Josefa de Óbidos e a invenção do barroco português; Josefa de Óbidos and the invention of the Portuguese Baroque
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga
16 May – 6 September 2015
Around 130 items, including a selection of the artist’s paintings and other supporting artworks, are on display. Loans from public and private collections in Portugal, Spain, etc.
Advannotice: 26-27 September 2015 will see Madrid enjoy its first ‘Open House’ modeled on the heritage open-days that London and other British cities such as Liverpool and Oxford have had since 1992. Madrid’s ‘Open House’ will open 70 buildings to the public, including the Bank of Spain, which will offer guided visits of the architecture and the Bank’s art collection. Although the list of open buildings has yet to be finalised it should also include the seat of the Madrid Chamber of Commerce, and the newly built Gimnasio Maravillas in Chamartín along with other businesses, hotels, private houses, cultural and sports centres, rehabilitated buildings and architectural studios.
The ‘Open House’ will also coincide with the print collectors’ fair (Feria Arte Estampa) held in Madrid’s Matadero.
Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903-1993)
Círculo de Bellas Artes
Alcalá, Madrid
2 June – 30 August 2015
One of the outstanding Mexican photographers of the twentieth century and one of the key figures in the post-revolutionary artistic renaissance of Mexico along with Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera and Manuel Álvarez Bravo, who was her husband. Her professional career included commercial photography and professional portraits. She recorded the work of outstanding painters for the archives of the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts, she documented cultural events, taught at the Academia de San Carlos, created a photography workshop and founded the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo. She was inspired by photographers like Weston and Cartier-Bresson, and developed an extensive photographic work, of note among which are documentary images of Mexican daily life and experiments with photomontage and mural photography. She created a visual biography of the Mexico of the twentieth century from its cultural and artistic spheres to its urban and rural aspects.
Photographic exhibitions in venues across Spain (including Madrid, Alcala de Henares, Cuenca and Zaragoza), from June to September 2015. In its 18th year it is focusing on Latin American photography. The programme includes, in Madrid (Galería EspacioFoto): Miguel Bergasa: Miradas en Latinoamerica (3 June – 31 July), 28 photos taken between 1983-2013 in Paraguay, Bolivia, Brasil, Peru, Ecuador, Cuba, Chile, Uruguay, Panama and Mexico, including images of the Mennonite community in Paraguay and the Day of the Dead in Mexico.
Manuel Carrillo: Mi querido México
Museo Lazzaro Galdiano, Madrid
4 June – 30 August 2015
Shows about 50 photographs by Carillo from the collection of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch juxtaposed with works by fellow Mexican and North American photographers, such as Ansel Adams, Paul Strand, Edward Weston and Manuel Álvarez Bravo. Having started taking photographs as a hobby in the 1930s his photographic career took off in the 1950s and was launched internationally with an exhibition in Chicago in 1960, mainly of scenes of rural life.
Drawings by Rosario Weiss from the Lazaro Collection, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid
14 May – 29 June 2015
Exhibiting some 36 drawings (from a collection of 58) by the goddaughter and follower of Goya, who learned her drawing and lithographic print-making skills alongside Goya in the 1820s in Madrid and Bordeaux. Her miniature portraits and copies after Goya’s paintings are also on display. Several of the drawings by the short-lived artist were acquired by José Lázaro Galdiano from the nieces and heirs of Rosario.
The Spanish Royal Wallpaper Factory was the last 18th century royal factory to be created (under Carlos III), yet was almost entirely forgotten. Read all about it in this new publication:
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Venue: Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne), Sutherland Building
Date: 9-10 July 2015
Programme: 2015-06-FirstDurhamNorthumbria MedievalGoldenAgeProgramme
ARTES Visit
Xavier Bray
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The Dulwich Picture Gallery
The Spanish Paintings & the newly opened Prud’hon Exhibition
Monday 29 June 2015
1.30 – 4.30 pm
Timetable
1.30: Talk by Xavier Bray
2.15: ARTES AGM
3.15: Tea
3.30: Tour of the Spanish paintings & the Prud’hon exhibition
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