Picasso: Paisajes de Barcelona, Museu Picasso, Barcelona, 29 May – 18 September. Exhibition focusing on local landscapes painted and drawn by Picasso mainly between 1895 and 1903 as he was developing his own personal style. He returned to paint the city once more in 1917 in a radically different manner. The works are shown beside archival photographs of the views. As the Ruiz Picasso family first settled in Barcelona close to the port, the earliest views (1895-99) are of the sea, its breakwaters, port facilities and nearby streets and factories. He later moved his attention to ceremonial and ancient Barcelona , focusing on the Romanesque and Gothic cloisters of its Cathedral and churches in the Ciutat Vella, and also developed skyline views as seen from his families rooftop terrace or azotea. In the early 20th century he increasingly developed views through windows, portals and doorways capturing, contrasting or merging the internal and external.
100 years of Gallegan art. Centro Sociocultural Fundación Novacaixagalicia, La Coruña
100 years of Gallegan art, Centro Sociocultural Fundación Novacaixagalicia, La Coruña, 19 June – 31 August.
Some 40 or so works covering the 19th century through to the end of the 20th century all available for sale. Major paintings from the early 19th century, some never before shown in public, include works by Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, such as his Young Serving Girl dressed in regional costume. Later Gallegan artists shown are Díaz Pardo, Colmeiro, Frau, Laxeiro, Maside, Arturo Souto, Manuel Pesqueira and include two paintings by the Coruñan artist Urbano Lugrís, one a landscape the other a genre painting. Early 20th-century art is represented by four canvases by Luis Seoane, showing his interpretation of cubist line and colour. Further 20th-century art includes sculptures in bronze, marble and wood by amongst other Xoán Piñeiro, Galicia’s leading sculptor of the 20th century.
Frivolite: Indumentaria del siglo XVIII. Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián
Frivolite: Indumentaria del siglo XVIII. Colección del Museo San Telmo
San Sebastián’s Museo San Telmo displays for the first time 42 items from its collection of 18th-century costume, 14 June – 28 September.
The exhibition includes entire dress combinations along with stockings and accessories such as fans and bags all placed in context by prints, paintings and fashion magazines of the period. It is accompanied by an audiovisual display of the conservation of the items before display. The great part of the museum’s costume collection was donated in the 1940s by the wife of the local painter Santiago Arcos Ugalde (Santiago, Chile 1852-1912 San Sebastián). The artist may have collected the costume as props to aid him in the production of his historical genre paintings or to use in the fancy-dress parties that they regularly attended. According to at least one label sewn into a jacket, some of the items belonged to the French actress Vieginie Dejazet, who specialized in playing historical roles of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Eduardo Chillida: San Sebastián
Eduardo Chillida (1924-2002) Bideak/Caminos/Paths, Sala kubo-kutxa Aretoa, San Sebastián, 20 June – 28 September, 2014.
The first survey exhibition since 1992 about the Basque sculptor to open in the city of his birth, where he lived and developed his career over more than 50 years. This exhibition of 140 works, large and small, sculptures and works on paper, particularly focuses on Chillida as a defender of the environment. The earliest work dates from 1954 and the latest from 2000, when he sculpted his homage to his wife Pili in alabaster, and includes drawings for his most emblematic monumental sculpture Peine del viento (1990), created at the suggestion of his wife, which has become symbolic of the San Sebastián coastline.
De Goya à Delacroix: Musée Rolin, Autun
De Goya à Delacroix: les relations artistiques de la famille Guillemardet, Musée Rolin, Autun, 21 June – 21 September 2014. Exhibition organized in collaboration with the Louvre about the Burgundian doctor and mayor of Autun (1791) Ferdinand Guillemardet, who became French ambassador to Spain and formed close family relations with Goya, who painted his portrait. A passionate art collector Guillemardet was one of the first to acquire a series of Goya’s Los Caprichos prints. His son subsequently became friends with Delacroix
ARTES visit: Contemplation of the Divine, Sotheby’s, London
Contemplation of the Divine, Sotheby’s, New Bond Street Galleries, 5-16 July 2014
ARTES Members’ visit: Monday, 7 July, 2:30PM.
Comprises a selection of predominantly Spanish, Italian and Early Netherlandish paintings and sculpture ranging in period from the Early Renaissance through until the late Baroque.
Link to the web catalogue
Link to the catalogue (page-turner version)
Sebastiâo Salgado, Brasilia
Sebastiâo Salgado: Genesis, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Brasilia, Brazil, 5 August – 29 September 2014. Another in the Brazilian-born photographer’s series of exhibitions of his black and white images of remote landscapes and their animal and human inhabitants. This exhibition of 216 works was previously shown at the Natural History Museum, London.
Dalí, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo
Dalí, 27 May – 22 September 2014, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro and on to the Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo in October 2014 and into 2015.
Exhibition of some 150 paintings, photographs, films and objects lent by Madrid’s Reina Sofía, the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí in Figures and the Dalí Musuem in St Petersburg, Florida. Curated by Montse Aguer the exhibition in the Rio de Janeiro venue will mark its 25th anniversary and open two weeks before football’s World Cup tournament starts in Brazil [for those wishing to combine their cultural with sporting tourism or wishing to find an alternative to football fever].
Last year’s Dalí retrospective proved the most popular exhibition in Europe attracting 790,090 people at the Pompidou Centre in Paris and 732,339 visitors to the Reina Sofía in Madrid.
Jaume Plensa, Chicago
Jaume Plensa: Private Dreams, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, 12 June – 27 September.
An exhibition of recent sculpture by the Catalan artist Plensa, featuring eight new works in a range of media, including bronze, glass and volcanic basalt. Coinciding with a new public art installation of four of his works in Chicago’s Millennium Park, which will remain on loan until autumn 2015. Both projects focus on the human figure, specifically the head as a sanctuary for dreams and hope. Plensa will also give a free public lecture at the Art Institute of Chicago on June 16 at 6pm.
An illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition with an essay by Clare Lilley, Director of Programmes, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK.
Murillo to Goya, Dallas and Madrid
The Spanish Gesture: Drawings from Murillo to Goya from the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Meadows Museum, Dallas, Texas, May 25-August 31, 2014.
The Kunsthalle of Hamburg holds one of the most significant collections of Spanish drawings found outside of Spain, containing works by Alonso Cano, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Juan de Valdés Leal and Francisco de Goya y Lucientes, among others. This is the first exhibition to present the collection on a large scale, 123 years after they were purchased. As part of the continued collaboration between the Meadows Museum and the Prado, the jointly organized exhibition will present around 80 drawings, first in Dallas, then at the Prado, Madrid.
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