Vampires get their teeth into CaixaForum Madrid

The exhibition Vampires: The Evolution of the Myth takes visitors on a comprehensive journey through the history of these creatures, made legendary by the cinema and now more alive than ever in popular culture.

The exhibition, jointly organised by La Cinémathèque française and ”la Caixa”, takes an interdisciplinary approach, focusing particularly on vampires in film, but also exploring how these beings are represented in literature, comics, television and the visual arts, among other media.

The show includes more than 360 works from some thirty museums and private collections, including photographs, drawings, film costumes, manuscripts, books, comics, posters, paintings, engravings, documents and a range of different objects. Visitors can also view 15 film montages featuring excerpts from more than 60 films and TV series.

The outstanding exhibits include Bram Stoker's script for the first stage adaptation of Dracula, costumes from Francis Ford Coppola’s film version of Bram Stoker's Dracula and Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire, engravings by Goya, works by Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the mask and other objects used in Werner Herzog's movie version of Nosferatu the Vampyre.

The event was attended by deputy general director of ”la Caixa” Banking Foundation, Elisa Durán.

Vampires. The evolution of the myth. Place: CaixaForum Madrid (Paseo del Prado, 36). Dates: From 14 February to 7 June 2020.