At a moment in humanity when time has never been so difficult to find and keep, Polish artist Alicja Kwade (1979) invites us to pass through, listen to and observe space-time.
Reviews
Charlotte Salomon, the Curative Nature of Art
The work of Charlotte Salomon contains the legend of this woman artist discovered long after her death.
Mela Muter, finally!
An exhibition in the Art Museum of Girona brings us the visual and written work of this Polish artist who made her mark on Girona at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Dalí under the genius of Raphael
Raphael’s “Madonna of the Rose” leaves the Prado Museum to visit the Teatre-Museu Dalí, and make the dream of the genius from the Empordà come true.
The face as a flag
Foto Colectania proposes the topic of identity through photography, delving into the extraordinary Walther Collection.
Picasso and Sabartés, forever friends
Jaume Sabartés, at certain times proved to be a solid part of Picasso’s daily life.
Berga i Boada: sex and violence
Josep Berga i Boada is revealed as one of the most interesting Catalan creators of the turn of the twentieth century.
Picasso and Picabia: forced parallels
“Picasso – Picabia. Painting in question” is one of the best artistic exhibits this year.
The voice of the weakest
Beyond violence, war and politics, there are people who suffer, lives destroyed and incurable traumas. Turkish artist Erkan Özgen give a voice to these silenced stories.
Liberxina, the fuel of creative freedom
In Catalonia, at the height of Francoism, one group of artists was in a hurry to turn the rules upside down and work across disciplines.
Vindications of Ismael Smith
In 1951 Isaac, Ana Maria, Ismael and Paco Smith Marí packed up the contents of their luxury mansion in Irvington, on the banks of the Hudson, and a favourite place of residence for the most accomplished New Yorkers.
Lee Miller: “I would rather take a photo than be one”
Lee Miller was no “femme fatale”, she was a “femme différente”.
The Knight’s Home
An alternative reading of the exhibition “The Splendour of Catalan Castles” at the Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia.
The Genius and Figure of Manuel Duque
From time to time the Vila Casas Foundation has little great successes despite the fact that they often become fogged by an excess of eclecticism and exhibitional hyperactivity.
The Timelessness of Frederic Amat
It is very difficult to resist the charm of the cabinets of curiosities.
Lee Miller, a Genius in the Net of British Surrealism
If there was ever an exhibition that we could say “has many different readings”, without falling into either clichés or exaggeration, it has to be “Lee Miller and Surrealism in Britain”, which is currently on at the Miró Foundation in Barcelona.
Picasso Blue and Pink, in Paris
If Pablo Picasso had died in 1904, before moving permanently to France, he would still be in all the history of art textbooks in the world. The proof is the exhibition Picasso bleu & rose, at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris.
Toulouse-Lautrec and New Technology
An exhibition has just opened at the CaixaForum Barcelona with a misleading title, but one which is nonetheless worth seeing. If only to be the witnesses to one of the most important revolution in cultural history.
MACBA. 34th Time Lucky?
Since the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) finally opened its doors to the public in November 1995, there have been 34 presentations of its collection.
macaparana-barcelona or ethereal sensuality
Brazilian artist José de Souza Oliveira Filho, better known as Macaparana, exhibits for the first time in our country. A distinguished artist whose work makes constant refences to the “Paulista” geometry of São Paulo: a reference to the geometrical abstraction of the Russian constructivists.
Uncertainty, flickering… and a Dramamine to boot
Dalí grumbled in front of a work by Alexander Calder: “if there is one thing you can ask of a sculpture, it is that it shouldn’t move”.
Brushstrokes of the Opera
Two exhibitions celebrate the new opera season at the Gran Teatre del Liceu.
Art for After the Shipwreck
Vicenç Viaplana exhibits a visual symphony at the Galería Marc Domènech with indirect allusions to the economic disaster of 2008.
The Photographic Revolution of the “Fifth Generation”
An exhibition at the Virreina which takes us through the aesthetic revolution of Catalan photography in the 1970s.
The Case of Saul Leiter
The photographer Saul Leiter was a pioneer in the conscious and deliberate use of colour as an element of expression. An exhibition and a book have come out in the same year in Barcelona.
The Resurrection of Gustau Violet
Three recent initiatives have revived interest in the work of the Rousillon sculptor Gustau Violet.