This summer, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting Pop Art Myths, the first exhibition on this subject in Madrid since Pop Art at the Museo Reina Sofía in 1992. More than twenty years later, the exhibition’s curator Paloma Alarcó, Head of Modern Painting at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, will offer a reassessment of this artistic trend from […]
Organised to mark the 100th anniversary of the artist’s death, this exhibition is an extensive retrospective of the career of Darío de Regoyos (1857-1913), the leading Spanish representative of Impressionism. More than 100 works will reveal the artist’s different modes of artistic expression, thematic concerns and aesthetic evolution over the course of his career. Their […]
The Museo Thyssen is presenting the first retrospective on Cézanne to be held in Spain in thirty years, following the one at the MEAC in 1984. The exhibition includes 58 works:
49 oils and 9 watercolours lent by museums and private collections around the world (including the USA, Australia and Japan), many not previously seen in Spain. They will be shown alongside nine works by artists such as Pissarro, Gauguin, Bernard, Derain, Braque, Dufy and Lhote.
Surrealism and the Dream
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
8 October 2013 – 12 January 2014
Opening on 8 October, the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the first monographic exhibition on Surrealism and the dream. Including a total of 163 works by the great Surrealist masters –André Breton, Salvador Dalí, Paul Delvaux, Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, René Magritte, Max Ernst, André Masson, Jean Arp and Man Ray– the exhibition will offer a thematic presentation of the Surrealists’ visual interpretation of the world of dreams.
Pissarro
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
4 June – 15 September 2013
The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is presenting the first monographic exhibition in Spain on the Impressionist painter Camille Pissarro (1830-1903). The exhibition brings together 80 works loaned from numerous museums and collections world-wide and focuses on the Landscape, the prevailing genre within Pissarro’s oeuvre, following a chronological journey through the different places in which the artist lived and worked.
Dalí. All of the poetic suggestions and all of the plastic possibilities
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
April 27 – September 2, 2013
The Museo Reina Sofía presents a major exhibition dedicated to Salvador Dalí, one of the most comprehensive shows yet held on the artist from Ampurdán.
Hyperrealism 1967-2012
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
22 March – 9 June 2013
In the late 1960s a group of artists emerged in the United States who painted scenes and objects from daily life with a high degree of realism, using photography as the basis for their works and achieving international recognition at Documenta in Kassel in 1972. For the first time, the exhibition now presented at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza offers a survey of Hyperrealism that starts with the great US masters of the first generation such as Richard Estes, John Baeder, Tom Blackwell, Don Eddy, Ralph Goings and Chuck Close, continues in Europe with their influence on subsequent generations, and concludes in the present day.
Mitsuo Miura. Imagined Memories
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
14th March – 2nd September 2013
The intervention by Mitsuo Miura (Iwate, Japan, 1946) at the Palacio de Cristal is based on a pictorial installation oriented ultimately toward architecture and landscaping. By means of essential forms distributed around the space, with somewhat faded colors representative of a certain diffuseness, the artist proposes the creation of constructive forms that are merely suggested, and which relate to essential schematizations of experiences and images stored in his memory.
Impressionism and open-air Painting. From Corot to Van Gogh
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
5 February – 12 May 2013
The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza presents from 5 February the exhibition Impressionism and open-air Painting.
Concrete Invention. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
22 January – 16 September 2013
This will be the first exhibition organised in Europe on the important Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) and the most comprehensive to date as well.
Robert Adams
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
15 January – 20 May 2013
This is the first great retrospective in Europe on North American photographer Robert Adams (Orange, New Jersey, 1937), widely regarded as one of the most significant and influential chroniclers of the American West.
Cristina Iglesias: Metonymy
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
5 February – 13 May 2013
Museo Reina Sofía presents the largest retrospective to date, in Spain and abroad, on Cristina Iglesias (San Sebastian, 1956). Although an exhibition on her work was held at Palacio de Velázquez in 1998, this anthology includes more than fifty works and examines the broad production of the artist, from her beginnings in the mid-eighties to present days.