It’s time to visit Museums in Valencia, Bilbao, and Barcelona
In Barcelona
MACBA shows one of the most complete exhibitions of Pablo Palazuelo (Madrid, 1915), one of the key figures of Spanish art of the second half of the 20th century. It contains about 350 pieces –some of which have never been shown to the public before– and takes us on a journey through all the periods of his career as an artist, with special emphasis on the works done in the fifties and sixties.
Since his work has a great deal to do with performance, the exhibition highlights his drawings and the pieces which show his work process most clearly. It also establishes links between his paintings, his sculptures and his architectural projects. For Palazuelo, art is first and foremost a search, an investigation into new forms and spaces, and that is reflected in this show, which shuns any ‘mystical’ and ‘pseudo-religious’ interpretation of his work.
Palazuelo has still not been given the international recognition his work deserves. There are various reasons for this neglect. First, the still precarious situation of contemporary Spanish historiography, an excessively linear notion of abstraction that begins with Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso, continues with constructivism and finally arrives at minimalism. This orthodox conception of modern art has meant that other kinds of practices and aesthetics, which had to do with the symbolic, have been partly ignored. Palazuelo is one of the artists in that context. This retrospective exhibition at MACBA will highlight the most neglected aspects of his work.
In Bilbao
Guggenheim Bilbao goes African with the exhibition of he Contemporary Afrian Art Collection, an extensive collection of contemporary African art amased by the Swiss photographer and businessman Jean Pigozzi since 1989. 100% Africa is a varied selection of works by contemporary African artists that confirms the diversity and vitality of expression in black Africa today.
Featuring artists living and working in sub-Saharan Africa, 100% Africa seeks to give support and exposure to creative artists fully committed to the continent’s future. The exhibition invites visitors to take a journey through more than 15 countries, providing an unusual, largely unexplored vision of art in Africa.
In Valencia
The Institut Valencià d’Art Modern holds an anthological exhibition of contemporary photography comprising 66 works between photographs, assemblages, videos, silk screen prints, photocopies and digital processes by the best-known and most outstanding artists in Brazil, including, among others, Alberto Bitar, Aloísio Magalhães, Bené Fonteles, Edouard Fraipont, Farnese de Andrade, Mário N. Ishikawa, Rubens Mano and Waltercio Caldas.
The works included in the exhibition belong to the collection of the Museo de Arte Moderna Sao Paulo, with which the IVAM has an agreement to exchange works periodically.
The exhibition provides the public with means to reflect on the production of some of the major Brazilian artists of the last few decades, and, above all, with a way they have faced up to crucial issues at the present time, both in the field of art and those arising from the social situation in Brazil and the loss or surmounting of traditional, collective or individual parameters of identity.
Useful Information
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
Palazuelo. Working Process
From 12/15/2006 To 02/18/2007
Curators: Manuel J. Borja-Villel and Teresa Grandas
Organized by and coproduced with Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Sq. dels Àngels, 1
08001 Barcelona
exposicions@macba.es
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
100% Africa
From 10/12/2006 To 02/2007
Museum information desk: (+34) 94 435 90 80,
Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Information: informacion@guggenheim-bilbao.es
IVAM
Colección Fotografía MAMSP
From 09/21/2006 to 02/25/2007
Centro Julio González - Galería 6 (Sala de la Muralla)
Guillem de Castro, 118 - 46003 VALENCIA
Tel. 96 386 30 00 Fax 96 392 10 94 E-mail: ivam@ivam.es
