Travelling exhibitions

OCT.05.2019 – JAN.05.2020

Fotomuseum Den Haag, The Hague

Feelings. Timelessness. Technique.

Richard Learoyd‘s images are captivating. His figures and still-lifes move in a space suspended in time.

This English artist takes his photographs with a camera obscura: a huge studio camera he designed himself, based on antiquarian optical principles. This instrument enables his works to resemble old paintings, both in terms of the themes and the technique. His large-scale color portraits of which there is only one copy, do not look like photographs. His sitters seem to urge us to get to know them. Their pose and the way they look at the camera create an atmosphere around them that peaks our curiosity and invites us to try to understand them.

The exhibition covers the last ten years of his work across 51 works from important public and private collections and the photographer’s own studio.

SEP.13.2019 – DIC.14.2019

FOAM, Ámsterdam

Paris. Inspiration. Daily existence.

Brassaï captured the less cosmopolitan and more lively side of Paris with his camera, managing to take such powerful and evocative photographs that they became true cultural icons, symbols of an era and witnesses to his irresistible fascination for the city of lights. The city’s places of entertainment, from bars to fairs and their personalities, mobsters, outcasts, prostitutes and drug addicts were what motivated Brassaï to penetrate this underground Parisian world.

Although this Hungarian photographer (born with the name Gyula Halász) photographed Paris at night in a way that has never been replicated to this day, he also focused on daily life in the city during daylight hours. The monuments and the details of daily life feature heavily in the scenes captured in his images.

The exhibition also introduces us to other artistic sides to Brassaï. Sketches of female nudes and his interest in the world of graffiti round off this retrospective covering his entire career.

Immerse yourselves in Brassaï’s secret Paris.

SEP.07.2019 – DEC.01.2019

Huis Marseille, Ámsterdam

Full of life. Bold. Offbeat.

After a stay at our Barcelona and Madrid exhibition halls, the Berenice Abbott. Portraits of Modernity exhibition is traveling to Amsterdam to offer an exhaustive journey through the world of this exceptional American photographer.

Berenice Abbott provides us with her personal vision of an era. The photographer gives us an insight into the 20^th century with her offbeat look at Paris and New York and demonstrates her superb aesthetic talent through her portrayal of artists and intellectuals of the mid-20^th century.

In an exceptional portrayal of the modernity of the new century, her photographs reflect her vast technical intelligence and the bold vision that characterized both her work and her life.

MAY.30.2019 – SEP.11.2019

Palácio das Artes

Etcher. Sensual. Enigmatic.

Picasso was one of the greatest etchers of the 20^th century and in history, together with Rembrandt and Goya. The Vollard Suite, one of the most important artistic testimonies of the last century, is a clear example of this.

This series of etchings serves as a summary of Picasso’s oeuvre, in which we can observe all the themes and methods that characterized this great painter from Malaga. Classicism, cubism, some surrealism, expressionism and realism are just some of the styles we will come across in this body of work comprising 100 of the artist’s etchings carried out between 1930 and 1937.

In 2008, Fundación MAPFRE acquired a full series for its collection, which is on display for the first time in Oporto, Portugal, today. In this exhibition we can revel in the personal and creative world of an artist who swung between order and violence, classicism and disfigurement.

MAY.21.2019 – SEP.15.2019

Universidad de Valencia. Centre Cultural La Nau

Image maker. Innovative. Unclassifiable.

Humberto Rivas is a central artist in the development of photography in Spain from the first half of the seventies onwards. Once he had landed in Barcelona from Buenos Aires, his work had a huge impact on the city’s artistic scene where he became an important player in it and was considered as one of the main drivers of the recognition of photography as a medium for artistic creation in Spain.

In Rivas’ portraits, the precise subject matter of the image is always the most significant aspect of it. The people he photographs, in the same way as the cityscapes, as he liked to say, “choose it in order to be recorded by his camera”. In his photography there are landscapes without people and people without landscapes; either one or the other, but never both together in the same image.

This exhibition covers the work of this impossible-to-classify photographer’s work throughout his career, which encompasses all of the 1970s and up until 2005.

MAR.29.2019 – JUN.23.2019

Museums in Sitges

Genius. Tradition. Modernity.

Following on from their time at the Fundación Picasso in Malaga, the Museo de Bellas Artes in Havana, the Instituto Cervantes in New York, the Museo Nacional de Arte in Mexico and the Baas Museum of Art in Miami, among others, our collection of drawings has now come to Sitges, in order to showcase part of Fundación MAPFRE’s collection of drawings.

This exhibition offers a careful selection of 47 sketches from leading artists of the 19^th and 20^th century which belong to the Fundación MAPFRE collection. Mariá Fortuny, Auguste Rodin, Edgar Degas, Joaquín Sorolla, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Francis Picabia, Paul Klee, Joaquín Torres García, Juan Gris, Joaquim Sunyer, Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró are just some of the artists featuring in this exhibition.

Don’t miss out on the work of some of the most important artists and illustrators of the 20^th century.

MAR.29.2019 – JUN.07.2019

Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Originality. Wit. Ingenuity.

Luis Bagaría began his artistic career as a painter but soon moved on to caricatures, quickly becoming of the most important figures in this artistic discipline in the first half of the 20th century.

Trained within the context of Catalan modernism, in 1912 he moved to Madrid where he began to collaborate with the publications La Tribuna, the weekly journal España and the daily paper El Sol, gaining significant notoriety as an artist. Acutely aware of the influence of the press as a form of mass communication, Bagaría brought his brand of humor to the political arena. With his particular drawing style and great ability to summarize events, through his caricatures Bagaría encourages us to reflect on a fairer world.

Having previously been on display in the city of Las Palmas, this exhibition which brings together a selection of approximately one hundred drawings, belonging to the Fundación MAPFRE Collections, arrives at MAPFRE Guanarteme’s heaquarters in Santa Cruz, where it can be enjoyed until June 7.

MAR.14.2019 – JUN.162019

Mexican Palace of Fine Arts

Scenes from daily life. Lights. Shadows.

Ever since Gyula Halász (Brassaï’s original name) arrived in Paris in 1924, he used the city as his main source of inspiration. The way in which he depicted its streets and its inhabitants made him famous and some of his photos became symbols of an era and of the city.

Brassaï captured the soul of Paris with his camera, its daily life and its radiance. Monuments, the quirkiest of spots and scenes of everyday life appear in his work as a reflection of the irresistible fascination the artist felt towards the French capital. But in his quest to portray the city, the photographer did not ignore the darker side of Paris. For Brassaï, the gang members, outcasts, prostitutes and drug addicts all represented the least cosmopolitan aspect of Paris, an aspect imbued with more life and authenticity.

This exhibition covers all of Brassaï’s artistic facets, from photographs and drawings of female nudes to the trips commissioned by Harper’s Bazaar and his interest in the world of graffiti.

Discover Paris through the viewpoint of Brassaï.

MAR.08.2019 – JUN.30.2019

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

Symbols. Travel. Knowledge.

The work of Graciela Iturbide is a faithful reflection of the artist’s interest in symbols and rituals. “Although we reject our education, we carry it with us and it is part of us” according to the Mexican artist. Growing up in a middle-class Catholic environment in Mexico marked her artistic language, into which she incorporated nature and culture, the ancestral traditions and rituals found in everyday life and the symbology of objects.

Iturbide’s camera is a tool employed in the service of knowledge with which she explores and digs deeply into Mexican culture and other realities that she learns about through her travels. India, Panama, the United States, Japan, Korea, Italy; in every country the photographer crafts a piece of work in which speech and movement are captured in a static image of the world.

This exhibition shows the unclassifiable work of one of Mexico’s most renowned photographers on the current international scene. In a complex union between experiences and dreams, the work of Iturbide, surreal and poetic, captures the solitude, the essence and the soul of what it is to be a photographer.