A growing convergence between art and science, a commitment to new narratives, and an increasingly active participation of the public visiting their rooms. The main culturally connected lines of action of the La Caixa Foundation for this year and the coming years, in which the exhibitions take the leading role, can be summarized in this way. Currently, this institution has nine CaixaForum centers in Spain that participate in the CaixaForum. CosmoCaixa More than in Barcelona, but with the events it organizes in other cities of our geography, its tentacles are getting wider. Perhaps the strongest network of cultural organizations in Spain.
This morning the main novelties of the new season were presented in the Catalan capital. 34 exhibitions, 10 of which were premieres. A program created with the help of leading international cultural and scientific institutions, aiming to connect exhibits, even artifacts or objects from the past, with the great debates and problems of the present.
The fourth wave of feminism, for example, is a tsunami that ravages the world, no matter how hard some try to resist, and its manifestations go beyond civic mobilizations or private politics, sneaking into museums and exhibition halls, even where our art is concentrated. Views of the past, present and future world are collected. respected and feared. Feminine power in the world of art and faith which title CaixaForum Madrid opens its new season from September 27 and focuses on the spiritual impact of women in different cultures throughout history.
The exhibition is the result of a new collaboration between the La Caixa Foundation and the La Caixa Foundation. british museumIt covers a total of 166 works, from the Greek sculpture of Aphrodite to the works of contemporary artists. Marina Abramovich. A dialogue between sacred objects and contemporary art that explores the role of goddesses, witches and other spiritual beings in different feminine perceptions and invites critical reflection on gender stereotypes. “We’ve been working on this for several years because it’s clear we’re in a time of change,” he said. Isabella Salgado“We like that the public expects their active participation, that contemporary social discussions take place in our rooms,” said the La Caixa Foundation exhibition president.
30 meters dinosaur
The highlight of the season in Barcelona will be the arrival of various cities in the city. Patagonia DinosaursProminent among them 30 meters long copy of a specimen Patagotitan swimsuitlargest ever discovered and one that lived in this vast region of southern Argentina a hundred million years ago. Florence GigenaThe communications director of the Egidio Feruglio Museum of Paleontology (MEF), where they came from, said at the presentation that three containers with replicas of the dinosaurs are currently traveling by boat, of which only the largest is found in two.
“This original dinosaur was found very recently in terms of paleontology, almost seven years ago, by a rural resident who did his daily work with a shepherd dog,” said Gigena. He thought it was a round stone used to play Italian bocce ball among rural residents in Argentine Patagonia. [un juego similar a la petanca]”. This round stone turned out to be actually the tip of a femur, 2.40 m long and weighing 600 kg. The excavation to extract this fragment alone took six days. After passing through CosmoCaixa from 25 October, the exhibition will take place in Madrid next July. it will stop.
At the CaixaForum Barcelona, the course will open with another exhibition on the planet featuring an important living weight that accompanies or accompanies us. Art and nature. A century of biomorphism Kandinsky reflects our relationship with animals or plants by embarking on a journey through the works of the sacred cows of contemporary art such as Miró, Le Corbusier, Pamela Rosenkranz or Jeremy Deller in different disciplines such as painting, sculpture, photography, cinema or art. design. In this case, the Pompidou Center in Paris presents a total of 80 works distributed across four areas: ‘Transformation’, ‘Imitation’, ‘Creation’ and ‘The Threat’. He arrives in Madrid on 19 February.
sincere berlanga
Film director Luis Garcia Berlanga The big name in CaixaForum centers programming and how could it be otherwise, he started his career in the center of his hometown, Valencia. Berlanga’s interior He presents a candid portrait of the filmmaker through material that his son saved and, with the help of the La Caixa Foundation, cataloged and digitized from several boxes found in his personal archive.
“It will be an unusual and unprecedented exhibition because it is based on my father’s entire archive. The folder where he kept his school notebooks in his childhood or the letters he wrote to his parents when he was hospitalized. It will be to review everything that no one knows about him,” his son said in the presentation: Jose Luis Garcia BerlangaHe is also a filmmaker and also a cook. “From his studio to the cinema, he has a set design that impresses him and how what comes out of the boxes, through audiovisual means, influences what he does… I think The exhibition he most wanted to see”.
Berlanga Jr., who spent years talking to political leaders to see what could be done with this material, pointed out that this exhibit was only “the tip of the iceberg” until he finally contacted the La Caixa Foundation via email from the suggestion box. Among the things this archive offers are, for example, 56 unpublished screenplays, correspondence from the Blue Section, school notebooks filled with drawings and poems, or the correspondence that Juan Antonio Bardem wrote in preparation. Welcome Mr Marshall. But the substantial collection of erotic books and magazines is not there.already sold to collectors (magazines, to Santiago Segura), but his father’s erotomaniac side will be reflected in the example, there is no date yet for his arrival in the capital.
Botany and Rubens with Prado
On the foundation’s collaboration with major cultural institutions such as the British Museum, New York Museum of Natural Sciences or Prado Museum the manager of the latter spoke at the presentation, Miguel FalomirCommenting on the virtues of these synergies, he describes it in his case as “an exemplary relationship to bring culture closer to society, a model of cooperation between public and private”. Thanks to this collaboration, Prado was able to reach “14 cities from Girona to Cádiz and from La Coruña to Tenerife”. The best exemplary exhibition XIX. century of the portraitfollowing him tournament at the next stop via different CaixaForums Zaragoza. Falomir announced some future collaborations that the two teams are already working on: one-on-one Botany and works of Prado and the other focused rubens.
This morning’s presentation also served to highlight: permanent return to normalcy This last year, after the pandemic and the corresponding years of hangovers, it required it. Elisa Durán, the director of the foundation, this year 4.5 million visitors, figures similar to those recorded before the outbreak of covid. Durán also celebrated the success of CaixaForum València, the last of the centers included in its network, surpassing one million visits in its first year.
The success of the platform was also celebrated online free content CaixaForum+Although it has not yet reached its one-year lifespan, “it already has more than a hundred thousand subscribers, but most importantly, it has 25,000 repeat subscribers who log in an average of five times a month and spend 16,000 hours a month. Therefore, the goal of reaching and completing everything that happens at the CaixaForum and CosmoCaixa physical centers is allowed by the platform,” Durán said, confirming that the Foundation’s budget has remained stable.