After a long time without presenting you the monthly highlights, this February we are looking forward to bringing you some suggestions. Discover the seven exhibitions that we propose for this February:
These are some of the art proposals that can be enjoyed this February. There are proposals of all kinds, 19th century impressionism, Kandinsky, Picasso, Rodin as well as contemporary art by Tomás Saraceno, Chema Madoz or Olafur Eliasson..
1-Deep into Picasso’s notebooks
In one of the most visited museums in Barcelona, the Museo Picasso, we can enjoy the temporary exhibition “Picasso. Els quaderns” until April 4, 2021. Without his notebooks the artist’s work is not understood. In them he researched and experimented in order to solve the problems that arose in his creative process.
“It’s Well Pulled” from Capricho no. 17 by Goya and a copy of it made by Picasso in his notebook
These notebooks, not only for their usefulness, are of great importance in the life of the painter from Malaga. In one of them he even wrote in 1907 “Je suis le cahier” (I am the notebook). Most of them he kept all his life. In this way the public can learn more about the artist and the way he conceived his works. The Picasso Museum in Barcelona preserves 19 notebooks of the 167 he used between 1894 and 1967, of which 17 were donated by the artist in 1970 and belong to Picasso’s childhood and youth.
Work “First Communion” by Pablo Picasso and its previous study
Where: Museo Picasso (Carrer de Montcada, 15-23, 08003 Barcelona).
When: from 18/12/2020 to 04/04/2021.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00h to 19:00h.
Tickets: Here you can check their price and purchase them.
2-When things are not as they seem to be
In the capital of León we can find The nature of things and their echo in the collection of Chema Madoz at the Patio Herreriano until May 2. This exhibition shows how Madoz lets his imagination run wild and experiments with natural elements. He combines leaves, branches, wood, clouds, stones, flowers in an original way, changing their function, making curious associations, etc.
In Madoz’s works a dialogue is created between the artist and the viewers, the latter must rethink the usual meaning of objects. In this context, images of Ángel Ferrant’s works based on deconstructed and recomposed objects, as well as Joan Brossa’s sculptures.
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Where: second floor of the Patio Herreriano (Calle Jorge Guillén, 6, 47003 Valladolid).
When: from 16/01/2021 to 02/05/2021.
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm, Sundays until 3:00 pm.
Free admission
3-Color and abstraction colonize the Guggenheim in Bilbao
The Guggeinheim Bilbao has two very interesting temporary exhibitions on Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson.
The first is about the Russian artist Vasily Kandisky, a pioneer of abstraction, and will run until May 23. His works were very innovative at the beginning of the 20th century. In addition, this artist was very closely linked to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. This exhibition displays works belonging to the Foundation’s extensive holdings of the painter in order to illustrate the Russian artist’s career.
Composition 8 by Vasily Kandinsky that can be seen at the Guggenheim
The second of these is entitled Olafur Eliasson: in real life. This exhibition evokes current issues through around thirty works made between 1990 and the present. These works are sculptures, photographs, paintings and installations, in them Eliasson plays with colors, reflections… using different materials such as mustard, glacier water, fog, light, etc.
Beauty (Beauty) and In real life (In real life) by Olafur Eliasson
Where: Guggenheim Bilbao(Abandoibarra Etorb., 2, 48009 Bilbao
When: Kandinsky: from 20/11/2020 to 23/05/2021; Olafur Eliasson: from 14/02/2020 to 11/04/2021.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm.
Tickets: Here you can check their price and purchase them.
4-Deep into impressionism in an immersive experience
At Bassins de Lumières are carried out immersive digital exhibitions that refer to contemporary art and the most renowned artists.His new exhibition Monet, Renoir, Chagal… Voyages en Méditerranée focuses on impressionist artists such as Monet, Renoir, Chagal, Signac, Derain, Dufy, etc. It also focuses this artistic current in the Mediterranean space.
Screening of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s work, Bal du moulin de la Galette
The space itself is also spectacular, it is a submarine base built by Germans and Italians during the Second World War during the Nazi occupation of France to house its fleet. From the 60s it began to attract the attention of artists and his career so far has been closely linked to art.
View of “Au temps d’harmonie, l’âge d’or n’est pas dans le passé, il est dans l’avenir” by Paul Signac
Where: Bassins de Lumières (Base sous-marine de Bordeaux, Impasse Brown de Colstoun, 33300 Bordeaux).
When: from 05/02/2021 to 02/01/2022.
Tickets: Once tickets are available for re-purchase, they can be purchased here.
Hours: Until further notice it will remain closed by order of the French Government.
5-An exhibition: two different places
The Exhibition Picasso-Rodin, une exposition, deux lieux is simultaneous at the Museum Picasso and the Museum Rodin, both in Paris and will be on view from 9 February to 18 July. This exhibition is a dialogue between the creative processes of the sculptor and the painter. Although some links were already known, new ones are presented such as serial work, experimentation or mutation of forms.
“The Kisser” by Picasso and the “Kisser” by Rodin
This is the first time that these two museums have joined forces. This exhibition will feature 500 works, paintings, sculptures, drawings, archival documents and photographs that invite visitors to reinterpret the artistic journey of both artists.
Rodin’s “Dance Movement” and Picasso’s Blue Acrobat
Where: Musée Rodin (77 rue de Varenne, 75007 Paris) and Musée national Picasso-Paris (5 rue de Thorigny – 75003 Paris).
When: from 09/02/2021 -July 18, 2021.
Tickets: Here you can consult the different ticket options for the Rodin Museum and here for the Picasso Museum.
6-Navigate the disruptive proposal of Tomás Saraceno
At the Cisternerne museum in Copenhagen from February 9 through November 30 we can delve into the proposal of Tomás Saraceno under the name Event Horizon. This Argentinean artist carries out an exploration of alternative forms of living and housing based on studies. These refer to spiders, to astrophysics, to philosophy and engineering.
The works of Tomas Saracebo at the Cisterne Museum in Denmark
A few months ago in Magazine Horse we told you about the Cisternerne Museum in Copenhagen and its singularities. It is a contemporary art museum located at the highest point of the Danish capital and established in a former cistern that supplied water to the city. The fact that there is water allows navigate and enjoy the art with a different experience to the conventional ones.
Where: Cisternerne (Bag Søndermarken, 2000 Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, Denmark.
When: from 09/021 to 3011/2021.
Hours: Closed until March 2 by order of the Danish Government.
Tickets: Here you can check their price and purchase them.
7-Learn how the Bauhaus movement came to be forged
There is no better place than the Vienna Furniture Museum to observe the vestiges of the Bauhaus art movement. This current is still very present today in current design for being an icon of modernism. However, it is also a style full of myths. The exhibition From Arts & Crafts to theBauhaus. Art and Design: a New Unity! seeks to put into context this movement that lasted from 1919 to 1933.
Part of the exhibition From Arts & Crafts to theBauhaus. Art and Design: a New Unity!
This exhibition explores how the Bauhaus movement emerged. For this it reviews the emergence of modernism in Europe, passing through the Arts and Crafts movement, the Glasgow School, Viennese modernism, the Deutscher Werkbund and the Dutch De Stijl.
The English model in the exhibition From Arts & Crafts to theBauhaus. Art and Design: a New Unity!
When: from October 21 hto 9May2021.
Where: Möbelmuseum Wien (Andreasgasse 7, 1070 Vienna).
Hours: Until further notice will remain closed by government order.
Tickets: Here you can check their price and purchase them.
Image credits: Museu Picasso- Gasull Fotografia, Guggenheim Bilbao – Kandinsky and Olafur Eliasson; Succesion Picasso and musée Rodin -Hervé Lewandowski and Jérome Manoukian, Cisternerne: Jens Markus, Bassins de Lumières, Möbelmuseum Wien-Katleen Arthen.
We hope you have been inspired and very soon you will be able to visit them and enjoy their works. With so much variety there is sure to be one that catches your attention.
