Madrid is a good value for a getaway for the weekend or longer, just a stone’s throw from Asturias. With autumn comes a new season, too, in the main museums and art centers of the Spanish capital, where you get a kick out of it and an exhibition jumps out, each more interesting and attractive. For those who will be down in the city by the end of the year, the “Good life” supplement features a selection of the main exhibits.
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Baroness Thyssen has prepared what will most certainly be the most visited exhibition of the season: “Picasso / Chanel”. The painter and designer collaborated professionally and met personally in Paris of the Roaring Twenties. The exhibition explores the relationship between them, presents four major successive chapters in chronological order, and covers the cubist period from about 1910 to 1930, when Picasso painted Gabrielle. . It is embodied in Chanel designs. It’s open until January 15, as is “Hyperrealism in the Blanca and Borja Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection,” where the Baroness has definitively reconciled with her son and daughter-in-law, where she opened her doors to show some. acquisitions: eight works of the main representatives of hyperrealism, such as Richard Estes, Charles Bell, Don Jacot, Bertrand Meniel, Roberto Bernardi and Raphaella Spence.
CaixaForum
The modern and active center has three exhibits for the general public. “Egyptian Mummies” closes shortly after, until October 26; and “Extended visions. Photography and experimentation” on the history of the experimental discipline will open on 1 December. Until January 8, there is Nikola Tesla, the “genius of modern electricity”, who is considered the pioneer of current technology.
Prado Museum
Until January, the great national art gallery displays the pictorial delights of the exquisite Marquis of Santillana (1398-1458), a “cultured and powerful nobleman” who patronized the art of his time. The same period, Cinquecento but Naples, will open next October 18 and stars in the exhibition dedicated to Spanish artists in the Italian city. “Zóbel” will arrive in mid-November, dedicated to spreading the figure of the Spanish abstract painter perhaps unknown to the general public.
CentroCentro (formerly Cibeles)
The Catalan architect Gaudi was installed in the Madrid palace from the same Friday to March. There are more than 150 works.
Ibercaja Delights
The universe of film director Tim Burton will delight his fans unconditionally. From Thursday to Sunday, December 11th.
America House and Mexico House
In the second, the day is counting down to the closing of the event, which is dedicated to the famous Frida Kahlo with 31 original works and 91 photographs. In the first, they display photographs of different artists.
Latin America until 7 January.
Fine Arts Circle
The adventures of Belgian creator Hergé and Tintin inspire an exhibition with an external projection, open until 19 February: Tintin’s giant rocket docked at the intersection of Gran Vía and Alcalá.
Channel Foundation
“Alice in Wonderland” and its surreal world have captivated artists such as Dalí, Ernst, and Laurencin, whose engravings are on display until January 8, and John Tenniel’s illustrations for the first edition of the novel.
Juan Mart Foundation
Open to the public until January 15 “Stop, instant. Date of photograph”, from birth to 1840. “The works are period replicas from two exceptional, pioneering and complementary collections: those that have been put together for over four decades by Dietmar Siegert in Germany and by Enrique Ordóñez and Isabel Falcón in Spain,” they explain.
Mapfre Foundation
Until January 8, you can see the metal sculpture exhibition based on the relationship between Julio González and Pablo Picasso, as well as the work of both artists at the funeral monument of poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1928.
San Fernando Royal Academy
Until December 11, the main character is painter and academic Álvaro Delgado Ramos, on the occasion of the centennial of the birth of an artist who has developed a large part of his work and is closely connected with Navia, whom he has been adopted since 1975. .
They will open a large exhibition dedicated to the pharaoh Tutankhamun on November 4 in Matadero; “Daughters of the Nile” at the Palacio de Alhajas until 31 December; The Masaveu Foundation displays its collection of 19th century paintings at its headquarters in Madrid, before being seen in Oviedo; The Sorolla Museum, on the other hand, exhibits the darkest works of the Valencian painter, who shine with “Sorolla in Black” until the end of November.