Archive for October, 2011

Andreas Fogarasi in Madrid

Andreas Fogarasi us one of Austria’s most famous contemporary artists and, on this occasion, he arrives at the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid to stage a presentation which will try and reflect on abstract art from the Cold War. The exhibition is called ‘The city of colour/Vasarely Go Home’, which can be visited until the [...]

Friday, October 28th, 2011

José Manuel Ballester in Madrid

José Manuel Ballester, who was born in Madrid in 1960 and won the National Prize for Photography in2010, will present the exhibition “The abstraction of reality” at the Alcalá 31 Gallery of Madrid. This is a presentation where you can enjoy over 50 works of his latest creations. The last 5 years of his works [...]

Thursday, October 27th, 2011

Jimson weed, a psychoactive plant.

This past summer again came with stories of people killed from ingesting medically uncontrolled substances with high alkaloid potential. It is not only the plants that can kill you, but the poison is in its dose, one has to know what it takes, with that mixture and where you take it. Unfortunately in August, two [...]

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Gregor Schneider in Madrid

From the 28th of October, the Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo of Madrid exhibits, for the first time in Spain, the work of the German conceptual artist Gregor Schneider. With this exhibition, the CA2M looks to raise awareness of the work of one of the most interesting contemporary artists and gather Spanish artists to [...]

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The Modern Art Center in Madrid

It has been eight years since  the beloved Spanish-Argentina Gallery of Modern Art (http://www.centrodeartemoderno.net/) opened in Madrid, initially in the Barrio de las Letras -colloquially known as Las Huertas (perhaps a less characteristic trait of the Spanish capital where places seem to always have at least two names: The official one, which very often does [...]

Monday, October 24th, 2011

Locus Solus. Impressions of Raymond Roussel

How much can a poet influence art through his poetic illusory worlds? This is what the exhibition Locus Solus. Impressions of Raymond Roussel, tries to inquire from the 25th of October at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. The Museum aims to review the work of the poet, novelist and playwright of the twentieth century, [...]

Friday, October 21st, 2011

The roof of the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid

In the enigmatic section titled ‘Minor category’ of his unclassifiable book ‘The computation of eight’, the Samoan writer Albert Hanover points out two of the three vertices of what he considers Madrid’s magical triangle par excellence (the third remains open to speculation and suspicion, because Hanover refrains himself from mentioning it, despite it being an [...]

Thursday, October 20th, 2011

René Daniels at Palacio Velazquez in Madrid

From the 20th of October, the Reina Sofía Museum presents the world of the Dutch painter René Daniëls. The museum tries to reflect the interesting way of expressing art that Daniëls applied in his ironic and imaginative work, who tried to occupy the land of nobody among literature, visual arts and life, as the painter [...]

Wednesday, October 19th, 2011

Eugène Delacroix in Madrid

Eugène Delacroix was born in France and was one of the most important French painters of the 19th century who, according to various historians, chose Dante to make various works of his. During the first third of the 19th century, a series of romantic artists who had great importance appeared. Delacroix was the best from this time. [...]

Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Estampa Multiple Art in Madrid 2011

The 19th edition of the international contemporary art fair in Madrid, Estampa Multiple Art, will take place from the 20th to 23rd of October at IFEMA, the Spanish capital’s fair.  Since 1993, the most innovative art forms are found in one place, with the purpose of promoting the Spanish art market, whose present and future [...]

Monday, October 17th, 2011