There’s no getting away from it, this season’s exhibition programme for Articket museums is just brimming with exquisite proposals, with some exhibitions already on show and others soon to be inaugurated. So grab your calendar and take notes, because if art gives you the same rush as it does us, you’re in for a thrilling autumn!
► “MiróMatisse. Beyond the Images”, the bond between two great artists at the Fundació Joan Miró
This major and highly anticipated exhibition can be enjoyed until February 9. On the surface, any comparison between Miró and Matisse may seem paradoxical, since the artists belong to two different generations, moved in different artistic circles and had different stylistic approaches. This exhibition, however, showcases the deep, enduring and constructive relationships between the two artists, their views on art and their works.
How were Matisse and Miró introduced to each other’s works? What did they see, or what could they see in each other? Who were the key players in facilitating this contact? Now you can find out all with your Articket at the Fundació Joan Miró.
► “Eveli Torent. Between Els Quatre Gats and Freemasonry”, revisiting a forgotten artist at the Museu Nacional
The Museu Nacional revisits the figure of this painter and illustrator, who is little known but boasts a singular personality and career. His foray into the artistic world took place against the backdrop of Els 4 Gats – a major epicentre of Catalan Art Nouveau, or Modernisme in Catalan – where he would meet some of the most senior exponents of Modernity and rub shoulders with the likes of Picasso, Carles Casagemas, Joaquim Mir and Hermen Anglada Camarasa.
After visiting Paris and New York, Torent returned to Barcelona in 1921 and began a new chapter primarily given over to teaching, a firm commitment to philanthropy and his sojourns at the Torre d’en Rovira in Ibiza, which he transformed into a unique, handsome public museum and humanist retreat. Franco’s suppression of Freemasonry led the artist to prison, and he died shortly upon his release. Running until February 16!
► “Antoni Tàpies. The Practice of Art”, eight decades of frenetic production at the Museu Tàpies
To mark the centenary of the birth of Antoni Tàpies and running until May 4, this exhibition at the Museu Tàpies offers a synthesis of the artist’s creative exploration. From his very first works of the 1940s to those completed just a few months before his death, Tàpies experimented tirelessly with all manner of formats, techniques and materials, hence unshackling himself from the prejudices inherent in academic tradition.
His work proposes new aesthetic means of contemplating the contemporary world, from a perspective drawing from matter and existence. Thanks to numerous national and international loans from public institutions and private collections, this retrospective is one of the most extensive reappraisals of the artist’s work to date.
► “Amazons. The Ancestral Future”, environmental impact in a region essential for the future of the planet, at the CCCB
Showing at the CCCB from November 13, this exhibition offers a sensory journey through the immense rivers and forests, and the sounds, smells, cities, rituals, peoples and life stories of Amazonian communities. A land of extraordinary cultural and natural wealth that today is under threat, and whose issues are addressed by the exhibition with the help of the region’s leading scientists and researchers.
Far from providing a folkloric or fatalistic vision of life in the Amazon, the exhibition advocates the connection and profound knowledge that Amazonian peoples have of nature and their ancestors. Not only does it tell us of this invaluable culture and ecosystem, but it also makes us reflect upon ourselves as a society, the fragility of our environment and the urgent need to return to more respectful ways of living.
► “Bird Machine Dream” and Teresa Solar Abboud’s enormous sculptural installations at the MACBA
A solo exhibition by Teresa Solar Abboud that juxtaposes different stages in the artist’s career: from her initial experimentation with videographics, to her first foray into sculpture with ceramics and trials with other soft-art materials, until finally achieving her own language through her huge immersive sculptures.
Dream Machine Bird immerses us in the journey of an artistic practice that from its beginnings has explored the same questions about the encounter between space and time, while appealing to a contemporary, fragmentary and constantly moving subject. Visit it at MACBA with your Articket from November 21!
► “From Montmartre to Montparnasse. Catalan artists in Paris (1889-1914)” at the Museu Picasso
Santiago Rusiñol, Ramon Casas, Isidre Nonell, Pablo Picasso, Joaquim Sunyer, Lluïsa Vidal, Laura Albéniz, Pau Casals, Isaac Albéniz, Enric Granados, Joaquim Nin, Maria Gay and Jaume Brossa are just some of the names you will be able to contemplate from November 22 at the Museu Picasso, in this exhibition on artists who all lived and worked in Paris, and who all struggled to find their way based on a mainstay of unrelinquished artistic and creative freedom.
The Paris that these Catalan artists and creators were introduced to at the turn of the 20th century, was the world capital of modern art and the cradle of avant-garde experimentation. This multidisciplinary exhibition allows the public to delve into the urban and human landscape of the time, its day-to-day reality and the different ways of living it, shedding light on the work of the artists and what shaped it, and also on their world of leisure and shows.
