Exhibition:
Juan Muñoz (1953-2001): Double Bind and Around
Hangar Bicocca, Milan
9 April – 23 August 2015
Curated by Vicente Todoli, this is the first exhibition about the Spanish sculptor in Italy. It reconstructs his installation Double Bind, shown in Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 2001.
Exhibition booklet available as a PDF via the exhibition web page.
Alfredo Ramos Martinez, Los Angeles
Exhibition:
Alfredo Ramos Martinez (1872-1946): An exhibition in honour of Maria Martinez Bolster
Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles
30 April – 11 July 2015
A display of drawings and paintings by the Mexican artist who having trained in Paris was made head of the National Academy in Mexico City in 1913, where he supervised the enrollment of the young muralist David Siqueiros amongst others and influenced the Modernist artist Rufino Tamayo. The works on show are from the 1930s and 1940s when Ramos Martinez had settled in Los Angeles, whilst he was seeking medical assistance for his young daughter crippled with a bone disease, though the imagery is inspired by the Mexican landscape and people. The Louis Stern Galleries represents the artist’s estate.
Joaquín Torres-García retrospective, New York
Forthcoming exhibition
Joaquín Torres-García
Museum of Modern Art, New York
October 25, 2015–February 15, 2016
Works ranging from the late 19th century to the 1940s, and includes drawings, paintings, objects, sculptures, and original artist notebooks and rare publications will be on show.
Jaume Plensa: Venice Biennale 2015
Jaume Plensa. Together
Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice
7 May – 22 November 2015
A quartet of new installations by one of Spain’s leading sculptors the Catalan-born Jaume Plensa, displayed in the Palladian church of San Giorgio Maggiore as part of the Venice Biennale. The display Together, curated by Clare Lilley, Director of Programmes at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, creates a ‘conversation’ between two sculpted heads above which, hanging from the Basilica’s dome, is suspended a hand formed from letters of eight different alphabets. Another sculpture, placed in the nave, and drawings related to the installations will be shown at the Fondazione Cini’s library, in its “Nuova Manica Lunga“.
Picasso/Dalí, Dalí/Picasso: Barcelona
Exhibition:
Picasso/Dalí, Dalí/Picasso
Museu Picasso, Barcelona
20 March-28 June 2015
Exhibition organized by the Barcelona museum and the Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida to explore the mutual admiration and rivalry between these two key figures in twentieth-century art. Art works and documents from the time reveal the counterpoints and contradictions throughout their relationship, from their first meeting in the 1920s, when Dalí visited Picasso’s studio after making his first avant-garde forays, through the 1930s and their friendships with leading intellectuals―André Breton, Paul Éluard and Georges Bataille―through to their opposing positions following the Spanish Civil War.
Accompanied by catalogue.
Michel Leiris, Metz
Exhibition:
Leiris & Co: Picasso, Masson, Miró, Giacometti, Lam, Bacon. . .
Centre Pompidou, Metz, France
3 April – 14 September 2015
A cross-disciplinary exhibition focusing on Michel Leiris, the writer, anthropologist, bull-fighting aficionado, and Africanist curator at the Musée de l’Homme, who formed friendships with artists such as Picasso and Miró amongst others.
The exhibition of nearly 350 items encompasses a wide range of works from Raymond Roussel to Pablo Picasso that stem from Africa, the Caribbean, Spain, Cuba and China, resulting in a web of links between writing, painting, jazz and opera, trance and bullfighting, voodoo and Ethiopian possession rites.
Accompanied by a catalogue jointly published by Pompidou-Metz and Éditions Gallimard.
Symposium, organised in cooperation with Musée du Quai Branly, Paris: Metz and Paris,10-11 September 2015.
Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination, Denver
Exhibition:
Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination
Denver Art Museum
22 March – 28 June 2015
The exhibition Miró: The Experience of Seeing of works by Miró from the last two decades of his career (1963-1981) organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía from its own collections, and touring venues in America, has now reached Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, under the title Joan Miró: Instinct & Imagination.
Accompanied by an exhibition catalogue.
Frida Kahlo: New York
Exhibition:
Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life
New York Botanical Garden
16 May – 1 November 2015
Focuses on 14 of Kahlo’s late-career floral still-lifes and features a series of plantings inspired by her garden at the Casa Azul in Mexico City.
Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980: New York
Exhibition:
Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980
New York, Museum of Modern Art
March 29, 2015–July 19, 2015
Brings together models, drawings and archival photographs as well as new photography of key buildings, not only those by the Brazilian Oscar Niemeyer and Mexican Luis Barragán but also less well known structures by Cuban architects, such as Hugo d’Acosta.
The exhibition is accompanied by two major publications: a catalogue and an anthology of primary texts translated from Spanish and Portuguese.
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit
Exhibition:
Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo in Detroit
Detroit Institute of Arts
Focuses on the couple’s work in the 1930s boom-town motor-city and Kahlo’s increasing adoption of traditional Mexican dress and symbolism in her work as a reaction against the American city’s elite. Around 70 works are on display, including eight of Rivera’s preparatory drawings for his Detroit Industry mural, and 23 pieces by Kahlo.
Accompanied by a substantial exhibition catalogue
Exhibition closes: 12 July 2015
