Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. This fact would become a symbol for the European exploration of other lands that would change the collective mindset and imagination of the Old Continent. Running parallel to this, the technological ...

A guere mask identifies and chases those guilty of crime, and can even become their executioner; the ngang or Bembe fetishists inserted relics of the deceased (fingernails or hairs) into the anus of the statuettes to instill the spirit of the dead ...

In European history, the Way to Santiago has been one of the earliest unifying elements of the old continent. The discovery of the sepulchre of St James, the first martyred apostle, in the 9th Century proved to be a point of reference which helped ...

"The Master said: ‘I would prefer not speaking!' Tsze-kung said: ‘If you, Master, do not speak, what shall we, your disciples, have to record?' The Master said: 'Does Heaven speak? The four seasons pursue their courses, and the hundred creatures ...

As a way of hooking people, a large window. Behind it, a mysterious show. In front of it, an astounded audience. Using these ingredients, Javier Peñafiel (Zaragoza, 1964) presents in CaixaForum's auditorium Public Absence, an installation piece that ...

Fear of otherness, but also of oneself. Situations of psychosis, panic and anguish repeated day after day. Wars of mass destruction and terrorist massacres, yet also mental imbalance and split personalities. We live immersed in a ‘geography of fear' ...

Today, the Mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, the President of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, and the Chairman of "la Caixa" Ricardo Fornesa will preside over a foundation stone-laying ceremony for CaixaForum Madrid, ...

"I'm dreaming of a book on Matisse colour." These words were spoken to Matisse by the publisher Tériade on 20 August 1940. Seven years later, the book Jazz was published, an artist's book that is incredibly joyful, despite the turbulent times out of ...

Thirty thousand brown envelopes hidden under the floorboards of an apartment for 35 years, bound by rubber bands and ordered by period, place and type of film. Each contained a negative inside a tiny paper sachet. Written on each envelope, in ...