This August is a vibrant month full of artistic novelties to enjoy during the holiday season.
The Dalí Theatre-Museum celebrates 50 years with an evening programme of art. The Tambien gallery is hosting the exhibition Howard Greenberg Tambien, while in Menorca you can enjoy Stone and Salt. The creative worlds of KAWS and Andy Warhol come together, and Barcelona hosts the iconic career of filmmaker Agnès Varda. Rounding out the seven new art releases, Serpentine Galleries shows the revelations of Judy Chicago, and MACBA premieres The Big Lie of Death.
Nights of art and magic on the 50th anniversary of the Dalí Theatre-Museum
To enjoy this August, the Dalí Theatre-Museum will be celebrating its 50th anniversary with the Sincronies programme, bringing together music, performance and dance. Every week, from Monday to Wednesday, 12 artists will integrate their works into the museum’s spaces, creating a unique experience under the night sky. Each performance will take place unannounced, with an aura of mystery, making the audience part of unexpected artistic journeys. The programme not only pays tribute to the museum’s half-century, but also revives Dalí’s theatrical and enigmatic spirit.
The director Fèlix Roca with Salvador Sunyer and Montse Aguer.Sincronies is divided into three different blocks per week, with performances starting at 10pm until 1am. The first week, the quartet Leos Quartet will bring the walls of the museum to life through the pieces of J. S. Bach. From the 12th to the 14th the texts of Lorca and Pla talking about Dalí will resonate through the dramatised voices of Mercè Pons, Santi Ricart, Albert Prat and Daniela Brown. Meanwhile, in the last week, contemporary dance, directed by Lorena Nogal of the Hotel Col-lectiu Escènic, will round off the August evenings.
When will it take place? From 5 to 21 August 2024
Where will it take place? Plaça Gala i Salvador Dalí, 5, Figueres, Girona
Time: From 22.00h to 01.00h
Tickets: You can buy your ticket here
An artistic journey into the essence of Menorca
On the island of Menorca, the ESCAT gallery is hosting the exhibition Stone & Salt, a show that fuses painting, film and interior design to pay homage to the island’s traditional architecture. The project has brought together painter Bea Sarrias, filmmaker Morrosko Vila-San-Juan and interior design studio Quintana Partners to reveal the essence of the place. Through a series of paintings, sketches and drawings inspired by Menorcan houses, they explore the local architecture and interior design, while Vila-San-Juan captures the creative process on camera.
The painting Light and Silence, Bea Sarrias, 2024.
As well as extolling the island’s architectural heritage, the artists also delve into the influence of British colonisation that has been maintained in its design. With the collaboration of the three art geniuses, the exhibition will offer a visual and auditory journey that will allow us to observe the connections between local materials, the nature that surrounds Menorca and its traditional history.
When will it take place? From 12 to 21 August 2024
Where? Avinguda de Josep Mª Quadrado, 41, Mahón, Balearic Islands
Opening hours: Open by appointment
The feminist universe of Judy Chicago
London’s Serpentine Gallery has presented Judy Chicago: Revelations, the first major exhibition by pioneering artist Judy Chicago. The exhibition brings together new and previously unseen works, preparatory studies as well as audiovisual materials, offering the public an immersion into Chicago’s universe. The exhibition highlights the artist’s commitment to craft and experimentation, and offers a unique insight into her six-decade career as an artist.
The interior of the installation with the work In the Beginning, from Birth Project, 1982, Judy Chicago.
The exhibition is composed of immersive multimedia elements, augmented reality and video interviews, creating an interactive experience where visitors can observe and be part of the works. As the gallery indicates, Revelations takes its name from a manuscript written by Chicago in the early 1970s. This writing offers a critical vision on equality, the figure of women, climate justice, birth and human history. With such debatable topics, and not to miss the opportunity, the lyrics that challenged the male-dominated art scene 50 years ago are transformed into visual art.
When will it take place? From 23 May to 1 September 2024.
Where? London W2 3XA, United Kingdom
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10.00am to 6.00pm
Tickets: You can buy your ticket here
Decades and emotions enclosed between portraits
Ibiza’s Tambien Gallery opens its doors to the exhibition Howard Greenberg Tambien. The exhibition invites you to travel through documentary photography from the first decades of the 20th century to the present day. Throughout the tour, pieces by Henri Cartier-Bresson, William Klein, Wim Wenders, among others, are exhibited. The meanings and feelings masked in a body were captured through the camera, and the exhibition offers a reinterpretation of the world.
Bruce Davidson’s photograph, Brooklyn Gang, 1959, capturing three young men having a picnic.
The exhibition was born from the connection between the two artistic worlds of the Balearic and New York galleries. Its thematic diversity allows us to explore feelings and emotions encapsulated in portraits, and invites us to reflect while observing carefree characters, children pointing a gun or smoking, as in the image Amanda and her cousin Amy, by Mary Ellen Mark in 1990.
When will the exhibition run? Until 30 September 2024
Where? Carrer Vénda de Parada, 20, Santa Gertrudis, Ibiza, Balearic Islands
Opening hours: Tuesday to Friday from 10:30 am to 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Saturday from 10.30h to 14.00h.
Wu Tsang defies death at MACBA
Continuing with the art novelties, the artist Wu Tsang arrives at MACBA with the film installation, La gran mentira de la muerte, a work that reinterprets the myth of Georges Bizet’s opera, Carmen. Tsang wanted to explore the narrative of opera with the performative traditions of flamenco and bullfighting. Themes such as gender, race, colonialism and class are portrayed and invite a dialogue about them, about the different stereotypes that exist in society.
Vanessa Montoya representing the bullfighting figure who faces death and passes sentence on the animal with which she fights. Photo: Miquel Coll.
Carmen is a symbol of freedom and rebellion, as well as sacrifice and meets a deadly end. Thus, Wu Tsang has wanted to bring the audience a unique experience where death becomes an immersive experience, which not only reveals emotions of tragedy, but also offers different visions to face the complexities of the opera myth. With an open space, and multi-channel sound, the atmosphere remains tense as death lurks, but invites you to question the inevitability of running away from it.
When does it run? From 20 July to 3 November 2024.
Where? Plaça dels Àngels, 1, Barcelona
Opening hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 11.00h to 19.30h. Saturday from 10.00h to 20.00h and Sunday from 10.00h to 15.00h.
Tickets: You can buy your ticket here
The innovative and revolutionary journey of Agnès Varda
The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona presents an exhibition dedicated to Agnès Varda, an emblematic figure who revolutionised the art of cinema. Agnès Varda: Photographing, Filming, Recycling takes us into the world of the artist and her films. The exhibition traces her life and legacy, through installations, short films and personal objects, reflecting her constant struggle to experiment and innovate with more than 40 films.
From left to right: Capture of Dalí in Portlligat in 1955. Agnès Varda during the film Pointe Courte.
The exhibition brings together for the first time in Catalonia four art installations by Varda, along with a selection of short films that reflect her ability to fuse documentary and fiction. It also reflects her life marked by her travels, her children and her social commitment to issues such as feminism, the hippie movement and the struggle for civil rights. Along the way, we find unpublished photographs and reports, including a series of his trip to Catalonia in 1955, where he met the artist Salvador Dalí in Portlligat.
When? From 18 July to 8 December 2024.
Where? Carrer de Montalegre, 5, Barcelona
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 11.00h to 20.00h
KAWS and Warhol on the 30th anniversary
This year, The Warhol Museum celebrates 30 years since its opening, and presents a unique exhibition: KAWS + Warhol. The exhibition examines the darker themes that run through the works of both artists, contrasting sinister narratives alongside bright colours and pop culture references. From skulls to road accidents, the exhibition presents death as a spectacle.
The figure Companion, 2020, by KAWS joins Warhol’s Ambulance Disaster, 64-65. In this case, they relate disasters captured in the last century to large figures symbolising the end of life.
The American artist has sought to pay homage to the marketing Warhol adopted with a new series of paintings, sculptures and installations. These works, related to his collaboration with General Mills, feature iconic characters on mythical cereal boxes such as Reese’s Puffs and Count Chocula. In addition, KAWS presents a giant wooden sculpture in Pop Park, visible from the museum entrance, symbolising the boundary between art and public space, aligning with The Warhol’s new initiative: The Pop District.
When does it run? 18 May to 20 January 2025
Where: 117 Sandusky St, Pittsburgh, USA
Hours: Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday from 10am to 5pm. Friday from 10am to 10pm.
