Culture
-
-
Barcelona 02.07.09
Maurice de Vlaminck, a Fauve Instinct. Paintings from 1900 to 1915
"What I could only have done in society by throwing a bomb (...), I have tried to do in painting, using pure colours, as they come out of the tube. That way I have satisfied my desire to destroy, to disobey, and to recreate a sensitive, living, free ...Read more -
Madrid 04.06.09
The Worlds of Islam in the Aga Khan Museum Collection
The art, the history, the traditions and the geographies of the Islamic world from the Far East to the Iberian Peninsula are the subjects of the exhibition The Worlds of Islam in the Aga Khan Museum Collection. Organised by "la Caixa" Social and ...Read more -
Barcelona 21.05.09
Palladio, the Architect (1508-1580)
For five centuries the name Andrea Palladio, regarded as "the architect's architect", has been a byword for architecture. Born the son of a miller, he conquered the whole world with his revolutionary conception of architecture, and made it more ...Read more -
Barcelona 07.04.09
The Sea of Barceló arrives at CaixaForum Barcelona
A singular, unique work in contemporary art. An ambitious and complex intervention on a colossal canvas measuring a thousand square metres, with a result of captivating beauty that seizes spectators and transports them to a sea that emerges with ...Read more -
Madrid 09.03.09
Maurice de Vlaminck, a Fauve Instinct. Paintings from 1900 to 1915
"What I could only have done in society by throwing a bomb (...), I have tried to do in painting, using pure colours, as they come out of the tube. That way I have satisfied my desire to destroy, to disobey, and to recreate a sensitive, living, free ...Read more -
-
Madrid 10.02.09
Risk Zones. ”la Caixa” Foundation Contemporary Art Collection
How does art see the conflicts that are marking our existence in an ever more uncertain and unpredictable world? In what ways are artists and their works affected by the current unsettling scenario, dominated as it is by violence, inequality, social ...Read more -
Madrid 04.02.09
Barceló’s sea in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations Room of the UN in Geneva
A singular, unique work in contemporary art. An ambitious and complex intervention on a colossal canvas measuring a thousand square metres, with a result of captivating beauty that seizes spectators and transports them to a sea that emerges with ...Read more