June is preparing to be a dynamic month in the art world with several exhibitions and fairs. To that end, we run through seven national and international art novelties that should be bookmarked on the cultural agenda.
Art Basel returns to Basel for another June, while Can Art Fair welcomes contemporary creativity. Robbie Williams fights for mental health with his new exhibition at the Museo Moco in Barcelona, and the traditional Japanese essence takes over the Palau Martorell and the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. In addition, we can enjoy the new edition of the Sónar Festival or discover the Sleeping Beauties exhibition at the MET.
Art Basel and Basilea
Every year Basel brings together thousands of people to discover and enjoy art with the Art Basel editions. This 2024, 285 national and international galleries are showing their artworks; from paintings and sculptures tophotography and digital art. Among the novelties this year, 22 participants are added for the first time, consolidating, once again, the quality of the fair worldwide. In addition to the classic sections; Galleries, Feature, Statements and Edition, there will also be 70 large-scale installations in the Unlimited sector. Extending the art through the streets of the city, the Parcours program will run along the Clarastrasse to the Middle Bridge connecting the fairgrounds across the Rhine River.
Parcours will take place along the Clarastrasse to the Middle Bridge connecting the fairgrounds across the Rhine River;
The installation Flaka Haliti, Whose Bones, 2022, by Deborah Schamoni.
Through the projects that will be shown, they want to reflect on current issues such as globalization and ecology. Among the works we find the installation that unites shadow games and digital animation by artist Lap-See Lam, or the portable garden by Lois Weinberger, which attracts nature to flood the urban world through birds and insects. In addition, the Parcours Night, scheduled for Wednesday, June 12, promises to be an activity full of live performances, and with extended hours so that everyone can enjoy the art.
When? June 13-16, 2024.
Where?Messeplatz, 10, Basel, Switzerland.
Hours: Tuesday to Saturday from 11.00 am to 7.00 pm.
Tickets: You can purchase the ticket.
The immersive journey of Sónar 2024
The Sónar Festival returns with a new edition that promises to rock Barcelona with a combination of electronic music and immersive experiences. This year, Sónar by Day and Sónar by Night will bring together an impressive lineup of artists, including Laurent Garnier, Charlotte de Witte or The Martinez Brothers, mixing pop, electronic or flamenco. In addition to the music, the artistic collaborations are the protagonists. The audiovisual installation Liquid Strata, created by oceanographer Joan Llort and artists Entangled Others Studio and Daphne Xanthopoulou, will allow us to delve into the deep-ocean.
AI will be one more year linked to music, and Sónar presents projects to innovate.
Another of the great novelties is the union of Sónar+D and Casa Batlló that opens The Cube, a space created by The Chemical Brothers and the artists Smith & Lyall. The 360-degree installation, Music: Response, invites us to enter the world of digital art along with electronic music. In addition, Smith & Lyall will participate in Sónar+D on June 14 with the session In Conversation: Music, where they will explain the details of the virtual universe created together with The Chemical Brothers.
When? June 13-15, 2024.
Where? Daytime Sonar: Fira Montjuic. Av. Rius i Taulet, s/n, Barcelona. Sonar by night: Fira Gran Via L’Hospitalet Av. Joan Carles I .
Schedule: Daytime Sonar: Thursday from 15.00h to 00.00h. Friday and Saturday from 15.00h to 23.00h. Sónar by night: Friday and Saturday from 20.30h to 07.00h. .
Tickets: You can purchase ticket here.
Robbie Williams finds in art a refuge to free the mind
The Moco Museum Barcelona is preparing to open Confessions Of A Crowded Mind by iconic singer Robbie Williams. With a career marked by musical successes and an internal struggle against the dark side of fame, Williams has found in art a refuge to show his emotions and thoughts. After the success at the Moco Museum in Amsterdam with the first show, Pride and Self-Prejudice, this second part will showcase 17 previously unpublished works that explore themes related to mental health.
Robbie Williams hopes that this new collection will be a tool to teach the public that fears can be overcome by learning from them. Photo: Carli Hermès.
From his beginnings in the group Take That to his successful solo career, Robbie Williams has been facing challenges and experiencing the dark side of success. Just as he expresses those emotions between stanzas and choruses, art allows him to show them visually. The exhibition is presented as a valuable tool that can help love oneself, embrace and learn from the devils that flood the minds to transform them and find balance. Releasing feelings through painting or lyrics is the first step to be able to heal, and the singer confides in being able to inspire and that the public can express their truth.
When? Starting on June 21, 2024.
Where? Carrer Montcada, 25, Barcelona..
Hours: Monday to Thursday from 10.00h to 20.00h. Friday to Sunday from 10.00h to 21.00h..
Tickets: You can purchase tickets here.
The global art meeting on the white island
The Can Art Fair is preparing for its third editionin Ibiza, June 26-30. The venue FECOEVwill host more than 30 galleriesand 100 national and international artists. In addition to the main program, the island will be filled with art with the collector zone and the OFF Program, where local art is highlighted. For example, the Majorcan artists, Alejandro Jovayolas, from LA BIBI, and Bartomeu Sastre, from Galería Fran Reus, will present their works at the Faro de Ses Coves Blanques.
The American gallery Hollis Taggart will be present with Dana James or Osamu Kobayashi.
In addition, this year’s edition will host for the first timegalleries from Canada, Turkey, Portugaland Scotland, expanding its international scope. These include Galleria Continua (Italy), Maschaal (Canada), AKIINOUE (Japan), Madragoa (Portugal), among others. Sergio Sancho, director of the fair, explains the importance of visibilizing the fair at international level and claiming local art to the world. For this reason, this year they have worked to bring together Balearic galleries such as L21 or Lundgren Gallery, with outstanding artists.
When? June 26-30, 2024..
Where? C/ d’Eivissa a Sant Josep, Ibiza, Balearic Islands.
Orning hours: Thursday to Saturday 18.00h to 22.00h. Sunday from 12.00h to 18.00h.
Tickets: You can purchase the ticket here .
Awakening sleeping garments at The Met
After the Met Gala celebration, on May 6, The Met opened its doors to the exhibition Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion. The exhibition is made up of 250 garments and accessories connected to nature, and symbolize how both live and die fleetingly. This new exhibition offers the possibility of entering the world that is presented to us through smells, touch, sight and hearing. With our five senses we discover those designs that were alive years ago but little by little fell asleep.
The display is divided into three sections: earth, air and water, creating a great garden where flowers bloom on top of the hats. During the immersive walk, you can enjoy garments designed by Balenciaga, Madame Pauline, Elsa Schiaparelli or Jonathan Anderson. In addition, some of the garments, damaged by time, are presented laying in display cases, as their fabric is too fragile to dress a mannequin. Of these we find the Butterfly dressesCharles James, a garment designed by the beauty of butterflies, and shown in duplicate. One of them is in perfect condition, while the other sleeps delicately in the display case..
When? From May 10 to September 2, 2024.
Where? 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, USA.
Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday from 10.00h to 17.00h. Friday and Saturday from 10.00h to 21.00h. Wednesday closed.
Tickets: You can purchase ticket here.
The country of the rising sun awakens at Palau Martorell
The Palau Martorell welcomes the Japanese essence and invites us to explore the new exhibition Geisha Samurai: Memories of Japan. More than 200 selected works dress up the Catalan palace, and offer the opportunity to immerse ourselves in the Japanese culture of the 19th century. The exhibition is divided into eight sections, and each of them offers elements rooted in the tradition of the island. Among the works on display is the classic The Great Wave of Kanagawa, a piece that, despite the passage of time, continues to reflect the power of nature.
The exhibition features samples of classical Japanese theater where they used masks for acting, photographs or props for costumes.
The figure of the Japanese woman can be seen through the kimonos, the wooden dolls to celebrate the day of the girl, called kokeshi, or the symbolism of the geishas. The artistic representation of the war is also present through the samurai and their weapons, as well as the decorative art with the kakemono. This traditional decoration is a painting or calligraphy drawn on paper or silk that used to be hung in the rooms where the tea ceremony was celebrated.
When? May 10 to Sept. 8, 2024.
Where? C/ Ample, 11, Barcelona, Spain.
Hours: Monday to Sunday from 10.00 am to 8.00 pm.
Tickets: You can purchase the ticket here.
Discovering the artistic journey of Yoshito Nara
Humans tend not to appreciate what we have until we lose it, and Japanese artist, Yoshito Nara, acknowledges that he had to leave his hometownto realize this. His departure to Europein the 1980s made him learnthat what he needed was within his reach, but he needed some time to figure it out. This June, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbaoopens the first retrospective of the artist in Spain. The exhibition offers the artistic careerof Nara from 1984 to now, through paintings, sculptures andinstallations.
The character submerged in a puddle, used by the artist as a bridge between communities.
His thoughts and emotions, his taste for folk music or his memories as a child are reflected in the charactersand figures he has been creating. Throughout the tour we findchildren with giant heads and very vivid eyes, forests, or the house that reflects the home. His travels outside Japan made him learn to reconstruct himself as an artist, and connect with the land and nature he was born into. Especially in 2011, when the Japanese country suffered the devastating earthquake, accompanied by the tsunami, and finally the nuclear accident in Fukushima. At that point he returned to his roots, and his empathy and humanity was reflected in works such as From the Bomb Shelter (2017).
When? June 28-November 3, 2024.
Where? Abandoibarra Etorb., 2, Bilbao, Spain.
Hours: Tuesday to Sunday from 10.00h to 20.00h.
Tickets: You can purchase the ticket here.
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