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 byContinue reading “Exhibition: Francisco de Zurbarán, Madrid”

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.Continue reading “Exhibition: Josefa de Óbidos, Lisbon”

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.Continue reading “Exhibition: Lola Álvarez Bravo, Madrid”

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 inContinue reading “PhotoEspaña 2015”

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 startedContinue reading “Exhibition: Manuel Carillo, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid”

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 andContinue reading “Exhibition: Rosario Weiss, Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid”

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 drawnContinue reading “Exhibition: Vicente Carducho, Madrid, May – September 2016”

Re-envisioning the Virgin Mary: Colonial Painting from South America: Austin, Texas

Exhibition: Re-envisioning the Virgin Mary: Colonial Painting from South America Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas Two-part exhibition: (1) 20 September 2014 – 14 June 2015 (2) July 2015 – 2016 A two-part exhibition, the first phase of which features seven paintings on loan from two of the United States’ most distinguished collections of colonialContinue reading “Re-envisioning the Virgin Mary: Colonial Painting from South America: Austin, Texas”

Genaro Pérez Villaamil, Madrid

Exhibition: Views of Historic Monuments in Spanish Cities: The Romantic Painter Genaro Pérez Villaamil (Vistas monumentales de ciudades españolas. El pintor romántico Genaro Pérez Villaamil) Room 60 Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid 17 December 2014 – 6 September 2015 Curated by Javier Barón, this exhibition includes Villaamil’s large Diptych, formed from 42 individual scenes painted on tin-platesContinue reading “Genaro Pérez Villaamil, Madrid”

Juan Muñoz, Milan

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 exhibitionContinue reading “Juan Muñoz, Milan”