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.

ARTES Private View & AGM – Tues 5 July 2016 – Apsley House London

Lecture – Arts & Sciences in Early Islamic Spain – Courtauld Institute – Wed 15 June 2016 – 3.30 pm

The Arts & Science in Early Islamic Spain

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Wednesday 15 June 2016 – 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Research Forum Seminar Room, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 0RN

Speakers include

Dr Glaire D. Anderson: University of North Carolina

Organised by

Dr Sussan Babaie: The Courtauld Institute of Art

Open to all, free admission

There is a symbiotic relationship between design, art and visual culture, and the exact sciences, which is attested in early scientific objects from al-Andalus and in medieval Arabic texts. In this talk I explore the objects, spaces, and figures that illuminate this relationship, focusing on ‘Abbas Ibn Firnas (d. ca. 887), the celebrated polymath of the Cordoban Umayyad court, and on al-Andalus and its contemporaries between the 9th-11th centuries.

Glaire D. Anderson is a historian of Islamic art of the caliphal period, with a focus on the art and court culture of Umayyad Cordoba. She is the author of The Villa in Early Islamic Iberia (Ashgate, 2013), co-editor with Mariam Rosser-Owen of Revisiting al-Andalus (Brill, 2007), and recent articles on the Islamic west in architectural history, women and the arts of Cordoba, and material culture and caliphal sovereignty.

Sorolla in Munich

Joaquin Sorolla: Spain’s Master of Light
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung
Munich
4 March – 3 July 2016

A comprehensive retrospective of the Spanish artist includes 120 works from the artist’s entire career, from his early paintings in Paris, in which the influence of the French Impressionists is clearly evident, through to the distinctive pictures that reflect the maturing of his art into his own style. The exhibition focuses in particular on the large-format paintings that attracted such attention in the Paris Salon. Accompanied by a 248-page catalogue in German with 118 colour images priced at €29.

Gonzalo Chillida (San Sebastián)

Gonzalo Chillida
Kuba-Kutxa Fondazioa
San Sebastián
22 April – 3 July 2016

First major retrospective of the San Sebastián-born artist displaying some 130 paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from five decades of his career: Landscapes and still lives through his abstract images of the 1950s and 1960s, culminating with his sea and cloudscapes.

CLosing soon: Salvador Dalí at the Menil (Houston)

The Secret of the Hanging Egg: Salvador Dalí at the Menil
Menil Collection, Houston, Texas

Exhibition closes 19 June 2016

The Menil has borrowed from the Dali Museum, St Petersburg, Florida Dalí’s Eggs on a Plate without the Plate and displayed it alongside its own Surrealist collection including artists with whom he collaborated in Paris.

Click here for a 2-page leaflet on the painting