From Miró to Barceló - a century of Spanish art

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Cubism, surrealism, figuration, abstract art, painting, sculptures, cinema, video… There is no period or style of the 20th or 21st century that isn’t covered by Spanish artists. Pablo Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel were pioneers of seeing and creating things in a new way and their legacy lives on. This journey through a century of Spanish art shows that this generation of contemporary artists has kept the avant-garde spirit alive with an extraordinary energy. Their predecessors lived through phenomena of history: Parisian exile, war and ostracism created a huge number of upsetting, radical and even sacilegious paintings. Their successors, among them Miguel Barceló, Cristina Iglesias and La Ribot, who grew up in freedom continue to surprise us with new forms of painting, sculpturing and using space, reenterpreting materials, rituals and myths of Spanish art.

WHEN?

Until November 1st 2021
Wednesday to Monday 09:30AM to 8PM

ENTRANCE FEES

Combined exhibition Normal 9,00 € Reduced 5,50 €
Permanent exhibition 7,00 € 4,00 €
Temporary exhibition 4,00 € 2,50 €

WHERE?

 

Toulouse-Lautrec and the circus

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In 1899, during a short period of convalescence in a sanatorium in Neuilly, on the outskirts of Paris, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864−1901), the great portraitist of fin-de-siècle Parisian bohemia, produced a series of 39 drawings on one of his favourite themes: circus performances like those of the city’s Cirque Fernando, the subjects of some of his finest paintings of the previous years. He returned to them when struck by illness as an exercise in recollecting his experiences in Montmartre.

Tightrope walkers, animal tamers, equestriennes, trapeze artists, clowns, gymnasts and horses in complex positions are the focus of his attention in these images, which are steeped in the artist’s personality and exemplify his particular way of rendering popular entertainments and, especially, the energetic, daring performers. Executed in coloured pencils, the drawings make up a sort of animated sequence of circus acts of which we become spectators – up in the stands, down by the ring or behind the scenes – watching the action unfold before our eyes.

Some of Lautrec’s original drawings were published in April 1902 in Le Figaro Illustré. The complete set, kept by his friend Maurice Joyant, was reproduced using a photomechanical process (gum bichromate or photo-aquatint) in two posthumous editions entitled Au cirque. The first, comprised of 22 plates, was made in 1905 by Joyant together with Adolphe Goupil, an art dealer who headed a successful printmaking multinational. The second, also produced at Joyant’s request and featuring 17 prints, was published in 1931 by the Parisian printing house Librairie de France.

The two series of plates and other circus illustrations by Lautrec on view in this exhibition, which were published in the press of the period and in other portfolios, come from the collection of Jean Pierre Gimbergues. They not only illustrate Toulouse-Lautrec’s most personal production but also provide an extraordinary foretaste of a theme that fascinated avant-garde artists.¿CUÁNDO?

WHEN?

Until June 7th 2020
De martes a domingo de 10 a 20h

TICKET PRICES

Full-access ticket
General: 10 €
Reduced: 6 €
Group: 8 €

WHERE?

Sala Noble
Museo CarmenThyssen Málaga

 

Carnival Estepona

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The 2020 Estepona Carnival will be held on Saturday, February 22, from 12 noon to 6 pm, in the El Calvario Park. In case of rain, the activities will move to the neighbouring Padre Manuel Cultural Centre.

Performances: from 3 pm to 5.30 pm.

  • Comparsa from La Línea: “El Batallón del Mar”. Directed by, Daniel Morales Lebrón; lyrics and music, Fco. Javier Morales Ortega.

  • Estepona Chirigota: “Puede Pagar Contra Reembolso Con La Tarjeta De Crédito Y Con La Tarjeta De El Corte Inglés”. Directed by Daniel Fernández Antequera; lyrics, José Miguel Mata; music, José Alberto Ledesma.

  • La Línea Chirigota: “Al Final T’Atrinco”. Directed, lyrics and music by Pepe Torres.

  • Málaga Comparsa: “Ciudad Del Paraíso”. Direction, Rubén Tejada; lyrics, Miguel Gutiérrez; music, Curro Ruiz.

5.30pm: ‘Sardine Funeral’. Once the performances are finished, the participants will leave Calvario Park to Calle Terraza, heading for La Rada beach, at the post office, where the “Pastora” Sardine will be set on fire. The cortege, which is recommended to enter the spirit of ‘mourning’, will be joined by “Los Primos De La Familia Pérez”.

Everyone is encouraged to dress up, either in a group or individually, giving the Carnival more atmosphere and colour.

When?

Saturday, february 22nd, from 12 noon to 6pm


Where?

Parque El Calvario

 

CAC Málaga Exhibition - ROBERT MOTHERWELL’S COLLAGES

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CAC MÁLAGA PRESENTS, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN SPAIN,ROBERT MOTHERWELL’S COLLAGES

The Centro de Arte Contemporáneo of Málaga is proud to present the exhibition Collages, featuring the work of Robert Motherwell. Curated by the CAC Málaga curatorial team, the show comprises 26 works made between 1960 and 1989. The exhibition consists entirely of works on paper that explore the evolution of collage during Motherwell’s lifetime, illustrating his diverse approaches to the use of this technique.
His work is characterised by his intuitive tearing methods, similar to the brushstrokes of an Abstract Expressionist. Motherwell’s collages are marked by the coexistence of different media and techniques, combining package labels, torn paper, cardboard and even a reused envelope with abstract forms.

Robert Motherwell (Aberdeen, Washington, 1915–Provincetown, Massachusetts, 1991) graduated from Stanford University in 1937 and later enrolled at Harvard University to pursue a post-graduate degree in Philosophy. Motherwell also briefly attended Columbia University in 1940.

His work has been shown individually and collectively at many international institutions, including Galerie Raymond Duncan (Paris), Peggy Guggenheim’s gallery The Art of This Century (New York), the Arts Club of Chicago, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Musée d’Art Moderne (Paris), the Royal Academy of Arts (London), the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC) and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York).

WHEN?

until May 17th, 2020
From 09:00AM - 09:30PM


WHERE?

CAC Málaga
Calle Alemania

 

Noche Andaluza - Tribute to Andalusian Rock

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A time travel to Andalusia late 70s.

NOCHE ANDALUZA is a show produced and directed by the Malaga-born guitarist Juan Delola, in which he pays homage to the great songs of Andalusian rock - always on an emotional journey through time that will take us to the second half of the 70s and early 80.

WHEN?

Saturday February 15th 2020
21:30 – 23:30 CET

WHERE?

Teatro de Las Lagunas
Camino del Albero, 16
29651 Las Lagunas de Mijas

 

The Ice Queen - The Frozen musical tribute

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“The ICE QUEEN” arrives in MARBELLA. You can see the FROZEN MUSICAL tribute on Sunday, 19th of January, at the Auditórium del Palacio de Congresos de Marbella at 5pm.

The renowned National ensemble PEKEKIDS MUNDO MÁGICO brings us one of this year´s great musicals. The tribute tells an original and hilarious story including the sisters Anna and Elsa, Olaf, together with the flower fairy, Golfín, a mayor called Pinocchio and many more. A great show with live dialogue which will create amazing and unforgettable memories for the whole family.

WHEN?

Sunday, 19th of january, 2020 at 5pm

WHERE?

Palacio de Congresos Adolfo Suarez. Calle José Melia, 2, Marbella

 

Temporary exhibition - Luis Seoane - Portraits

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Luis Seoane

Argentinian by birth, Galician in his heart, Seoane divides his life and artistic career across both lands, being significantly influenced by them both equally.

This exhibition brings us the point of view and expression of an artist who has combined literature, illustration, engraving, painting, longing and struggle to develop a unique artistic language.

Particularly influenced by Joaquín Torres García, Léger and Picasso, Seoane creates his own approach to the plastic arts, in which the simplification of forms and figures prevails, along with the use of pure and vigorous colours.

One constant in his work

Alongside this, other features of Seoane’s work are the repetition of themes like the female form, a demand for social justice, rural Galicia, and the sea ever-present in the background as a constant feature. He depicts working, rural women, as well as those from the city (including his own wife), women who are suffering. The sea is a device used to connect the two continents, this being a common sight both in the Galicia that saw him grow up, and in the Argentina that saw him become an artist.

Predominant amongst his depictions of female figures are those that are shown in a passive attitude, at rest or waiting, whether portraits or full-length figures, situated outdoors, by the sea. By this theme in Seoane’s work, we are reminded of the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of those who had to fight in the Spanish civil war or had to emigrate, those who they were waiting to see return, as he hoped that Galicia would see him return.

Throughout his artistic career, the repetition of these feminine motives serves him also as a projection of his personal experimental development, both plastic and linguistic. Even though it continues to be the same theme, the use of schematization and plain colours prevail over the motive.

Through the use of this theme, “SEOANE. Portraits” shows the variety of languages developed by the artist, whose career to schematization takes him occasionally to the border of geometrical abstraction.

WHEN?

Until May 22nd 2021
Tuesday to Saturday
From 10:00h to 15:00h

WHERE?

Museo Ralli
Urbanización Coral Beach, Ctr. Nac. 340, km 176, Marbella, Málaga
(BetweenMarbella y Puerto Banús)

 

Arabian Fantasy. Orientalist Painting in Spain (1860–1900)

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European colonial expansion in northern Africa in the 1800s encouraged many artists, especially French and Spanish, to travel to Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia. Their depictions of these countries’ landscapes, customs and people gave rise to what became known as Orientalist painting. This genre, with a personality of its own in 19th-century art and a concern with light, colour and minute detail, was keenly embraced by great masters such as Eugène Delacroix and Mariano Fortuny.

The popularity travel literature enjoyed at the time, the desire for new subject matter, and an adventurous, restless spirit led many artists to flee from the modern civilisation ushered in by the industrial revolution in search of an ideal, dreamed-of paradise, which they portrayed in their works by inventing an exotic, alluring Orient. The settings of this universe – a mixture of real-life observation and fantasy – were, however, places such as Granada or the Maghreb, which were decidedly un-Oriental but easier to reach.

This exhibition explores the lands, everyday life and faces of the inhabitants of the destinations for bourgeois westerners’ escapist fantasies, which were reflected in Spanish art of the second half of the 19th century by Fortuny, Lameyer, Fabrés, Tapiró and many other artists. Their versions of this theme are accompanied by several examples by their French contemporaries Delacroix, Benjamin-Constant and Dehodencq, which show the link between the foremost practitioners of this genre in both countries.

WHEN?
Tuesday to Sundays from 10am to 8pm
Until March 01, 2020

WHERE?
Museo Carmen Thyssen
Calle Compañía, 10
29008 Málaga

 

ENTRY FEES
General: 10 €
Reduced: 6 €
Group: 8 € per person

BUY TICKETS
https://ventaonline.carmenthyssenmalaga.org/reservarEntradas.aspx?m=INDIVIDUAL&opc=12&lg=es-ES&ca=0

Siempre Así Sinfónico

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Following the undisputed success of the premiere of “Siempre Así Sinfónico” in the Maestranza Theatre in Sevilla (both shows were sold out 3 months in advance) and further two sold out shows in The Real Theatre in Madrid, Siempre Así is coming to the Palacio de Ferias y Exposiciones in Málaga on Friday, 27th of December.
Together with the Symphonic orchestra of Málaga, this will of course be another extraordinary concert where they will present their new album and add another extra special show to their 25 years of playing live concerts.

December 27th 2019

MAC Palacio de Ferias y Congresos, Málaga

 

from €38,50

Teatro Cervantes Málaga - Sleeping Beauty - December 11th, 2019

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Together with other ballets with music by Tchaikovsky, such as Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty is one of the most spectacular and representative of the classical repertoire. Although it tells the story of Princess Aurora and her profound sleep, the main thread is the dramatisation of the eternal conflict between good and bad.

December 11th, 2019

Teatro Cervantes, Málaga

 

A 45€ B 33€ C 25€ D 15€

Teatro Cervantes - Cronologia de las Bestias - September 29th

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A family devastated by their son’s disappearance more than ten years ago has to come to terms with its own “dark past” on learning that he will soon return. An unexpected reencounter in which they have to defend themselves to the ultimate consequences and in which they will discover that lying requires commitment.  
Cronología de las bestias” stemmed from the need to study how much human beings can lie, and lie to themselves. Persons who lie, or lie to themselves, and thus build a world, their world in which they no longer know what the truth is. This is the reason for this black comedy of suspense.”  Lautaro Perotti

 

WHEN?

29th and 30th September 

WHERE?


Teatro Cervantes

Calle Ramos Marín, s/n 

29012 Málaga

 

HOW MUCH?

Tickets: From 10 € to 45€

HOW TO BUY THE TICKETS

To buy the tickets on line, please click here.

 

Marbella Art

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Art Marbella is the first major modern & contemporary art fair in the Costa del Sol, Spain. An event that allows collectors, artists, curators and art lovers to appreciate, enjoy, educate themselves, and acquire art works of exceptional quality.

Marbella, the hot spot of the European Summer, becomes a meeting point for the contemporary art world, and a crossroads, -aesthetically and conceptually-, between Europe and the Middle East.

The curatorial team and host committee are focused on making Art/Marbella a premiere stop in the international cultural calendar. 

WHEN?

Between the 21st and the 25h of July2018. From 6pm to 10.30 pm.

WHERE?

PALACIO DE FERIAS, CONGRESOS Y EXPOSICIONES DE MARBELLA

Avda. José Meliá, 2, 29600 Marbella, Málaga, Spain

 

HOW MUCH?

GENERAL TICKET: 15€
Access to the fair from 6 to 10.00 pm.
Children under 5 years old free

CONCESSIONS TICKET: 8€
Reduced price admittance for students, retirees and groups of 8+ people.
Please present your Student Id or retiree card. Applies to visitors 5-18 years old.

SMALL GROUP: 50€
Admittance for 4 adults.
Access to the fair from 6 pm to 10.00 pm. 

HOW TO BUY TICKETS

If you whish you can buy your tickets in this link: http://marbellafair.com/tickets/

 

 

III Ronda Guitar Festival

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The Ronda International Guitar Festival is an annual week-long festival dedicated to music and the Spanish Guitar. The Spanish guitar is a beautiful instrument born and developed in Spain. It is a world ambassador of Spanish music. We are delighted to celebrate in Ronda, the treasure and legacy that is the Spanish guitar; a great promoter of Spanish culture!

During the festival, there will be two concerts each evening (a total of ten concerts). The performing artists for the 2018 edition have been invited from Spain, Italy, Holland, USA, Croatia, Bulgaria, Germany and France. The festival strives to highlight the versatility and diversity of styles that the guitar embraces: classical, romantic, flamenco, jazz and contemporary. Appealing and attractive to the musical tastes of a wide audience.

There is also a daytime program with an exhibition of artisan guitar makers, mini midday concerts and afternoon conferences with a variety of speakers who offer relevant topics to anyone interested in the guitar.

 

WHEN?

The third edition of the Ronda International Guitar Festival will take place between the 5th and the 9th of June 2018.

WHERE?

All the festival’s activities will be held at the Congress and Exhibition Centre “Santo Domingo” in the heart of the historical old-town of Ronda, Spain. Ronda is a unique city, romantic and fascinating. A place in which nature and culture unite to exhibit the best of both worlds. Ronda and the guitar are a delightful combination!

 

HOW MUCH?

All Festival Pass: 60€

Each day: 15€

HOW TO BUY YOUR TICKETS?

If you whish you can buy your tickets on the following link: https://www.rondaguitarfestival.com/home-english/ticket-sales/

Marbella Desing

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Marbella Design offers a unique opportunity to enter one of the most alluring international markets in Europe. As one of the most exclusive beach resorts on the Costa del Sol, Marbella has a large international community composing business men, wealthy Europeans, Middle Easterns and Russians to name a few. Marbella is one of the favourite destinations of the wealthy and this has resulted in the growing of the luxury housing market.


Even though this is Marbella Design’s first edition, the organising team has an extensive and international track record of organising art fairs all over the world (Miami, London, New York).

MARBELLA DESIGN will gather a selection of international galleries, special projects and a programme of talks that will showcase the latest trends in design.

The fair is organised by the team behind ART MARBELLA, led by Alejandro Zaia, who said “following the resounding success of the fair in its first two editions we are increasing our commitment to turn Marbella and the Costa del Sol into a point of reference for art and design, launching MARBELLA DESIGN”.

WHEN?

This international event will be held from 5 April to 9.

WHERE?

 Palacio de Ferias, Congresos y Exposiciones  of Marbella. 

 

 

HOW MUCH?

GENERAL TICKET: 15€
All day access to the fair. Fair closes from 2 pm to 4 pm. Children under 5 years old FREE.

SMALL GROUP (4 people) : 50€
Admittance for 4 adults. All day access to the fair. Fair closes between 2 pm and 4 pm..

CONCESSION TICKET : 8€
Reduced price admittance for students, retirees and groups of 8+ people. Please present your Student Id or retiree card. Applies to visitors 5-18 years old.

HOW TO BUY TICKETS

If you whish you can buy your tickets in this link: http://www.marbelladesignfair.com/tickets/

Marbella theater - La Comedia de las Mentiras

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Athens. Two brothers, Hipolita and Leonidas, are in love. She from a young man named Tíndaro, he from a young woman called Gymnastics, who, however, is ... a flutist. But neither Tíndaro nor Gymnastics are the couples that the father of Hipólita and Leónidas, a recalcitrant miser, a merchant of wines, cloths and liras, wants for their children. Currently, he is on a business trip. And he has left in charge of the house his sister Cántara, the spinster aunt who has been waiting for Philemon for more than forty years, his youthful love, who one day went out to buy figs and did not come back.

Hipólita wants to escape with Tíndaro, but not before obtaining the dowry that her father refuses to pay. How to get it? Lying.

Leonidas wants to escape with Gymnastics because a certain Degollus, a Macedonian general, has bought it for his use and enjoyment, and intends to take it away. How to get it? Lying.

Calidoro, slave for everything, who has cared for and watched the two brothers grow up, who, as he says "he has only needed to give them his tit", is forced to help them. How? Lying.

Meanwhile, Cántara, after so many years of abstinence, throws herself into the world and falls in love with a young man named Titinio, who is not really called Titinio, because Titinio lies.

And Degollus appears, who also does not turn out to be who he says he is, because, of course, he also lies.

And to all these lies, let's add many pirates, and an old man called Posthumous, and Tiberia, always snobby and rabid, and a mysterious mother, who does not know very well what became of her, and a few squid, and pears, many pears , and the wonderful verses of Sappho, and still more lies. Lies, all of them fabricated so that blood does not reach the river and love triumphs. Oh, and so that Calidoro, poor man, does not end up receiving the sticks as always. Although, it is already known that, being a slave, it will not be easy.
 

WHEN?

26th January 

WHERE?


Teatro Ciudad de Marbella

Plaza Ramón Martínez 3

29603 Marbella, Málaga

 

HOW MUCH?

Tickets: 20 EUROS

HOW TO BUY THE TICKETS

To buy the tickets on line, please click here.

 

El Barrio, Las Costuras del Alma - Concerts

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EL BARRIO, returns to the stage to present his new album, Las Costuras el Alma, his twelfth studio album. On this occasion EL BARRIO gotten into the skin of an old tailor of hearts to tell us new stories through their songs.

Being the national and international artist who has most times filled the WiZink Center in Madrid (a total of 17), with over 400,000 tickets sold on his Hijo de Levante tour in 2015, and having celebrated his two decades in music with 16 unforgettable concerts with his Tour 20 in 2016, in 2018 EL BARRIO embarks on a new tour with a unique production, which promises to become once again one of the best live shows of the year.

 

CONCERT DATES

26/01 Granada - Palacio Municipal de los Deportes

27/01 Málaga - Palacio de Deportes Martín Carpena

28/01 Málaga - Palacio de Deportes Martín Carpena

02/02 Jerez de la Frontera - Pabellón Municipal del Deportes

03/02 Jerez de la Frontera - Pabellón Municipal del Deportes

02/03 Valladolid -  Polideportivo Pisuerga

12/05 Santander - Palacio de Deportes Santander

19/05 Alicante - Plaza de Toros de Alicante

22/06 Cordoba - Plaza de Toros Los Califas

 

HOW TO BUY TICKETS

  • INTERNET

https://www.ticketmaster.es/artist/el-barrio-tickets/97163?language=en-us

  • CORTE INGLES

35 Theater Festival - Malaga

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As is tradition, the year opens with the Festival de Teatro de Málaga, which, in this year that enters 2018, is its 35th edition. An edition that focuses on the Malaga scene, since 40% of the works presented are local, as well like 7 of the 8 premieres that are given in the festival.

The 35th Malaga Theater Festival 2018 brings a total of 74 performances and 42 montages between January 7 and February 11, 2018.

The Malaga Theater Festival brings interpreters such as Rocío Molina, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Juan Echanove and Pepón Nieto to the capital, and companies such as La Fura dels Baus, Lavievel, Yllana and the National Drama Center, among others.

WHEN?

From January 7, 2017 to February 11, 2018

WHERE?

Teatro Cervantes

Calle Ramos Marín, S/N, 29012 Málaga

 

Teatro Echegaray

Calle Echegaray, 6, 29015 Málaga

 

 

PROGRAMME

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

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HOW MUCH

The price of the entrance to the theater varies depending on the show.

HOW TO BUY THE TICKETS

  • INTERNET

https://www.unientradas.es/janto/main.php?Nivel=Recinto&idRecinto=FC-01

  • TELEPHONE

902 360 295 — 952 076 262
From Monday to Sunday, from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.

  • TEATRO ECHEGARAY

At the box office, from Monday to Friday (working), from 15.00 to 21.30 h.
Saturdays (working days), from 4 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. or until the beginning of the show.
Sundays and holidays (if there is a function), from one hour before the start of the show.

  • TEATRO CERVANTES

At the box office, from Monday to Friday (working days), from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and from 6:00 pm to 9:30 pm.
Saturdays (working days), from 4 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. or until the beginning of the show.
Sundays and holidays (if there is a function), from one hour before the start of the show.

 

 

Surrealism Picasso Museum - Malaga

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We are Completely Free. Women Artists and Surrealism

We are Copletely Free. Women Artists and Surrealism presents the work of a group of women artists who, from the 1920s onwards, became involved to a greater or lesser degree in Surrealism, a movement historically associated with men. Museo Picasso Málaga has brought together for the occasion works by eighteen spirited and rebellious female artists who were, in several cases, overshadowed by their male partners. The exhibition aims to give back the focus they deserve to a group of women artists whose work stood out on the Surrealist landscape and some of whom have perhaps had to wait too long to gain major international recognition: Eileen Agar, Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Germaine Dulac, Leonor Fini, Valentine Hugo, Frida Kahlo, Dora Maar, Maruja Mallo, Lee Miller, Nadja, Meret Oppenheim, Kay Sage, Ángeles Santos, Dorothea Tanning Toyen, Remedios Varo and Unica Zürn.

The exhibition curator, José Jiménez, professor of aesthetics and art theory at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, tells us that the choice of artists “is not a separatist option, but rather a recovery task” and also that “it is not a closed list; it is open to new considerations and inclusions. The selection is aimed at giving consistency to the construction of the exhibition narrative, with the focus on the artistic quality of the works and on the fact that these women exercised active independence as creative, thinking beings, in a quest for complete freedom”. Their individuality and personality is conveyed in the more than 124 works brought together for the show, which include paintings, drawings, sculptures, collages, photographs and films.

WHEN?

From October 10, 2017 to January 28, 2018

Every day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

WHERE?

MUSEO PICASSO MALAGA

Palacio de Buenavista C/ San Agustín, 8
29015 Málaga, España

 

Juna Gris Thysen Museum - Malaga

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Juan Gris is hailed as one of the foremost figures of the Cubist movement. His importance lay both in his works, chiefly portraits and still-life scenes, and in his theoretical contribution. He studied at the Escuela de Artes y Oficios in Madrid and at the studio of the painter José Moreno Carbonero, and also contributed to various periodicals such as Blanco y Negro and Madrid Cómico. In 1906 he went to live in France, where he was to spend the rest of his life, and took up residence in the Bateau-Lavoir in Paris. There he met Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and the writers Guillaume Apollinaire, André Salmon and Max Jacob. During this period he earned his living doing drawings for magazines such as L’Assiette au Beurre and Le Cri de Paris and decided to adopt the pseudonym Juan Gris instead of his real name. 

Gris exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants of 1912, by which time his work was fully Cubist and tinged with the intellectual reflection that would mark his entire oeuvre. That year he also took part in the exhibition of the Section d’Or and began to make a name for himself, as prominent people from the art world started to acquire his works. Shortly afterwards he signed a contract with the dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, with whom he developed a close friendship. 

During the summer of 1913 Gris spent some time in Céret, where Picasso was also staying. In the village of the French Pyrenees he began to develop the papier collé technique, continuing the groundwork laid by Picasso and Braque earlier in the year. Throughout the First World War Gris worked in Paris, where his first oneman show was held at the Galerie L’Effort Moderne in 1919. In 1922, by which time his health had badly deteriorated, he settled in Boulogne-sur-Seine, where he lived until his early death in 1927. 

From 1922 to 1924 Gris designed the stage sets for two of Serge Diaghilev’s ballets, Les Tentations de la bergère and La Colombe. In parallel with these activities, he continued to paint and write theoretical essays such as Notes sur ma peinture (1923) and Des possibilités de la peinture (1924).

WHEN?

From October 6, 2017 to February 25, 2018

Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Closed Monday (except holidays Monday)

WHERE?

Museo Carmen Thyssen Malaga
Plaza Carmen Thyssen
C/Compañía, 10
29008
Málaga

 

HOY MUCH?

Permanent Collection

General: 6€

Reduced: 3,50€

Temporary Exhibition

General: 4,50€

Reduced: 2,50€

HOW TO BUY THE TICKETS?

Tickets are on sale up to 30 minutes before closing time. Visitors will be asked to begin leaving the galleries 10 minutes before closing time. 

Online Tickets sales, please click here.