Exhibition:
Velázquez
Grand Palais
Paris, 25 March – 13 July 2015
The first monographic exhibition in France on the artis, surveying his entire career and his influence on contemporaries.
Organised by the Louvre’s curator of Spanish and Latin American art, Guillaume Kientz, with the support of the Prado and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.
Exhibition:
Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
7 March – 7 June 2015
Previously on show at Pallant House, Chichester (closed 15 February 2015) this exhibition moves to the Laing Art Gallery.
Features British artists such as Henry Moore, Edward Burra, Wyndham Lewis and John Armstrong shown alongside work by Miró and Picasso’s Weeping Woman. The exhibition reveals how a generation of British artists were drawn into the Spanish Civil War. While some went to fight in the war themselves, others created posters campaigning for aid for refugees, or created works that made forceful political statements.
Exhibition:
Imagining New Worlds: Wifredo Lam, José Parlá, Fahamu Pecou
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
14 February – 24 May 2015
Retrospective (organised by the McMullen Art Museum, Boston College) of the Cuban twentieth-century artist Wifredo Lam (1902-1982) alongside responses to his legacy by contemporary artists. Traces his career from his early studies in Madrid, his move to Paris in 1938 where he became a member of the Surrealists in the 1940s before he developed his signature fusion of Cubism, Surrealism, Santería imagery and vivid Afro-Caribbean symbolism.
The exhibition will transfer to the Pompidou Centre, Paris, in September 2015.
Exhibition:
El mundo al revés: El calotipo en España
Museo Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona
22 January – 26 April 2015
Brings together some 160 works of both negatives and positives, many from the University’s own collection. Featured calotypes include Claudius Galen Wheelhouse’s views of Cádiz and Seville taken in 1849, and work by Charles Clifford.
Also included is a copy of the illustrated edition of Stirling Maxwell’s Annals of the Artists of Spain published in 1849, the first photographically illustrated art history book.
La colección de María Josefa Huarte: Abstracción y modernidad
Museo Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona,
22 January – 31 August 2015
Inaugural exhibition in Pamplona’s newly opened gallery of modern art, designed by Rafael Moneo. Showcases the 48 paintings and sculptures presented to the University by María Josefa Huarte. Includes works by Picasso, Oteiza and Tàpies.
Catalogue of the exhibition and collection.
Goya in Madrid. The Tapestry Cartoons 1775-1794
Prado Museum, Madrid
28 November 2014 – 3 May 2015
Curators: Manuela Mena, Head Curator of the Goya and 18th Century Art Department, and Gudrun Maurer, Curator of the Goya and 18th Century Painting Department at the Museo del Prado
The exhibition of over 140 works proposes a new approach to Goya’s tapestry cartoons by treating them as illustrating the artist’s thought processes and development at the beginning of his career. Cartoons are shown alongside the tapestries for which they were made in the Escorial and Pardo palaces. They are compared with the work of contemporaneous and historic artists to illustrate Goya’s sources and inspiration.
Call for Papers/Convocatoria:
First Durham-Northumbria Colloquium on Medieval and Golden Age Hispanic Studies
Primer Coloquio de Estudios Hispánicos Medievales y del Siglo de Oro (Universidades de Durham y de Northumbria)
Venue: Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne), Sutherland Building
Date: 9-10 July 2015
Deadline 30 April 2015
Contact: Carlos Conde Solares: carlos.solares@northumbria.ac.uk; Lesley Twomey: lesley.twomey@northumbria.ac.uk; or Andy Beresford: a.m.beresford@durham.ac.uk
Individual papers as well as panel proposals are invited on any Hispanic Medieval or Golden Age topic, including the following:
GOYA: THE WITCHES AND OLD WOMEN ALBUM
26 February – 25 May 2015
The Courtauld Gallery
London
This major exhibition reunites all the surviving drawings from the Witches and Old Women Album for the first time, offering a fascinating and enlightening view of a very private and personal Goya.
Drawn in the last decade of his life, the album was never meant to be seen beyond a small circle of friends. Goya gave free rein to his creativity, inventing extraordinary images that range from the humorous to the sinister and the macabre.
In this exhibition visitors are invited to discover the private world of Goya’s boundless imagination, expressed through visions and nightmares, superstitions, and the problems of old age. Above all the drawings reveal Goya’s penetrating observation of human nature: our fears, weaknesses and desires.
For full details of opening times and entrance fees see www.courtauld.ac.uk
Film Screening
Carlos Amorales
The Man Who Did All Things Forbidden
Professor Dawn Adès will join Carlos in conversation, expanding on themes raised in this extraordinary work.
Wednesday 11 March 6.00 – 7.30 pm
Art Exchange
Univeristy of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ
Exhibition: Tuesday 10 February – Saturday 21 March 2015
Tues-Fri 11am-5pm Sat 12pm-4pm
Carlos Amorales lives and works in Mexico City and has shown internationally including MUCA in Mexico City, Manifesta 9, Berlin Biennial 8, Tate Modern and Liverpool Biennial. His film The Man Who Did All Things Forbidden was commissioned for the Berlin Biennial 8 in 2014. This will be its first showing in the UK.
Exploring questions of concealment and identity, Carlos Amorales works with film, drawing, painting and performance. The current exhibition at At Art Exchange focuses on his latest film which follows the contradictory impulses of a man who did all things forbidden. Stylistically strikingly, with strong visual imagery and use of sound, as much is implied as said in this captivating film.
Professor Adès is a Fellow of the British Academy, a former trustee of Tate, Professor of the History of Art at the Royal Academy and was awarded a CBE in 2013 for her services to art history. She has been responsible for some of the most important exhibitions in London and overseas over the past thirty years, including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Art in Latin America and Francis Bacon. Most recently she organised the highly successful exhibition to celebrate the centenary of Salvador Dalí at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice (2004) The Colour of my Dreams: The Surrealist Revolution in Art, at the Vancouver Art Gallery (2011), and was Associate Curator for Manifesta 9 (2012) . She has published standard works on photomontage, Dada, Surrealism, women artists and Mexican muralists.
EXHIBITION
(including Private View on 20 February – RSVP directly to MYA Gallery)
20 Feb- 3 April 2015
Kaleidoscope
work by artists who have created and led
the Urban & Contemporary art movement in Spain
MYA Gallery
150a Commericial Road
London E1 6NU
www.myagallery.com
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