristina Iglesias, precedes and follows the Zurbarán. Runs until 25 May 2014.
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