Culture

Notas de prensa
Madrid 05.09.12

CaixaForum Madrid intensifies its cultural activities with an exceptional programme of exhibitions for all audiences

”la Caixa” Foundation presents the programme for the 2012-2013 season at its social and cultural centre in Madrid. The programme features an all-embracing range of activities aimed at all audiences.
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Barcelona 24.07.12

Contemporary Cartographies. Drawing Thought. CaixaForum Barcelona

We map our world in order to gain a glimpse of the reality in which we live. Since time immemorial, maps have been used to represent, translate and encode all kinds of physical, mental and emotional territories. Our representation of the world has ...
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Notas de prensa
Madrid 03.07.12

”la Caixa” Foundation and the Louvre Museum intensify their cooperation in the joint organisation of exhibitions

Following the success of the exhibitions that the organisations they represent have jointly organised in Spain in recent years, Isidre Fainé, president of "la Caixa", and Henri Loyrette, president and director of the Louvre Museum, are to sign a new ...
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Notas de prensa
Madrid 02.07.12

William Blake (1757-1827). Visions in British Art. CaixaForum Madrid

Engraver, painter, poet. The archetypal complete artist, William Blake (London, 1757-1827) was widely misunderstood and scorned in his day. However, he now unquestionably occupies a prominent position in the history of western culture thanks to his ...
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Notas de prensa
Barcelona 19.06.12

Towers and Skyscrapers. From Babel to Dubai. CaixaForum Barcelona

Humanity has long felt driven to build ever upwards, to conquer the sky. The desire to erect constructions that are visible from afar, that act as symbols of prosperity, progress, development and power, is implicit in the very idea of architecture.
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Notas de prensa
Madrid 24.04.12

The Arts of Piranesi. CaixaForum Madrid

In his working methods, Giambattista Piranesi (Venice, 1720 ? Rome, 1778) was a precursor of the role played by architects and designers today. Now, for the first time, an exhibition at CaixaForum Madrid highlights Piranesi's modernity in an ...
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Notas de prensa
Barcelona 15.03.12

Goya. Lights and Shadows. CaixaForum Barcelona

Nearly two hundred years after his death, Francisco de Goya continues to exercise a universal attraction that very few others in the history of art have equalled. Not only is Goya enveloped in the greatness of his art and his genius, he is also ...
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Notas de prensa
Barcelona 14.02.12

Delacroix (1798-1863)

"When I paint a picture, I am not writing a thought". Eugène Delacroix questioned the need for a theme in painting. According to the great French artist, what created emotion on a canvas were its artistic values ? material, light, colour ? rather ...
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Notas de prensa
Madrid 14.12.11

The Persistence of Geometry. Works from ”la Caixa” Foundation and MACBA collections. CaixaForum Madrid

Throughout the 20th century, geometry was an inseparable companion of avantgarde art. Whether promoting an ideal of purity, silencing anything alien to its shapes or speaking of the world once again, geometry provided formalisations for a broad ...
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