It is 250 years since the birth of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), one of the great German painters of Romanticism. On the occasion of his anniversary, Germany is preparing various tributes, the most important being that of the Alte Nationalgalerie Museum in Berlin, which will open on 19 April: "Caspar David Friedrich. Infinite Landscapes". It will be an important exhibition featuring 60 paintings and 50 drawings by the paradigmatic painter of German Romanticism, including his most iconic works. It was in Germany that European Romanticism had its origin through its literature, its painting and its music, exalting feeling above the preponderance of Enlightenment reason.
Elena Cué
The reappearance of the work of the American artist James Turrell (Pasadena, LA, 1943) in Paris has caused great expectation. The Gagosian Gallery in Le Bourget, near the Air Museum, has presented the exhibition "James Turrell: At One", which can be visited until summer 2025. This exhibition consists of more than thirty works including luminous murals, projections, photographs, holograms, models and plans of his Roden Crater in Arizona.
Elena Cué
Florence hosts until 25 January the extraordinary exhibition "Fra Angelico", devoted to one of the great masters of the Early Renaissance. Spread between the Palazzo Strozzi and the Museum of San Marco, the show brings together more than 140 works and allows one to enter into the spiritual, aesthetic and theological dimension of a painter who knew how to harmonize monastic devotion with the modern language of the Renaissance. In a journey of great beauty and recollection, Fra Angelico reveals himself as a creator of light, serenity and transcendence, whose painting still moves us by its purity and depth.
Elena Cué
"Man Ray: Forms of Light", the new exhibition at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, reveals the essential figure of the artist who redefined photography and the avant-garde of the 20th century. Through rayographs, solarizations and objects charged with Dada wit and surrealist spirit, the show illuminates Man Ray's experimental power and his still-current legacy, in dialogue with the parallel exhibition at the Met in New York. His life, marked by innovation, aesthetic rebelliousness and the influence of women such as Kiki de Montparnasse and Lee Miller, reveals a creator who turned light into language and imagination into form.
Elena Cué
The MAPFRE Foundation devotes, in the Sala Recoletos, a notable retrospective to Anders Zorn, one of the great painters of the belle epoque. A master of watercolor, oil and engraving, the Swedish artist turned light and water into the protagonists of a body of work that celebrates femininity, nature and modern elegance. An exhibition that allows us to rediscover a cosmopolitan creator, deeply tied to his homeland.
Elena Cué
The Victoria & Albert Museum in London devotes a major retrospective to Elsa Schiaparelli (Rome, 1890 - Paris, 1973), the Italian aristocrat who turned fashion into art. Nourished by surrealism and by her collaborations with Dali, Cocteau and Man Ray, she created a language of her own that slapped the Paris of the 1930s and forever transformed the relationship between dress and avant-garde.
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The National Portrait Gallery in London will open on 20 October "Francis Bacon: Human Presence", it will be the largest exhibition of portraits by the Irish artist carried out by the museum. Among the more than 55 paintings from the 1950s onward that will be exhibited, we will be able to see some as significant as several of his self-portraits, or the paintings of Isabel Rawsthorne, Henrietta Moraes and Lucien Freud, and of his lovers Peter Lacy, George Dyer and John Edwards.
Elena Cué
To have true knowledge of things, that is, to be able to explain Nature and human life, we must turn to their origin, what the ancient Greeks called arche, and seek the causes and reasons of those processes. And what better option than the one offered by the Archaeological Museum of Madrid, to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the museum's reopening, than to begin with that primordial time
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The Musee d'Orsay celebrates its 40th anniversary with a major show devoted to Renoir's most luminous years, those from 1865 to 1885. Fifty paintings bring together the universe of pleasure, love and human conviviality that the painter built before his Impressionist crisis, a declaration in favor of a happy modernity.
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"Anselm Kiefer. Fallen Angels" has just opened in Florence, an important exhibition by the German artist Anselm Kiefer (1945). His monumental work is confronted with the Renaissance spirit of the Palazzo Strozzi. This palace of Florentine pietraforte stone, inspired by Greco-Roman architecture, will house, until 21 July, a show curated by the historian and art critic Arturo Galansino, composed of paintings, sculptures, installations and photographs.
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The work in question is one of Claudel's emblematic pieces. It depicts three figures: a kneeling young woman, "the imploring one", who stretches out her arms in a desperate gesture toward a man of virile build dragged like a wave by an elderly woman with the power to pull him away from her. This composition, like any work of art, lends itself to multiple interpretations, just as plural are the gazes of the one who observes.
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Berthe Morisot, a key figure of Impressionism, brought an intimate and feminine gaze to the modern art of the 19th century. With a unique sensibility for light and color, she portrayed everyday scenes with an unprecedented freshness, raising the domestic and the natural to a poetic category. Her daughter Julia, her husband Eugene Manet and the gardens of Bougival were muses of a body of work in which the instant and emotion merge with elegance and modernity.
Elena Cué
The exhibition "Gauguin. The Noa Noa Diary and Other Adventures", which has opened in Rome, invites us to follow the intimate and artistic journey of the master of Symbolism. Inspired by his writings from Tahiti, the show reveals a Gauguin in search of the primitive and the authentic, far from a decadent Europe. With more than 160 works, including pieces by Van Gogh and Emile Bernard, the exhibition shows how Gauguin transformed painting into a spiritual and symbolic language that opened the way to the modern art of the 20th century.
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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 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.
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