Every month we like Bezzia propose different cultural plans. The last ones were related to photography and theater. This time, however, they are four painting exhibitions those that concern us. Exhibitions that can be seen from this month of February in cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Bilbao or Córdoba. And that join the permanent exhibitions that we can enjoy throughout the year in our cities.
Aurelia Navarro. The poetics of intimacy
- Date: From February 4 to April 17, 2022.
- Where: Museum of Fine Arts of Córdoba.
This is the first individual exhibition project on the artist, which compiles works from her different creative stages. From the beginning of her, in which she shared with Muñoz Lucena the interest in the representation of costumbrista themes. She was like that until she formed an individual imaginary, the result of her own creative sensibility, inhabited by more naturalistic female figures, far removed from the dominant stereotypes.
Aurelia Navarro is considered the painter of intimacy, configuring in her work a complex universe of female characters who claim their own space in which to preserve their privacy. The protagonists are female figures from her immediate environment. Lonely women, secluded in her inner world, which allows her to delve into her emotional and psychological aspects. In these works, the author demonstrated her great capacity as a teacher of color, evolving from a painting with precious and delicate brushstrokes, towards a more expressive invoice.
From Fauvism to Surrealism: Masterpieces from the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
- Date: From February 11, 2022 to May 22, 2022.
- Where: Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
The Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (MAM) and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao present a selection of some 70 masterpieces by fundamental artists, going through the history of the MAM collection in order to offer a panoramic view of avant-garde movements that hatched in Paris in the first decades of the XNUMXth century.
The MAM was built for the historic International Exhibition (1937) to house the modern and contemporary art collections of the city of Paris. Funds that were expanded in the following years thanks to important acquisitions of works by relevant authors of the Parisian art scene. However, the MAM did not officially open as a museum until 1961. Patrons were key supporters of the project, especially Dr. Maurice Girardin, whose bequest to the museum in 1953 became the core of the Modern Masters collection, in which included fauvist and cubist authors, as well as representatives of the School of Paris.
French taste and its presence in Spain
- Date: From February 11, 2022 to May 08, 2022.
- Where: Mapfre Foundation. Recollects, Madrid.
- Curator: Amaya Alzaga.
A cross-cutting project such as «French taste», which covers such an extensive historical period, cannot be understood without its historical context. In this sense, the exhibition also addresses aspects that make this evolution visible, such as diplomatic relations, the history of collecting or the construction of national identities.
Through numerous paintings, drawings, sculptures, pieces of sumptuary and decorative arts and everyday objects, the exhibition aims to delve into the evolution of French taste in our country. The project is the result of extensive research work, which has brought to light works that were thought to have disappeared. The exhibition has the support of important Spanish institutions such as the National Library of Spain, the Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, the Prado National Museum, the Thyssen Bornemisza National Museum, the Romanticism Museum, the Decorative Arts Museum or National Heritage . As well as outstanding private collections, whose works are presented for the first time in an exhibition.
Luis Claramunt. shipwrecks and storms
- Date: From January 21, 2022 to May 1, 2022
- Where: Espais Volart. Vila Casas Foundation. Barcelona.
- Curated by Sílvia Martínez Palou and Àlex Susanna.
This anthological exhibition of the work of Luis Claramunt (Barcelona, 1951-Zarautz, 2000) aims to review his dazzling thirty-year career and at the same time vindicate him as one of the most personal, intense and dramatic Catalan artists of the second half of the XNUMXth century.
The son of a wealthy family in Barcelona's Eixample, he left the family home when he was 18 years old to immerse himself in the most rogue Barcelona and adopt the gypsy culture. In his early years, his pictorial work included a range of very evident influences –from Picasso to Munch, passing through Goya, Van Gogh, Gutiérrez Solana or Nonell–. But he gradually creates his own expressionist imagery using an increasingly gestural or calligraphic language. Tireless Flâneur, he drew his sources of inspiration both from street life and from his main authors, for example Stevenson, Conrad or Monfreid, all of them narrators of dramatic adventures at sea lived in the first person, which the artist recreated in a very personal.
Which of these painting exhibitions would you go to see without hesitation if it were in your city?