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Exhibitions
Tomoko Yoneda
Chrysanthemums , 2011
© Tomoko Yoneda. Courtesy of the artist and ShugoArts
11.FEB.2021 – 09.MAY.2021 , MAD
Tomoko Yoneda
Tomoko Yoneda studied photography in Chicago and later in London, where she currently lives. Although she wanted to study journalism, she soon realized that through images she was able to communicate much more than through words.
Prinzessin Turandot [Princess Turandot], 1912
Private collection, Switzerland. Held by the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern.
11.FEB.2021 – 09.MAY.2021 , MAD
Alexéi von Jawlensky
A pioneer in the development of the autonomy of a painting that, at the beginning of the 20th century, moves towards abstraction, Jawlensky’s work is characterized by works based on series and almost obsessive returns, in connection with musical language, an area that inspired many artists of this generation.
Le chant de l’oiseau à la rosée de la lune / The song of the bird to the dew of the moon, 1955
© Successió Miró 2021
Espacio Miró
Entering the artistic universe of Miró means discovering the embodiment of pure color, identifying the logic of symbols and evaluating the difficult harmony between the constant and the ethereal. The Catalan artist, who exerted a powerful influence on key American painters of the mid-20th century, was a creator, magician and genius of contemporary.
Claudia Andujar
Susi Korihana thëri nadando, Catrimani, Roraima, 1972-1974
© Claudia Andujar
26.FEB.2021 – 23.MAY.2021 , BCN
Claudia Andujar
We begin the 2021 exhibition program with the largest exhibition to date dedicated to the work of Brazilian artist Claudia Andujar (born in Switzerland in 1931), who, for more than five decades, has dedicated her life to taking photographs and protecting the Yanomami, one of the largest and most endangered indigenous groups in Brazil.
Portraits of a woman and a man, ca.1840-1860
Case with two daguerreotypes from the Ángel Fuentes de Cía collection
© Josep Maria Oliveras
26.FEB.2021 – 23.MAY.2021 , BCN
The Captive Gaze
In collaboration with the Center of Research and Dissemination of the Image (CDRI) at the Gerona City Council, Fundación MAPFRE presents the first of the exhibitions to be organized with Catalan institutions to showcase their rich photographic heritage at the KBr. On this occasion the exhibition is dedicated to the origins of photography.
Travelling exhibitions
Paul Strand
Wall Street, New York, 1915
Fundación MAPFRE Collections
© Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand Archive
PAUL STRAND. FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE COLLECTIONS
– 30
Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme, Las Palmas
Commitment. Documentarism. Innovation.
Paul Strand is one of the fundamental creators of the photography history. From the initial images he took in New York in the 1910s to the last ones he took in his garden in Orgeval at the end of his life, along with those he took during his trips to Mexico, New England, France, Italy, the Hebrides Islands or Ghana, his work and his projects are today considered a reference.
This exhibition is articulated around the major themes that preoccupied Strand throughout his life (geometries, landscapes, portraits and countries) through which the keys to the enormous importance and value of his work are made clear. In the words of Juan Naranjo, gallery owner and editor, “Strand went beyond the mere revelation of the formal beauty of the world: he was a committed artist who explored other paths of documentalism, in which he balanced form and content. He also projected his ethical and social commitment in his photographs. Throughout his life he continued to interact with important creators and maintained his connection with the most innovative currents of thought and with the new photographic theories. His extensive and interesting works of art made him one of the most important photographers of the 20th century”.
Paz Errázuriz
Mago Karman, Santiago, from the series The Circus, 1988
Fundación MAPFRE Collections
© Paz Errázuriz, courtesy of the artist
PAZ ERRÁZURIZ. FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE COLLECTIONS
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Art Museum Miguel Urrutia, Bogotá
Curiosity. Transgression. Nonconformism.
Since she began her photography career in the 1960s, in the midst of the Pinochet dictatorship, Chilean photographer Paz Errázuriz has shown in her work a great curiosity for the human condition and for the underpriviledged of society: the mentally ill, the homeless, circus performers, transsexuals, prostitutes and indigenous natives. n her images of brothels, asylums, psychiatric hospitals, she captures the singularity of human behavior, breaking taboos.
This exhibition, composed of 171 photographies and 2 videos, aims to show the key series that make up the works of this artist, in which portraits become the best tool to showcase the most decadent and marginal face of Chilean society. The use of black and white intensifies the message of condemnation.
Bebe, Savignac de Miremont, 2011
Gelatin silver prints, contact
© Nicholas Nixon.
Fundación MAPFRE Collections.
NICHOLAS NIXON
– APR.
Tomie Ohtake Institute, Sao Paulo
Portraits. Feelings. Humanity.
Nicholas Nixon holds a unique and outstanding place in the history of photography in recent decades. His work, carried out with a very refined technique and a careful composition, takes us into his everyday reality. His closeness and humanity make the viewer participate and identify with the emotions that underlie his images.
Nixon has always worked on series in which he mentions fundamental aspects of human life, and one of them is the passing of time. Some of his works, such as The Brown Sisters or his family portraits can be found throughout his entire career. The way he works requires a great deal of time: the photographer establishes a relationship with the person being photographed generating an intimacy and trust that is reflected in his images.
Although his career is distinguished by and dedicated to portraits, Nixon also portrays spaces and objects, showing us themes he was attracted to with extraordinary clarity.
Paz Errázuriz
Mago Karman, Santiago, from the series The Circus, 1988
Fundación MAPFRE Collections
© Paz Errázuriz, courtesy of the artist
PAZ ERRÁZURIZ. FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE COLLECTIONS
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Moreira Salles Institute, São Paulo, Brazil
Daring, committed and a defender of human rights..
The work of Paz Errázuriz (Santiago de Chile, 1944) is very unconventional; her way of exploring reality confronts us with difficult, uncomfortable images that make no concessions to the viewer.
The nonconformist view of this Chilean photographer turns her photographs into a tool for the defense of human rights, those excluded by the Chilean regime and by society. Her work features the mentally ill, the homeless, circus performers, transsexuals, prostitutes and indigenous people.
This exhibition, composed mainly of works from Fundación MAPFRE’s collections, aims to show the key series that make up the artist’s work, in which portraits become the best tool to showcase the most decadent and marginal face of Chilean society and the use of black and white intensifies the message of complaint.
In this video of Maria Clara Villas you will be able to see the whole assembly process of the exhibition.
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