1st London Design Biennale

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Somerset House, London, 7 – 27 September 2016

The first London Design Biennale will open this September at Somerset House with over 30 countries and territories participating, including Chile, Cuba, Mexico, Portugal and Spain. Taking over the entirety of Somerset House, the Biennale explores big questions and ideas about sustainability, migration, pollution, energy, cities, and social equality. Engaging and interactive installations, innovations, artworks and proposed design solutions – all in an immersive, inspiring and entertaining tour of the world.

Spanish Pavilion

The Spanish Pavilion’s VRPolis Diving into the Future aims to show viewers, via virtual reality goggles, the future of  the city of Santander in 2100, focusing especially on its port, bay area, Plaza Porticada and the calle Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola.

International Symposium, Girona, October 2016

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Girona, 19, 20, 21 October 2016

Registration now open

The DOCOGOTHIC Network, together with the CATS research group and the IRH-2014 SGR 110 Project, call on the national and International scientific community to participate in the symposium ‘Obra Congrua’ to commemorate 600 years of the famous consultation on the construction of Girona Cathedral, in which it was debated whether the Cathedral should be built with three naves instead of only one, the widest nave of the Gothic period. This will be an International symposium of multidisciplinary character open to historians, architects, and engineers in which  Spanish and European Gothic buildings will be analysed, taking as a reference the  Girona Cathedral master builders’ consultation held in 1416. Papers will be evaluated by a scientific committee following peer review. It is our intention to publish both guest papers and accepted papers.

Programme

Jheronimus Bosch in Madrid: Latest update on extended hours

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BOSCH EXHIBITION NOW EXTENDED UNTIL 25 SEPTEMBER 2016

The Museo del Prado extends “Bosch: The 5th Centenary Exhibition”

The Museo del Prado and Fundación BBVA wish to offer visitors every opportunity to visit “Bosch: The 5th Centenary Exhibition,” a unique event at which they can enter the imagination of one of the most fascinating and universal painters of all time. In this respect, more than 428,527 visitors have already enjoyed the exhibition. The show will therefore remain open until 25 September, featuring special opening hours: over the last two weekends, visitors can enjoy the exhibition up until midnight.

In order to facilitate the purchase of tickets and avoid queues as time passes are required, we recommend that visitors purchase their tickets in advance by selecting the date and time of entry. These passes are available at both the ticket office and via the Internet: www.museodelprado.es

Bosch. The 5th Centenary Exhibition

Museo del Prado, Madrid, 31 May – 11 September 2016

STOP PRESS! As of 1 August 2016 the Prado will extend the opening hours of the Bosch exhibition:
-Open until 10 pm Mondays-Saturdays
-Open until 9pm Sundays & public holidays

Comprises all eight paintings by the artist to be found in Spain together with others loaned from collections and museums around the world. This represents the greatest number of Bosch’s works ever to be assembled.

Curator:
Pilar Silva, Head of the Department of Spanish Painting until 1500 and Flemish and Northern School Paintings.

Exhibition catalogue, link here.

Damián Ortega in Madrid

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Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Madrid
5 May – 2 October 2016

This Ortega installation revisits the artist’s previous series (2007), which was inspired by Mexico City’s Torre Latinoamérica, built between 1949 and 1956 and regarded as one of the most important examples of modern architecture in Mexico. In his new installation Ortega has inverted the tower and hung it from the dome of the Palacio as an hour-glass cum pendulum which releases grains of sand in unpredictable designs. Organised by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía .

Damián Ortega in Edinburgh

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Damián Ortega

Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
9 July – 23 October 2016

Ortega (b. 1967) is one of the new generation of Mexican artists whose sculptures focus attention on how the forces of nature, whether wind, water, arth or fire, act on the earth and affect humankind. The works in the Fruitmarket exhibition are mainly made from clay  to form waves, ‘icebergs’ or track the eroding power of a river and will introduce a major new sculpture. The exhibition will be accompanied by a new bilingual publication Damián Ortega: States of Time fully illustrating this new body of work and including texts by Adrian Forty and Sergio González Rodríguez,

New Journal on Spanish Art

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From 2017, Routledge and the Bulletin of Spanish Studies will be publishing a new sister-journal, Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies

To celebrate the inauguration of this forthcoming title and the ‘animal turn’ in cultural studies, the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, UCL is hosting a one-day event on the representation of animals in visual Hispanism, curated by Jo Evans (UCL) and Sarah Wright (RHUL):

Animals in Visual Hispanism: An International Symposium

University College London
 Friday 9th September 2016

Read full details and register here

Click here for the full programme and here for the abstracts

Papers from the event will be published in the inaugural issue of the Bulletin of Spanish Visual Studies, co-edited by Jo Evans and Sarah Wright (2017).

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Upcoming exhibition: Picasso on Paper, Compton Verney

Picasso on Paper

Compton Verney, Warwickshire
15 October – 11 December 2016

Featuring over 70 works from the collection of the Museum Kunstpalast in Düsseldorf, this exhibition traces Picasso’s evolving artistic vision through four decades of experimentation in printmaking techniques and subject matter.

 

Sculpture in the City (Londo)

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Sculpture in the City

City of London
July 2016 to May 2017

15 large-scale public sculptures by artists including the Catalan sculptor Jaume Plensa’s Laura (2013), one of his female portraits symbolising the state of dreaming and aspiration (shown near ‘the Gherkin’); and four works from Peruvian-born Lizi Sánchez’s abstract Cadenetas series (2016) of small brightly-coloured lead rings cut into loops forming interlocking rings.

Connect here for map of the City of London Sculpture Trail.

 

Picasso at the Fondation Pierre Gianadda

Picasso: His late work: A tribute to Jacqueline

Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland
18 June – 20 November, 2016

Exhibition marking the 30th anniversary of Picasso’s last wife and final muse, Jacqueline Rocque. Presents a selection of more than 110 items of Picasso’s ceramics, engravings, paintings and sculptures from the mid 1950’s to his death in 1973, many of which feature Jacqueline as his model. During the first ten years of this period, Picasso revisited masterpieces from the past: Delacroix (Les Femmes d’Alger, 1954-1955), Velázquez (Las Meninas, 1957), Manet (Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1959-1961), Poussin and David (L’Enlèvement des Sabines, 1963). After 1963 Picasso focussed on the painter and his model. In 1963 alone Jacqueline is represented 160 times in the artist’s work. In addition to the paintings, the exhibition also reveals Picasso’s skills in other forms of expression: printmaking in the form of etchings, lithographs and linocuts; sculpture and ceramics. Accompanied by a catalogue (in French).

Picasso in Columbus, Ohio

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Picasso: The Great War, Experimentation and Change

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

10 June– 11 September, 2016

Exhibition (having toured from the Barnes Museum, Philadelphia) inspired by CMA’s  Picasso Still Life with Compote and Glass, 1914–15. It features some 50 works drawn from major museums and private collections from around the world. The exhibition explores how Picasso’s work was affected by the tumultuous years of the First World War, when the artist began experimenting with both cubist and classical modes in his art. Important canvases by Picasso’s contemporaries—including Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Diego Rivera— are also shown. The exhibition also features four costumes designed by Picasso for the avant-garde ballet, Parade, which premiered in Paris in 1917 and was the first cross-disciplinary collaboration of its kind. Picasso was the first avant-garde artist involved in such a production. The exhibition will be reviewed by The Burlington Magazine post July 2016. As a complementary display to the main exhibition the CMA will also be showing Pablo Picasso: 25 Years of Edition Ceramics, created by the artist in the decade following 1946 in collaboration with Georges and Suzanne Ramie of the Madoura pottery.