JUN.01.2022                   AUG.28.2022

Paolo Gasparini

Field of Images

Madrid

JUN.01.2022                   AUG.28.2022

Carlos Pérez Siquier

Madrid

MAY.26.2022                   SEP.04.2022

Bleda y Rosa

Barcelona

MAY.26.2022                   SEP.04.2022

Resonances

Fundación MAPFRE Collections

Barcelona

OCT.06.2022                   JAN.15.2023

Carrie Mae Weems

KBr Photography Center, Fundación MAPFRE (Barcelona)

Multidisciplinary artist Carrie Mae Weems (Oregon, 1953) is best known for the photographic work she has been creating for nearly forty years. This exhibition takes a chronological look at her entire body of work and aims to highlight the way in which Weems approaches photography as an artist ahead of her time, always projecting her images into the future with an unflagging sense of hope.

From her first photographs, focused on family and friends, she gradually develops a broader vision that challenges history and stereotypes while questioning those who exercise power over people who are unable to defend themselves. Weems’ images speak of violence that is exercised deliberately, but at the same time leaves room for scenes of intimacy and love.

Exhibition held in collaboration with Fotocolectania, a space where you can also see other projects by the artist.

OCT.06.2022                   JAN.15.2023

KBr Flama 2022

KBr Photography Center, Fundación MAPFRE (Barcelona)

The Fundación MAPFRE KBr annual appointment with emerging creation and the next generation of photographers who are embarking on their professional careers after having been trained in Barcelona is back. This year’s exhibition will include projects by Nanouch Congost (Girona, 1999), Guillermo Fernández (Granada, 1991), Jordi Miquel Riera (Girona, 1977) and Sílvia Parés (Vic, 1997), selected from among students at the schools of Grisart, Idep Barcelona, IEFC and Elisava, Faculty of Design and Engineering in Barcelona.  The judging panel for the viewing and selection process of this edition was made up of Horacio Fernández, Carles Guerra, Joana Hurtado and Arianna Rinaldo.

In collaboration with the photography schools:  Grisart, Idep Barcelona, IEFC and Elisava, Faculty of Design and Engineering in Barcelona.

SEP.23.2022                   JAN.08.2023

Julio González- Pablo Picasso

Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Exhibition Hall (Madrid)

In 1928, Picasso, then inexperienced in ironwork, asked his friend Julio González to help him with a project for a funerary monument to the poet Guillaume Apollinaire. The two then tackled the creation of a dematerialized sculpture project, “a profound statue of nothing, like poetry, like glory”. This collaboration has traditionally been studied as the genesis of a new type of sculpture, in iron, which dominated the art scene throughout the middle decades of the 20th century. This exhibition goes beyond that well-known approach to delve deeper into the general context in which the metal sculpture of the 1920s developed and to show, moreover, that the artistic affinities and common concerns of both creators were not limited to that brief period, but began in the modernist Barcelona of the early 20th century and continued for years in Paris until the death of Gonzalez in 1942.

SEP.23.2022                   JAN.08.2023

Ilse Bing

Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Exhibition Hall (Madrid)

The work of German photographer Ilse Bing (1899-1998) is difficult to classify. The innovative gaze projected by her images responded to a modern vision, indebted to the impact of the Bauhaus, in which strong contrasts of light and shadow, diagonal angles, plunging and low-angle framing, and solarization predominate.

The exhibition includes nearly 200 works that chronologically span a somewhat short career, from 1929 to the end of the 1950s, but in which Bing addressed a wide range of essential issues in photographic language.