ARTES

Modern Spanish Art at the Meadows Museum

Modern Spanish Art from the Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo

Meadows Museum, Dallas, TX

9 October 2016 – 19 January 2017

Modern Spanish Art from the Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo is the first exhibition in America to present a comprehensive survey of Modern Art in Spain from the Belle Époque through the Kennedy years. The rich and diverse art created in Spain during this period is largely unknown in the U.S. due to the turmoil that took place in Spain at this time. Juxtaposing the modern art collection of the Meadows Museum with works from the Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo (ACAC) in the Museo Patio Herreriano of Valladolid, this exhibition brings together more than 90 paintings, sculptures and works on paper to demonstrate the most important aspects of Spanish modern art and shed light on the global connection between Spanish art and other international modern art movements.

CALL FOR PAPERS – FLANDES BY SUBSTITUTION: COPIES OF FLEMISH MASTERS IN THE HISPANIC WORLD (1500-1700) – KIK-IRPA, BRUSSELS – 9-10 FEB 2017

Michiel Cocxie after Hubert and Jan van Eyck, The Adoration of the Lamb, 1558, oil on panel, 133 × 236 cm, signed : “MICHAEL DE COXIE ME FECIT ANNO 1558”, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie

CALL FOR PAPERS

FLANDES BY SUBSTITUTION: COPIES OF FLEMISH MASTERS IN THE HISPANIC WORLD (1500-1700)

Art History Seminar 18 of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) Brussels, 9-10 February 2017

On 9 and 10 February 2017 an international conference will be held on the copies of paintings of Flemish masters during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries related to the Hispanic world. The event will take place at the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Brussels and is organized in collaboration with the Spanish National Research Project COPIMONARCH: La copia pictórica en la Monarquía Hispánica, siglos XVI-XVIII (I+D HAR2014-52061-P) from the Universidad de Granada.

The artistic heritage of the regions that once formed part of the former Spanish Empire includes a large number of painted copies after Flemish masters made during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries. Most of these works have received little attention even though they constitute a valuable source for understanding the artistic influence of the Southern Netherlands on Spanish and Latin American art and society in this period. Indeed, the study of copies of Flemish masters sheds light on a number of art historical issues, including the means of diffusion of artistic models, stylistic trends and the dynamics of the art market and the world of collecting. These copies are a valuable testimony to the political, commercial and cultural ties that existed between the Hispanic territories and the Southern Netherlands.

The conference will focus on the phenomenon of the copy from a large variety of approaches, ranging from workshop practices to collecting, trade and patronage. Papers about studies on particular copies are welcomed, but special attention will be paid to the driving forces behind the export-driven market of copies, such as artists, patrons, collectors and merchants. By taking into account cultural, religious, political and socio-economic dynamics, this conference aims to shed new light on the multifaceted artistic impact of the Southern Netherlands on the Hispanic world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

We welcome 20 minutes papers that offer new contributions in which recent methodologies and theoretical frameworks are applied to copies after Flemish masters from this period. Proposals can focus both on copies made in the Southern Netherlands to be sent to the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America, and on copies made in these regions.

Candidates are invited to submit their proposals to Eduardo Lamas-Delgado (eduardo.lamas@kikirpa.be) and to the project COPIMONARCH (copimonarch@gmail.com) before 15 September 2016. This should include an abstract (up to 300 words) and a brief CV (max. 1 page).

Further information on the conference will be available from 30 October 2016 on www.kikirpa.be and http://wdb.ugr.es/~copimonarch/eventos/

The conference organisers are unable to cover travel and accommodation costs for speakers. Interested parties should apply for support from their respective institutions.

Committee
Elena Alcalá (UAM, Madrid), Christina Ceulemans (KIK-IRPA, Brussels), Maria Cruz de Carlos (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid), Christina Currie (KIK-IRPA, Brussels), Hélène Dubois (Ghent University / KIK-IRPA, Brussels), Pedro Flor (UAB, Lisbon), Bart Fransen (KIK-IRPA, Brussels), David García-Cueto (UGR, Granada), Pierre-Yves Kairis (KIK-IRPA, Brussels), Eduardo Lamas-Delgado (KIK-IRPA / ULB, Brussels), Didier Martens (ULB, Brussels), Benito Navarrete (UAH, Alcalá de Henares).

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Exhibition: Ceán Bermúdez, Art Historian & Collector

Ceán Bermúdez (1749-1829), historiador de arte y coleccionista ilustrado
Biblioteca Nacional de España in association with the Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica
Madrid, 20 May – 11 September

Survey of the life and works of this Enlightenment art historian and collector, uniting158 items mainly drawn from the collections of the BNE, but also including paintings, drawings and manuscripts from other collections. Among the artworks shown are Goya’s portraits of Ceán Bermúdez of c.1786 and 1798-99, Goya’s unpublished illustrations for the art historian’s Diccionario of Spanish artists, and Rembrandt’s Abraham, Hagar and Ishmael of 1637, from his collection.

Exhibition catalogue, link here.

Barcelona: Ramon Casas

Ramón Casas

Círculo del Liceo de Barcelona
Barcelona, 10 May – 20 July 2016

Exhibition of nearly 100 works marking the 150th anniversary of the birth of Casas (1866-1932). Curated by Isabel Coll Mirabent, a specialist in the fin de siècle period. Focuses on the artist’s lover and muse, Julia Peraire (b.1888), the lottery-ticket seller whom he met in 1905 and married in 1922, and whom he portrayed in oils, drawings and posters, in a variety of guises from femme fatale to chaste nun. Most of these images have never been shown in public together before.

The exhibition is displayed in the rooms of the private modernista style club with which Casas was closely associated and from whose collections and those of its members the artworks have mainly been selected.

The Círculo has also organised a programme of lectures.

Madrid: Spanish Drawings from the Uffizi

I Segni nel tempo. Dibujos españoles de los Uffizi
Real Academia de San Fernando
Madrid, 12 May – 24 July 2016

Exhibition of 129 Spanish drawings from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries selected from the Uffizi’s holdings in Florence by Professor Benito Navarrete. The exhibition is the result of two years of research among drawings some 77 of which were previously considered to be Italian or north European and are now published for the first time as of Spanish authorship.The most important of these discoveries is a drawing, formerly considered German, and now attributed to Juan de Juanes for his lost painting Dead Christ supported by Angels. Other new works include drawings by Alonso de Berruguete, Vicente Carducho, Francisco Pacheco and Herrera the Younger all discovered among the ‘Italian’ works.

The origin of the Uffizi’s Spanish drawings was a collection put together in Madrid around 1745 by a Florentine merchant Giovanni Filippo Michelozzi; the rest were donated in 1866 by the sculptor Emilio Santarelli (1801-1886). Artists represented range from Gaspar Becerra to Meléndez and include works by Luis de Vargas Alonso Cano and Ribera.

View a selection of drawings from the exhibition here.

Huesca: Nicolás and Elías Viñuales

VISTA PARCIAL DEL COSO ESQUINA CON CALLE GOYA RETRATADAS TRES MUJERES CON TRAJES DE EPOCA AÑOS 10-20 Y GENTE PASANDO POR LA CALLE SE VE LA TIENDA DE BARRIO Y LA PASTELERIA SOLER

Más allá de la afición. Nicolás and Elías Viñuales
Sala de Exposiciones de la Diputación de Huesca
Huesca, 20 May – 31 July 2016

Photographic exhibition focussing on the founders of Turismo del Altoaragón, one of the many amateur photography groups established in Spain in the first decades of the twentieth century. The Viñuales brothers (1881-1927, and 1892-1940) used photography to publicise, via posters, periodicals and exhibitions, the beauties, historic buildings and rural traditions of the Aragonese region, perceived to be under threat from modernity. The exhibition unites for the first time photographs from three local archives the Ayuntamiento of Huesca, the Diputación Provincial de Huesca and the Villanueva-Loscertales family. It is accompanied by a publication reproducing the displayed photographs.
Exhibition catalogue, link here.

PARES 2.0 Launched

PARES 2.0: Portal de Archivos Españoles

In May 2016 the redesigned portal to access Spain’s state archives was launched as PARES 2.0, the Portal de Archivos Españoles http://pares.mcu.es/. It incorporates new multilingual search tools (in English and all Hispanic languages) allowing users to access 8.6 million documents and 33.9 million digital images.

Further information, click here.

Girona: 14th Image and Research International Conference

14th Image & Research International Conference

Centre for Image Research & Diffusion (CDRI) Girona City Council, and Partners

Girona, 16-18 November 2016

Programme

Organised by:
The Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI) of the Girona City Council and the Association of Archivists of Catalonia, with the support of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia – Sub-Directorate General of Archives, and the Spanish Ministry of Culture – Sub Directorate-General of State Archives, the promotion of the International Council on Archives (CIA/ICA) and the collaboration of Digital Meets Culture, Michael Culture Association, Photographic Studies Institute of Catalonia (IEFC), Sindicat de la Imatge UPIFC and ANABAD.

Hispania Nostra 40th Anniversary

Hispania Nostra
40th Anniversary: Recognising Spain’s Patrimony in Europe
Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid (COAM)
Madrid, 23 May – 30 June 2016

Subsequently on show at other locations around Spain.

Display celebrating Spain’s cultural and natural heritage via the 191 Spanish projects that have been awarded Europa Nostra prizes over the last 40 years. The exhibition is divided into 13 sections including: Roman monuments; Arab buildings; religious institutions; palaces, houses and towers; civic buildings; other urban structures; and industrial heritage.

Medieval Acquisitions, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), Barcelona

Antonio Gallardo Ballart Donation:
New Masterpieces for the Museum
Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC), Barcelona
17 March – 3 July 2016

Display of 17 Romanesque and Gothic paintings and mural fragments selected from artworks presented to the Museum in recent years by the collector Antonio Gallardo Ballart. These acquisitions constitute the most outstanding contribution to the medieval collection over the past few years. In the near future, these pieces will come to form part of the permanent itinerary through the Museum’s room displays. The selection includes examples of Romanesque mural painting and Gothic panel painting, from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. Most of the pieces are of Catalan origin, by artists such as the Serra brothers, Lluís Borrassà and Bernat Martorell. The rest come from other Hispanic regions, such as the fragment from the Abbey of San Pedro de Arlanza and a panel associated with Nicolás Francés.