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SEP.19.2024 – JAN.05.2025, MAD

Paul Durand-Ruel

And the Twilight of Impressionism

This exhibition has a twofold objective. Firstly, it aims to raise awareness of the extraordinary art dealer and patron Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), who championed and promoted the most innovative and original art of his time, initially from his Parisian gallery and later from branches in New York, London, and Brussels. Secondly, it seeks to contextualize and highlight the work of five artists from the last generation of the Impressionist movement whom he openly supported (André, D’Espagnat, Loiseau, Maufra, and Moret), giving them the recognition they deserve in the history of art.

SEP.19.2024 – JAN.05.2025, MAD

31 Women

An Exhibition by Peggy Guggenheim

31 Women: An Exhibition by Peggy Guggenheim brings together the work of the thirty-one artists who participated in the 1943 exhibition ‘Exhibition by 31 Women’, organized by Peggy Guggenheim at her New York gallery, ‘Art of This Century’. Many of these artists were associated with the Surrealist movement and Abstraction, encompassing both established figures and emerging talents in the art scene.

The exhibition underscores Guggenheim’s role as a patron and addresses the context in which the women artists she worked with at her New York gallery developed their work, as well as the collaborative networks they established among themselves.

SEP.19.2024 – JAN.05.2025, MAD

Weegee

Autopsy of the Spectacle

Arthur H. Fellig, known as Weegee (1899-1968), quickly gained international acclaim for his photographs of the underworld and the marginal environments of New York nightlife in the 1930s and 1940s. However, his work related to his stay in Hollywood (1947-1951), which focused on the Californian upper class and the social life of major film stars, has not generally received the same recognition. This exhibition aims to resolve this disparity by highlighting the importance and relevance of this second period in the way it expresses a critique of the ‘society of the spectacle’, as well as its continuity with the best-known part of Weegee’s oeuvre.

OCT.11.2024 – JAN.26.2025, BCN

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Watch! Watch! Watch!

Born in 1908 and died in 2004, Cartier-Bresson was a witness of the 20th century, of which he ended up becoming probably the best-known photographic chronicler. In 1947, he founded, together with Robert Capa, the Magnum agency, which distributed his photographs all over the world. His interest was always in capturing with his camera what he called “the decisive instant”, a conception of photography that he was able to translate into images as surprising as they were moving, many of which have become icons of the last century.

This exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Bucerius Kunstforum in Hamburg, offers a broad and profound approach to his work as a whole.

OCT.11.2024 – JAN.26.2025, BCN

KBr Flama’24

KBr Fundación MAPFRE presents the fourth edition of its annual event showcasing emerging creators and the new generation of photographers who are embarking on their professional careers after completing their studies in Barcelona. This year’s exhibition will feature the projects of laura aranda lavado (Granollers, 1994), Estefania Bedmar (Cerdanyola del Vallès, 1989), Malu Reigal (Murcia, 1992), and Alain Rojas Pastor (Esplugues de Llobregat, 1987), selected by a jury formed on this occasion by Carles Guerra, Silvia Omedes and Arianna Rinaldo.