With great curiosity, I walked into the room that holds the collection of Furies that the Museo del Prado is exhibiting until the 4th of May. Just as the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles, on entering the…
Retrospective of Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) at the Centre Pompidou. The exhibition traces a chronological survey of the work of one of the legends of contemporary photography. His oeuvre develops stylistically through several clearly identifiable phases. His beginnings are…
Regarded as one of the precursors of Pop Art, the American artist Alex Katz (Brooklyn, 1927) opened last night, together with his wife Ada, the exhibition ‘Red Hat’ at the Javier López Gallery in Madrid. A painter of series,…
© 2014 Calder Foundation, New York/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York The Gagosian Gallery presents a broad collection of watercolours by the artist Alexander Calder (Pennsylvania 1898, New York 1976) in New York. He studied mechanical engineering and…
Beyond the carriage entrance of a side street off Madrid’s Gran Via, the Espacio Valverde Gallery hangs over a light-filled courtyard, hosting, in this month of September 2014, the work of Alejandro Botubol (Cadiz, 1979) and his…
Good Luck! The new exhibition by Ruth Gomez (Valladolid, 1976) that is brightening the walls of Madrid’s New Gallery these days, and that seduces us with its cheerful, positive outlook, conceals, beneath that title framed by exclamation marks,…
This was my first encounter with this artist’s work. The large-format pieces by Zhang Eli (most of them around 2x3m approx.) greet the visitor with force. I wanted to know more about this artist from Jilin, China, born in 1965…
“Density” is the name of the striking new exhibition by the Chinese artist Liu Wei (Beijing, 1972 ) at the White Cube gallery in London. Until now, I had followed his work at art fairs, exhibitions and museums, where…
After her striking work in “The Afronauts”, Cristina Middel (Alicante, 1975) surprises us at La New Gallery with her latest project PARTY, a combination of manipulated texts from the Little Red Book: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tsetung and the…
Valeriano Cortazar. Palacio de Cibeles On the past 12th of June, the exhibition of the artist Valeriano Cortazar was inaugurated at the Palacio de Cibeles in Madrid. By lending a space in its offices, the City Council…