Featured Exhibition: Balenciaga, Shaping Fashion, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, until 10 November 2019

A version of the V&A’s exhibition Balenciaga, Shaping Fashion is now showing at the Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, until 10 November 2019. The Spanish couturier, whose female dress and master tailoring was admired by Coco Chanel and Christian Dior, was one of the most innovative and influential fashion designers of the 20th century. The Australian exhibitionContinue reading “Featured Exhibition: Balenciaga, Shaping Fashion, Bendigo Art Gallery, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia, until 10 November 2019”

European Capital of Culture 2016: San Sebastián

1516-2016. Peace Treaties San Sebastián San Telmo Museum of Basque History & Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea 17 June – 2 October 2016 The main art exhibition of this year’s European Capital of Culture: San Sebastián (jointly with Wroclaw, Poland) throughout 2016. Shows 300 art works on the theme of war and peace. Includes works by Goya,Continue reading “European Capital of Culture 2016: San Sebastián”

Gonzalo Chillida (San Sebastián)

Gonzalo Chillida Kuba-Kutxa Fondazioa San Sebastián 22 April – 3 July 2016 First major retrospective of the San Sebastián-born artist displaying some 130 paintings, drawings, prints and photographs from five decades of his career: Landscapes and still lives through his abstract images of the 1950s and 1960s, culminating with his sea and cloudscapes.

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, paintingsContinue reading “Frivolite: Indumentaria del siglo XVIII. Museo San Telmo, San Sebastián”

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 andContinue reading “Eduardo Chillida: San Sebastián”