Heroines
Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza
8 March to 5 June 2011
This March, the Museo Thyssen‐Bornemisza and Fundación Caja Madrid are presenting Heroines, a comprehensive survey of the depiction of women as the protagonists of key roles and as manifestations of the gender identity crisis in western art. The exhibition focuses on strong women: active, independent, defiant, inspired, creative, dominating and triumphant.
World Art Vision
Real Círculo Artístico de Barcelona
19 May – 5 June 5 2011
International artists are currently being selected to exhibit at the second edition of World Art Vision. The exhibition is being held from May 19th to June 5th 2011 at Real Círculo Artístico de Barcelona (Royal Artistic Circle), situated in the Barrio Gotico area of Barcelona, Spain.
For 18 days, the artists will have the unique opportunity of exhibiting paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography, prints, installation art, video and digital art and the exhibition will be highlighted by collateral events: presentations, concerts and lectures.
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
15 February – 22 May 2011
From mid-February onwards the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid will be presenting the first retrospective exhibition in Spain to be devoted to the French painter and sculptor Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). The exhibition will include nearly 60 works that encompass all the different facets of Gérôme’s career, including some of his most celebrated and important creations, both oil paintings and sculptures.
Ghirlandaio and the Renaissance in Florence
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
23 June – 10 October 2010
This summer the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza will be presenting the temporary exhibition Ghirlandaio and the Renaissance in Florence. Comprising a survey of quattrocento Florentine art, its starting point is one of the great icons in the Museum’s permanent collection: Portrait of Giovanna degli Albizzi Tornabuoni, painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio between 1489 and 1490.
The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) presents the largest exhibition in Spain of the Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles
From 11 February to 26 April 2009
On the floor, a sea of broken glass, which crackles and crunches underfoot time and time again. Before your eyes, a maze in which there are no walls, only prison bars, fences, curtains, aquariums with translucent fish swimming around, their bones easily visible to the naked eye, mosquito nets, metal stakes and chicken wire… In the middle, a giant ball of crumpled cellophane paper.
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