Culture

Notas de prensa
Barcelona 17.11.15

Drawing Versailles. Charles Le Brun (1619-1690). CaixaForum Barcelona

Three and a half centuries after they were produced, the great decorations made for the Palace of Versailles have lost none of their fascination. Drawing Versailles explores how these decorations were applied from the sketches and drawings created ...
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Notas de prensa
Madrid 03.11.15

Women of Rome. Seductive, Maternal, Excessive. CaixaForum Madrid

Roman women were at once the object of love and of fear, and of desire and scorn. Whether respectable matrons, harlots, priestesses or empresses, they were considered inferior under the law. However, despite this subordinate role, basically as wives ...
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Notas de prensa
Barcelona 29.10.15

I Speak, Knowing It’s Not about Speaking . CaixaForum Barcelona

Do we perhaps depend too much on one type of language, on one same system for representation and communication that is predominantly narrative? That is the question that the curator and art critic Juan Canela takes as the starting-point for the ...
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Notas de prensa
Madrid 09.09.15

The Louvre collections, Joan Miró, the Phillips Collection masterpieces and Alvar Aalto will coexist at CaixaForum Madrid for the 2015-2016 season

”la Caixa” Foundation presents its program for its social and cultural centre in Madrid for the 2015-2016 season, marked by a global cultural offering designed for audiences of all ages.
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Notas de prensa
Barcelona 08.09.15

The Louvre’s collections, the masterpieces from the Phillips Collection, Philippe Halsman’s photographs and the Ming Dynasty will coexist at CaixaForum Barcelona during the 2015-2016 season

”la Caixa” Foundation presents its program for its social and cultural centre in Barcelona for the 2015-2016 season, marked by a global cultural offering designed for audiences of all ages.
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Notas de prensa
01.09.15

”la Caixa” Banking Foundation and the British Museum sign an agreement for the joint organisation of exhibitions

Elisa Durán, Deputy General Director of "la Caixa" Banking Foundation, and Sir Richard Lambert, Chairman of the Trustees of the British Museum, have signed an agreement to cooperate in the organisation of four extraordinary exhibitions to be shown ...
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Notas de prensa
Barcelona 02.06.15

Alvar Aalto 1898-1976. Organic Architecture, Art and Design.CaixaForum Barcelona

Alvar Aalto (18981976), who was called the "Magus of the North" by the architectural critic Sigfried Giedion, is the best known Finnish architects of his generation and one of the chief proponents of a human-centred modernism. His buildings such as ...
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Notas de prensa
Madrid 31.03.15

Animals and Pharaohs. The Animal Kingdom in Ancient Egypt. CaixaForum Madrid

A monkey caresses its young while a donkey plays the harp. In the distance, a lion roars. Animals, real or represented, wild or domesticated, played a vital role in Ancient Egypt and were ubiquitous in everyday life.
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Notas de prensa
Barcelona 10.03.15

Three Narratives. Participation. Memory. ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art. CaixaForum Barcelona

Can we explain and classify contemporary art through a single chronological narrative, as has been done with all previous art? Would it not it be more appropriate to propose a simultaneity of discourses that allow us to approach creativity today ...
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