this museums open new season with a crucible of offers combining its leading role Pablo Picasso with safe values such as Paul Klee, Manolo Quejido or Italian Renaissance. The Malaga man monopolizes three exhibits this fall to mark the 50th anniversary of his death, celebrated in 2023.
Picasso warms up engines
this The Picasso Museum in Barcelona, the Mapfre Foundation and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid They are waiting for the death anniversary of the Malaga genius who will host 40 exhibitions, two congresses and numerous events in Europe and North America in 2023.
The Catalan museum focuses on the figure. Daniel Henry Kahnweiler (November) is a legend in the art world, a main promoter of cubist art, and a Picasso salesman at a major exhibition.
If Mapfre, Relationship between Malaga painter and Julio González (September) and how their relationship formed in Paris led to the emergence of a new type of iron sculpture that was key in the mid-20th century.
Finally, the Thyssen Bornemisza Museum opens its doors to Picasso (October), but this time Coco Chanel. The museum explores the synergy between the two geniuses who collaborated on various occasions and explores the influence of cubism on the fashion designer.
Spaniards in the Renaissance
Not everything is Picasso. Prado Bet It All on 16th Century Italian Art “The discovery of the Renaissance. Spanish artists in Naples at the beginning of the Cinquecento” (October).
This is the most ambitious of the museum exhibits in 2022 with its large volumes. The exhibition traces Spanish artists who settled in Naples – then the territory of Spain – in the 16th century and were steeped in the art revolution that Rome undertook. Leonardo, Raphael or Michelangelo.
Contemporary art enters the sanctuary of the classic in the fall with an exhibition dedicated to Fernando Zóbel, the founder and painter of the Cuenca Museum of Abstract Art, who paints for hours in his rooms. The exhibition (November) shows some of the notebooks he drew in the museum.
25 years of the Guggenheim
this Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Celebrating its 25th anniversary with an ambitious display of their own funds on display throughout the museum. Divided into three thematic axes, the exhibition presents for the first time a panoramic vision of the collection the museum has acquired since its foundation. An installation by Yayoi Kusama will be featured in the museum.
unknown and blessed
this Reina Sofia Museum a commitment to bring figures little known to the public. Celebrating the first monograph (October) in Europe dedicated to the versatile Guatemalan Margarita Azurdia (1931-1998) and Francesc Tosquelles recovers the figurepsychiatrist who studies medical experiments in the visual arts.
The art gallery also examines the trajectory of Spaniard Manolo Quejido (Seville, 1946) in a tour that covers his entire career, in “The Immeasurable Distance” (October) and makes bets on photography in his “Documentary genealogies”. Photograph 1848 – 1917”.
The Miró Foundation brings “Paul Klee and the secrets of nature” (October), a major exhibition of the German-Swiss artist that highlights the magic he feels while observing nature. The exhibition is accompanied by the works of women who have undertaken similar research but not received the same attention.
woman in photography
Mapfre Foundation’s Kbr headquarters and Foto Colectania will study in Barcelona (October) 40 years of work by North American Carrie Mae Weems (Oregón, 1953), a study at the intersection of issues such as gender, race, class society or politics (September).
Mapfre Foundation also opens A window into photographer Ilse Bing’s universe (September), tanned at the Bauhaus in Paris between the wars and exiled to the United States. His complex biography and short career – almost two decades – made it very difficult to collect the more than 200 images of the exhibition, which made it to Spain for the first time.
new comics
Comics and illustration have a special niche this season. “Comics” exhibition. Dreams and History reaching Barcelona CaixaForum” With works charting the past and present of the genre, the Barcelona Center for Contemporary Culture (CCCB) joins the universe of nine young avant-garde comics writers who revolutionized the national scene with their “Graphic Constellation” (December).
In a completely different recording, six mummies from Ancient Egypt will be set up in “Mummies: Rediscovering Six Lives,” produced in collaboration with the British Museum at the CaixaForum in Barcelona.
Source: Informacion
