Exhibitions 2019

Different visions of the world from the beginning of the 20th century. Photography fills our exhibition halls

Different visions of the world from the beginning of the 20th century. Photography fills our exhibition halls
The bold gaze of the photographer Berenice Abbott and Richard Learoyd’s camera obscura technique can be enjoyed in both our Madrid and Barcelona photography exhibition halls. Our photography offering is completed this year by the Anthony Hernandez exhibition where we discover the socially-engaged world of this contemporary North American photographer. Through painting we travel through various moments from the first half of the 20th century. The exhibition From Chagall to Malevich: art in revolution evokes the sense of modernity which was sweeping through Russia with the October Revolution and the exhibition of the works of Giovanni Boldini offers a social commentary on the Paris of the beginning of the 20th century.

7 exhibitions in 2019

Eamonn Doyle

Eamonn Doyle
ON (serie) no. 1, 2014
© Eamonn Doyle, courtesy Michael Hoppen Gallery, London

Eamonn Doyle

Madrid
SEP.12.2019
JAN.26.2020

With his trilogy formed by the works entitled i, ON and End and his K series, Eamonn Doyle burst onto the photography scene six years ago and his work has today garnered international acclaim. This exhibition invites us to discover the photographic “prints” of this Irish photographer whose work and life is linked to the music scene and his city, Dublin. The exhibition was open to the public at the Fundación MAPFRE Bárbara de Braganza Exhibition Hall in Madrid.

Boldini and Late 19th Century Spanish Painting. The spirit of an Age

Giovanni Boldini
Cléo de Mérode, 1901
Private collection

Boldini and Late 19th Century Spanish Painting. The spirit of an Age

Madrid
SEP.19.2019
JAN.12.2020

The exhibition staged in our Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Exhibition Hall displayed the work of the painter Giovanni Boldini (Ferrara, 1842 – Paris, 1931) for the first time in Spain. Boldini was one of the most important and prolific of the Italian artists residing in Paris in the second half of the 19th century.

Touching color. The renewal of pastel

Eugène Boudin
Nuages blancs, ciel bleu [White clouds, blue sky], c. 1859
Musée Eugène Boudin, Honfleur
© H. Brauner

Touching color. The renewal of pastel

Barcelona
OCT.03.2019
JAN.05..2020

This exhibition produced by Fundación MAPFRE is comprised of 98 works by 68 artists and was made possible thanks to the support of over seventy institutions and private collectors who have loaned us their works. The show is open to the public at our Fundación MAPFRE Casa Garriga Nogués Exhibition Hall in Barcelona until January 5, 2020.

Richard Learoyd. The Silence of the Camera Obscura

Richard Learoyd
It's about time, 2016
Private collection
© Richard Learoyd. Courtesy of the artist and Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Richard Learoyd. The Silence of the Camera Obscura

Barcelona
JUN.05.2019
SEP.08.2019

The exhibition, which covers the last ten years of his work, is organized by Fundación MAPFRE and curated by Sandra Philips and includes 51 works from important public and private collections and the photographer’s own studio. The show can be seen in our Fundación MAPFRE Casa Garriga Nogués Exhibition Hall in until September 8.

Berenice Abbott. Portraits of modernity

Berenice Abbott
West Street, 1932
International Center of Photography Purchase, with funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lois and Bruce Zenkel Purchase Fund, 1983 (388.1983)
© Getty Images/Berenice Abbott

Berenice Abbott. Portraits of modernity

Barcelona y Madrid
FEB.20.2019
AUG.25.2019

After a stay at our Barcelona exhibition halls, the Berenice Abbott. Portraits of Modernity exhibition reached Madrid in order to reveal to us this unique artist’s strange gaze. With the cities of New York and Paris taking a starring role as well as her portraits of artists and intellectuals of the 1920s and 1930s, Berenice Abbott offered us her personal vision of an era.

Anthony Hernandez. A confusing gaze

Anthony Hernandez
Discarded #50, 2014
By courtesy of the artist © Anthony Hernandez

Anthony Hernandez. A confusing gaze

Madrid
JAN.31.2019
MAY.12.2019

This exhibition, the first retrospective in Spain of his work, provides an unusually broad range of photographs linked together by their captivating formal beauty and their understated commitment to contemporary social issues. The show, organized by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, has been enjoyed at our Fundación MAPFRE Bárbara de Braganza Exhibition Hall in Madrid until 12 May.

From Chagall to Malevich: Art in Revolution

Kazimir Malévich
Suprematism, 1915-1916
The Regional Art Museum of Kovalenko, Krasnodar INV. КП-10432 Ж-358
© The Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after F.A. Kovalenko, 2018, provided with assistance from the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO

From Chagall to Malevich: Art in Revolution

Madrid
FEB.09.2019
MAY.05.2019

Fundación MAPFRE, together with the Grimaldi Forum Monaco, presented its From Chagall to Malevich: art in Revolution exhibition, in the Recoletos Exhibition Hall in Madrid, which brought together over 90 works and 23 publications from artists who lived through the transformation of a society full of hope and the belief that with the revolution, a new world was being ushered in.