ARTES

New Journal on Spanish Art

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).

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)

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 30^th 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

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.

Picasso in Jerusalem

Pablo Picasso: Drawing Inspiration

Nathan Cummings Building for Modern and Contemporary Art Israel Museum, Jerusalem
7 July – 19 November, 2016

Featuring several hundred works from the Israel Museum’s collection, complemented by notable loans from major museums worldwide showcases Picasso’s artistic evolution, experimentations, and virtuosity from the turn of the 20th century to 1970. Emphasizing Picasso’s graphic works, this exhibition demonstrates the artist’s lifelong interest and extraordinary versatility in drawing and printmaking. Picasso meticulously dated his prints, particularly in his series, keeping close track of the development of his art. The works on view, executed in all of the most important printmaking techniques – etching, engraving, drypoint, aquatint, lithography, and linocut.

Picasso’s Eyes (Málaga)

Picasso. Juego de ojos. Colección

Museo Picasso, Málaga
14 March – 11 September 2016

Exhibition of 43 works selected from the museum’s own collections of drawings, prints, illustrated books and ceramics focusing on one of Picasso’s artistic obsessions, the gaze, displayed as a chronological survey beginning with The eyes of the artist and concluding with the Head of the Bearded Man II and allowing the viewer to follow Picasso’s stylistic and technical variety.

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses (Vancouver)

Picasso: The Artist and His Muses

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
11 June – 2 October 2016

Exhibition examining the significance of the six women who were inspirational to his artistic development: Fernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Thérèse Walter, Dora Maar, Françoise Gilot and Jacqueline Roque. Picasso’s innovations in painting, drawing, print and sculpture are conveyed through recurring motifs such as the seated woman and reclining nude. Created by Art Centre Basel in collaboration with the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Katharina Beisiegel.

Exhibition catalogue produced by the Art Centre Basel.

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera (Sydney)

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera from the Jacques and Natasha Gelman collection

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
25 June – 9 October 2016

Exhibition presents 33 artworks from the collection of Jacques and Natasha Gelman, including self-portrait paintings and drawings by Frida Kahlo, and major examples of Diego Rivera’s canvas paintings. Alongside these works are over 50 photographs by figures such as Edward Weston, Lola Alvarez Bravo and Frida’s father, Guillermo Kahlo, which provide insights into the artists’ worlds and their intriguing relationship.

Exhibition Artboards: click here.

Exhibition catalogue: click here.

Picasso Linocuts at the Lever Art Gallery (Port Sunlight)

Picasso Linocuts from the British Museum

Lady Lever Art Gallery
Port Sunlight, Wirral
Merseyside

24 June 2016 – 8 January 2017

17 linocuts from three experimental series created by Picasso in 1962: Jacqueline Reading, portraying Picasso’s recent bride Jacquline Rocque; the rare entire set of progressive proofs of Still Life under the Lamp; and key prints from the Nude Woman at a Spring series, which was inspired by a figure in Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’Herbe. The first two sets were acquired by the British Museum in 2013 and this display is the first time that they have been shown outside London.
The display is accompanied by a brief video of an interview with Hidalgo Arnéra, Picasso’s collaborator in the production of his technically complex linocuts.

Connect here to book with the ARTES Group’s visit to Liverpool, including this exhibition, on 15 August.