ARTES

CFP: The Alhambra in a Global Context (Zürich, 16-17 September 2016)

CFP: The Power of Symbols: The Alhambra in a Global Context
Zürich, September 16 – 17, 2016
Deadline for submission: 1 September 2015
Organisers: Prof. Dr. Francine Giese / Dr. Ariane Varela Braga (University of Zürich)
Keynote Speakers: Fernando Valdés Fernández (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) / Pedro A. Galera Andreu (Universidad de Jaén)
The following sections are planned:
– The Alhambra in Islamic Times
– The Alhambra and national identity
– The Alhambra in the World
– The Alhambra in the 21st century – New Challenges

Papers should have a duration of 20 min. Conference languages will be German, English and French. Abstracts of no more than 300 words, together with a short CV, should be sent to: conference@transculturalstudies.ch

Exhibiton: Miró, Düsseldorf

: Installationsansicht der Ausstellung “Miró. Malerei als Poesie” im K20 Grabbeplatz, Foto: Achim Kukulies, © Successió Miró / VG Bild-Kunst 2015

Miró: Malerei als Poesie (Miró: Painting as Poetry)
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf
13 June – 27 September 2015

Previously on at the Bucerius KunstForum, Hamburg, now on in an expanded form. Exhibition of about 50 paintings from across the artist’s career together with a representative selection from the more than 250 illustrated books that he designed. The exhibition explores two main themes: how Miró’s work was informed by contemporary literature both in Barcelona and in Paris after 1920; and how contemporary poets, such as André Breton, Paul Eluard and Tristan Tzara later collaborated with or were inspired by Miró’s work.
Reviewed in The Burlington Magazine May 2015 (pp 371-373) by Lesley Thornton-Cronin, former ARTES Facundo Riaño Essay Prize winner.

Catalogue: Miró. Malerei als Poesie
ISBN: 978-3-941773-30-1
29,90 EUR

Exhibition: Francisco de Zurbarán, Madrid

Zurbarán: A New Perspective; Zurbarán: una nueva mirada

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
9 June – 13 September 2015

The exhibition will include the recently conserved St Serapion — click here for video (before its redisplay in the new European galleries at Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut), and aims to provide a new insight into the artist’s work by showing, for the first time in Spain, recently rediscovered works alongside paintings by the best of his pupils including his son Juan de Zurbarán’s still lives. Curated by Zurbarán specialist Odile Delenda and Mar Borobia, Head of Old Master Paintings at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.

Exhibition: Josefa de Óbidos, Lisbon

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.

Open House Madrid, 26-27 September 2015

Open House Madrid 2015

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.

Exhibition: Lola Álvarez Bravo, Madrid

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.

PhotoEspaña 2015

PhotoEspaña 2015

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.

Exhibition: Manuel Carillo, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid

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.

Exhibition: Rosario Weiss, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid

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.

Exhibition: Vicente Carducho, Madrid, May – September 2016

Vicente Carducho: teoría y práctica del dibujo en el Siglo de Oro, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid, 29 May – 6 September 2015. Major exhibition of drawings, many never shown before, by Vicente Carducho (Florence 1576-1638 Madrid), a key artist at the Spanish court. Accompanied by contextualizing documents and prints by Carducho’s contemporaries drawn from the Biblioteca Nacional, and other public institutions and private collections in Spain and Italy. The display is the result of a detailed cataloguing process of the library’s collection of works by Vicente Carducho and is divided into six sections, covering his career from its beginning in the Escorial, where he worked alongside his brother Bartolomé, to his commissions from Philip III and Philip IV in Valladolid, El Pardo, and culminating in his pictorical cycle for the Carthusian monastery of El Paular (1626-1632). The final sections feature the artist’s theoretical writings and the influence of Carducho’s workshop and studio assistants.