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Salvador Dali: Surrealism Is Me

Salvador Dali: Surrealism Is Me

Editorial Taschen has published a monumental collector's edition devoted to Salvador Dali, which in two volumes reveals previously unseen material on his life and work with the collaboration of the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation. This exhaustive overview shows the genius from Figueras in all his complexity: creator of the paranoiac-critical method, an egomaniacal provocateur and a revolutionary of 20th-century art. Among religious fantasies, erotic obsessions and the mythical figure of Gala, Dali embodied surrealism as a personal and vital attitude beyond any doctrine.

Elena Cué
The Accident

The Accident

      I saw your eyes fixing on my answer. “YES”. It came out of a dark and unsuspected part inside me. I remembered exactly that sensation and the need to breathe pure air. To sweat and feel the…

Marina Valcárcel
Raimundo de Madrazo

Raimundo de Madrazo

The exceptional exhibition "Raimundo de Madrazo", organized by the Fundacion MAPFRE and the Meadows Museum, brings together more than a hundred works in the largest retrospective devoted to date to the refined Madrid painter. the technical virtuosity and the sophisticated world that Madrazo immortalized, revealing the legacy of an essential artistic dynasty and recovering for our time the exquisite sensibility of one of the great names of 19th-century Spanish painting.

Elena Cué
Jean-Michel Basquiat. Now’s the Time

Jean-Michel Basquiat. Now’s the Time

 Author: Angeles Blanco. Graduate in philosophy and history   Outspoken, provocative, multifaceted, erudite, revolutionary, reflective yet impulsive, contemporary… countless adjectives can define the overwhelming personality of Jean-Michel Basquiat who, despite his fleeting career, has left an indelible mark on the art…

Ángeles Blanco
George Berkeley. Matter Is an Illusion

George Berkeley. Matter Is an Illusion

The philosophy of George Berkeley can be summed up in a few words: matter does not exist. A radical and provocative claim that he tried to argue in his most important book: “Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous”, written when he was 28. Hylas is a Cartesian thinker who defends the existence of matter, while Philonous is Berkeley himself, who inspired the well-known principle: esse est percipi. This could be translated as: the world only exists if it is perceived.

Pedro García Cuartango
Ephemeral Beauty in the Ring and Heartbeats on the Canvas

Ephemeral Beauty in the Ring and Heartbeats on the Canvas

The matador Jose Tomas and the artist Luis Gordillo have been brought together by their tribute to the bullfighter Victor Barrio. A bull, "Lorenzo", took the life of the young torero from Segovia. "Navegante" gored Jose Tomas gravely in Aguascalientes. The master of Galapagar knows what it is to die in the ring; he did it, but he came back after dwelling in that place. His heart never stopped beating even as life gushed out of him.

Elena Cué
David Hockney, Life in Full Color

David Hockney, Life in Full Color

The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris hosts the largest retrospective devoted to David Hockney, one of the most innovative and life-affirming artists of our time. With more than 400 works, the exhibition celebrates his luminous gaze and his inexhaustible curiosity about color, technology and life. Hockney, at almost 88, continues to explore art with freedom, humor and sensitivity, proving that spring - like art - cannot be cancelled.

Elena Cué
Self-Portraits: Inigo Manterola

Self-Portraits: Inigo Manterola

       I am Inigo Manterola and I was born in a village on the Gipuzkoa coast called Orio, almost 42 years ago. With an early vocation, I began to draw as a child and at the age of…

Íñigo Manterola
Self-Portraits: Ricardo Sanz

Self-Portraits: Ricardo Sanz

From my Madrid studio I set aside my brushes for a moment to give a different kind of brushstrokes, some brushstrokes about my path in the world of Art. I was born in San Sebastian in the late fifties into a family connected with the world of Painting, through my grandfather, who had an Art Gallery and a close relationship with the artists of his time: Sorolla, Zuloaga, Vazquez Diaz, etc. When I reached adolescence I went to the studio of the painter Jose Camps, who was the teacher of great painters and who trained me with a strong foundation  in drawing and introduced me to the great world of color. At the same time I graduated in History from the University of Deusto.

Ricardo Sanz
“Angkor: Naturaleza y Misticismo. Borja de Madariaga.

“Angkor: Naturaleza y Misticismo. Borja de Madariaga.

   After his photographic exhibitions on Rome, Venice… Borja de Madariaga (Madrid, 1966) exhibits at the Espacio 51 gallery in Madrid “Angkor: Naturaleza y Misticismo”. There are almost twenty photographs of various sizes, from 200×150 cm to 50×50 cm, with…

Marina Valcárcel