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.
Lygia Clark, New York
Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988, MOMA, New York, 10 May – 24 August 2014.
The first major retrospective of the Brazilian artist (1920-1988) in North America, comprising almost 300 paintings, drawings, sculptures and participatory works. Organized around three themes, abstraction, concretism and the “abandonment” of art.
Hélio Oiticica, Dublin
Hélio Oiticica: Propositions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 19 July – 5 October 2014. A major retrospective exhibition of the work of the internationally renowned Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980), whose innovative interactive and experiential artworks have influenced many contemporary artists.
Visitors will be encouraged try on his wearable ‘Parangolés’ and enjoy dressing up as a mobile sculpture. The exhibition has been co-curated by the artist’s nephew, César Oiticica Filho.
Picasso, Quimper
Picasso: The Eternal Feminine, Musée des Beaux Arts, Quimper, Brittany, 23 May – 18 August 2014; and touring to the Musée des Beaux Arts, Pau.
Display of some 67 prints and drawings on loan from the Museo Picasso, Malaga focussing on Picasso’s female imagery created between 1927 and 1964. Accompanied by an exhibition catalogue with 70 illustrations.
Oscar Muñoz, Paris
Oscar Muñoz: Protographies, Jeu de Paume, Paris, 4 June – 21 September 2014.
Presents works by one of Colombia’s leading contemporary artists (born 1951) including hyper-realist large-scale charcoal drawings created between 1979-81, prints from the 1980s, film and recent ‘images in flux’.
The exhibition has been co-curated by the Jeu de Paume with the Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá.
Coll & Cortés, London
Coll & Cortés Fine Arts, London, will be taking part in Master Paintings Week in London 4- 11 July 2014.
The gallery will by exhibiting, amongst other works, a portrait by Alonso Cano (1601-1667) of Don Antonio Pedro Sancho Dávila Toledo y Álvarez Osorio (1615-1689), IV Marquis of Velada and X Marquis of Astorga, who was Madrid’s ambassador to Rome and Viceroy of Naples. He is shown wearing pince-nez spectacles known as quevedos in Spain after the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevcedo, (1580-1645).
The portrait is thought to have been painted between 1657 and 1660 during the artist’s second stay in Madrid. The portrait remained in the Velada family until 2006.
Ben Elwes, London
Ben Elwes Fine Art, Master Paintings Week, London, 4-11 July 2014, is showing a portrait of Admiral Abdelkader Perez, Moroccan ambassador to England in 1723 and 1737, whose Spanish family name suggests he was descended from morisco refugees from Spain. The portrait was painted by Michael Dahl (1659-1743), the London-based Swedish artist.
Fifty Years after Panofsky’s ‘Tomb Sculpture’, conference, London
21 June 2014
Conference on Fifty Years after Panofsky’s Tomb Sculpture: New Approaches, New Perspectives, New Material, Courtauld Institute of Art, London.
Will include two 25-minute papers on Portuguese tombs:
1) ‘Medieval Women commemorated as readers: the iconography of reading as a specific feature of female Portuguese medieval monuments’ delivered by Joana Ramôa Melo of the New University of Lisbon;
2) Does technical investigation fully answer art history questions? A case study of a Portuguese copper tomb from the early fifteenth century by Marisa Costa of the University of Lisbon.
Ticket price £16 (£11 students/concessions)
Sorolla: the Colour of the Sea, Barcelona
Sorolla: El Color del Mart (The Colour of the Sea), CaixaForum, Barcelona, 12 June – 14 September 2014. Previously shown at the Museo Sorolla, Madrid, from which many of the paintings have been selected along with works from the Museo Thyssen in Malaga. The exhibition focuses on Sorolla’s favourite theme, the sea and the many colours of its waters. A downloadable colour-illustrated leaflet in Spanish can be found at http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es/deployedfiles/obrasocial/Estaticos/pdf/Nuestros_centros/caixaforumbarcelona/Sorolla_cfbcn_es.pdf
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