Exhibition in Madrid. Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Exhibition Hall

From 31/05/2018 to 02/09/2018

After passing through Barcelona, the BRASSAÏ exhibition, an in-house production featuring the work of this great Hungarian photographer, a key figure in the history of 20^th century photography, is now coming to Madrid. The show traces his career with over 200 exhibits (period photographs, drawings, a sculpture and documentary material) and can be enjoyed in our Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Exhbition Hall until 2 September 2018.

Brassaï's work, already famous by the start of the 1950s, has come to be recognized as one of the cornerstones of the birth and evolution of a new trend in photography which emerged between the two world wars, transcending its purely documentary nature and restoring the concept of photography as a creative medium.

This is the first retrospective of the work of this great master organized since the year 2000 (Centre Pompidou) and the first to take place in Spain since 1993. The exhibition has been made possible thanks to loans from some of the leading European and American institutions and private collections: Estate Brassaï Succession (Paris), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Museum of Fine Arts (Houston), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, ISelf Collection (London), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Nicholas and Susan Pritzker, David Dechman and Michel Mercure.

Brassaï is a Fundación MAPFRE production.

Come out, enjoy and share! #expo_brassai

Exhibition in Madrid. Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Exhibition Hall

From 19/03/2018 to 08/07/2018

From 19 March, at its Recoletos Exhibition Hall, Fundación MAPFRE is showing the exhibition Tribute to Miró. Women in the drawings of the Fundación MAPFRE Collections. After many years of putting on temporary shows, Fundación MAPFRE opened the Espacio Miró at the end of 2016 as a permanent collection . This space has given us the chance to reflect and delve deeper into the work of the brilliant Catalan artist and to find recurring motifs in his work that open up a dialogue with other works of art. For this tribute to the figure of Joan Miró, we have chosen a subject that takes center stage in his work and is also a central topic in our collections of drawings: women.

Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Exhibition Hall

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.

Sign up for Miró Tuesdays! Every Tuesday there will be specialists available to give you an innovative insight into the exhibition.
Fifteen minutes exclusively devoted to you. From 11:30 to 13:30 and from 16:30 to 18:30 hours. We look forward to welcoming you!

*From 22 March, part of the content of Espacio Miró will go to Malta for a traveling exhibition. This being the case, the availability of works by Miró and Calder will be maintained on Floor 0 of the Fundación MAPFRE Recoletos Exhibition Hall, while on the -1 level there will be a temporary exhibition of works from our collections on paper, through the show Tribute to Miró. Women in the Fundación MAPFRE collections.