Exhibitions in 2010

This exhibition commemorated one hundred years of art in the United States, from the emergence of native American spirit art in the late 19th century through to the post-war American painting of the mid-20th century. This was the first international touring exhibition to be dedicated in its entirety to the North American art held in the Phillips Collection.

The exhibition was curated jointly with the Center for Creative Photography of the University of Arizona and comprised more than one hundred photographs featuring the work of one of the great American artists of the 20th century.

In collaboration with the Centre Pompidou and the Fotomuseum Winterthur, this exhibition featured over 400 works showing the convergence of the Surrealist movement with photography as a language and as an art form. The exhibition invited visitors to immerse themselves in the process of research and discovery that the members of this movement experienced, camera in hand, while pushing the boundaries of these media to achieve their ends.

This retrospective exhibition of Spanish photographer Anna Malagrida showcased one of the most interesting professional careers in Spanish contemporary art. Since 1998 she has put on numerous exhibitions and won various prizes and awards, such as the Rencontres Internationales award for photography in Arles in 2005. Her work also forms part of some important national and international private and public collections. In 2016 she was awarded the Carte Blanche award by the PMU and the Centre Pompidou.

This exhibition presented the work of Indian photographer Dayanita Singh (New Delhi, 1961) for the first time in Spain. The author of a powerful and varied range of work that is impossible to categorize or pigeonhole, Dayanita Singh is one of India’s most international artists and offers a wide-ranging vision of the different realities of contemporary India. In 2008 she was awarded the Robert Gardner Fellowship by la Harvard University Art Museums and the prestigious Prince Claus Award.

This exhibition looked back on the history of the most important modern art movement through masterpieces loaned by the Musée d’Orsay. Fundación MAPFRE exhibited 90 master works by Manet, Monet, Renoir, Sisley, Pisarro and Cézanne, among others. This was the first time a group of Impressionist pieces of this caliber had been presented together in Spain, and offered visitors a unique opportunity to get a comprehensive overview, through these great masters, of a movement that changed the world’s perceptions, setting out the path to modernity.