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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Madrid 02.06.05

Exhibition: A Subtle Line: Shoji Ueda 1913-2000

Are, bure and boke (grainy, blurred and out of focus). These were the photographs that predominated in the Japan of late 1970. Amongst that hotchpotch of gaudy images, the photos of Shoji Ueda stand out for their silence. "Young, lively and strange" ...
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Barcelona 30.05.05

Exhibition: La sortie des usines

What is it that we do not see? How do we look? These are questions that Rogelio López Cuenca (Nerja, Málaga, 1959) constantly poses in his work. An explorer of icons and signs, López Cuenca bases his production on an able rereading of the images ...
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Barcelona 22.09.04

The Fundació ”la Caixa” inaugurates CosmoCaixa Barcelona, the new Science Museum

From the existence of elementary particles to the age of Quixote, some 13,700 million years of evolution have taken place. This is the lengthy journey that can be undertaken by visitors to CosmoCaixa Barcelona, the new, Fundació "la Caixa" Science ...
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Salamanca 30.10.03

Exhibition:Encounter between Two Collections

Providing a meeting point in which the 1990s artistic production of young Portuguese and Spanish creators could come face-to-face and relate to each other is the main objective of this exhibition that arises out of close collaboration between ...
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Barcelona 15.04.03

Visual Arts: 19th century photography in Spain

"Our busy century doesn't always have time to read, but it does have time to see," said Theóphile Gautier in 1858. Two decades beforehand, the first photographic procedure (the daguerreotype) had swept through Europe, and with it the figure of the ...
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Barcelona 10.03.03

Season of tears

Season of tears is the title given to the installation presented by Soledad Sevilla (Valencia, 1944) in CaixaForum. The work marks the beginning of a cycle of modern art interventions in the Secret Garden. Designed by Japanese architect Arata ...
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