SEP.22.2023 – JAN.07.2024, MAD

Medardo Rosso

Pioneer of modern sculpture

Deeply misunderstood in his day, valued only by those at the cutting edge of art, the work of Medardo Rosso (Turin, 1858-Milan, 1928) is today extremely innovative and ahead of its time. The artist, who preferred to leave Italy and flee from academicism in search of Parisian cosmopolitanism, was a visionary who, with his more experimental work, which is the focus of this exhibition, proposed a break with the sculptural tradition, advancing the aesthetic approaches that would later be followed by the great sculptors of the 20th century.

SEP.22.2023 – JAN.07.2024, MAD

Mathieu Pernot

Document/Monument

With an unconventional and alternative approach, the work of Mathieu Pernot (1972) explores the margins of society through themes that are recurrently and transversally intertwined in his career: migrants, displaced persons, victims of war, the gipsy…His images incorporate elements of documentary photography and archive work to end up conveying a vision of these realities far removed from univocal or immutable interpretations.

Document/Monument is the first retrospective exhibition to be presented in Spain of a work that has already been recognized by relevant awards (the Nadar in 2013, the Niépce in 2014 and, more recently, in 2019, the prestigious Henri Cartier-Bresson) that place Pernot among the most prominent names on the panorama of contemporary photography.

SEP.22.2023 – JAN.07.2024, MAD

Sorolla and Summer

Summer leisure on the beach is one of the themes that runs through the entire work of Joaquín Sorolla (1863-1923). Always captured from life, the depictions of working at the sea and summer leisure on the beach are probably the most popular in his oeuvre and are also an interesting testimony to the evolution of the sea environment in relation to its therapeutic properties and the emergence of summer as a period of entertainment and sociability throughout the 19th century.

Sorolla and Summer presents a careful selection of forty works (half of them small-format) on this essential theme in the career of the great Valencian artist.

SEP.28.2023 – JAN.28.2024, BCN

William Eggleston

Mystery of the Ordinary

William Eggleston (1939, Memphis, Tennessee, USA) is a living legend of photography. In 1976 the MoMA (New York) organised a single-artist exhibition of his work, making him the first photographer to have a large-scale colour photograph exhibited in a museum. Along with other great contemporary photographers such as Gary Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, Eggleston was part of a generation of authors whose work in the 1970s broke free of many of the rules and restrictive concepts of the medium, one of the most important of which was that artistic photography could only be artistic if it was in black and white. William Eggleston, Mystery of the Ordinary is one of the most extensive exhibitions to date in Spain on this exceptional photographer.

SEP.28.2023 – JAN.28.2024, BCN

KBr Flama 23

KBr Fundación MAPFRE presents the third edition of the annual appointment with the emerging creation of the new generations of photographers starting their professional careers after their studies in Barcelona.  This year the exhibition will feature the projects of Alan Balzac (Galicia, 1999), Ivette Blaya (Santa Margarida de Montbui, Barcelona, 2000), Rocío Madrid (Melilla, 1988) and Lucía Morón (Buenos Aires, 1997), selected through a selection process with professionals from the sector.