FEB.11.2023 – MAY.07.2023, MAD

Leonora Carrington

Revelation

Leonora Carrington. Revelation is the first retrospective to be devoted to the artist in Spain. A versatile and eclectic creator continually in search of new forms of expression, Carrington configured a unique aesthetic and conceptual universe that makes her an essential figure for an analysis of 20^th-century art in its totality.

Ahead of her time with regard to ecology and women’s rights, Leonora Carrington devised a language through which she evoked “a fascinating world of magic rituals in which nothing is what it seems and in which the most incredible transformations take place”, in the words of Tere Arcq, co-curator of the exhibition with the art historian Carlos Martín and Stefan van Raay, director of the Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst in Amstelveen, the Netherlands.

FEB.11.2023 – MAY.07.2023, MAD

Facundo de Zuviría

Images of Buenos Aires

Facundo de Zuviría. Images of Buenos Aires is the first retrospective in Spain to be devoted to this Argentinian artist, one of the most important names in photography today. The exhibition reflects his “obsession”, to use the term that he has himself employed on various occasions, with his native city.

Over the past forty years Facundo de Zuviría (born Buenos Aires, 1954) has tirelessly photographed the city’s shop fronts and façades, signs, advertisements and pedestrians, giving rise to a sequence of many images that are in fact just one: a beautiful and nostalgic testimony to time passing through a great city and its inhabitants.

The exhibition features nearly 200 black and white and colour photographs taken between 1982 and 2022.

FEB.16.2023 – MAY.14.2023, BCN

Ilse Bing

The lengthy life and career of Ilse Bing (1899-1998) provides an interesting reflection of the 20^th  century’s principal cultural trends and historical events. In Bing’s photographs the aesthetic ideas of the century’s succeeding artistic styles and movements come together through a gaze that is unique in its humanistic nature and its intense but subtly expressed social conscience.

Together with other significant figures such as Nora Dumas, Gisèle Freund and Berenice Abbott, Ilse Bing was among was the female photographers who achieved a reputation and recognition in the field that had previously been denied to women.

FEB.16.2023 – MAY.14.2023, BCN

Anastasia Samoylova

Image Cities

The Image Cities project by Russian-American photographer Anastasia Samoylova was the winning entry in the first edition of the KBr Photo Award, launched by Fundación MAPFRE in 2021. The project is a unique visual study of the integration between photographic images and the urban environment, usually constructed by superimposing collages. The project, which began in Moscow and New York in 2021, has been extended to other cities including Amsterdam, Paris, London, Brussels, Tokyo, Madrid and Barcelona thanks to the KBr Photo Award.