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Marcel Jean
Surrealist Wardrobe, 1941
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
© Marcel Jean
Photo: © París, Les Arts Décoratifs/Jean Tholance
FEB.06.2025 – MAY.11.2025, MAD
1924. Other Surrealisms
On 15 October 1924, André Breton published the ‘First Manifesto of Surrealism’. One hundred years later, 1924. Other analyzes the reception and influence in Spain of that text and the Surrealist movement as a whole. The exhibition highlights that, despite its peripheral location in relation to the centres of the European artistic avant-garde, Spain not only contributed to the movement with some of its most representative figures (Dalí, Buñuel, Domínguez…), but also with many important yet lesser-known artists. The exhibition also addresses how Surrealism was reinterpreted in various Latin American countries, as well as the contribution of women to the movement.
Sakiko Nomura
Naked Time_025
© Sakiko Nomura. Courtesy of Akio Nagasawa Gallery
FEB.06.2025 – MAY.11.2025, MAD
Sakiko Nomura
Tender is the night
Best known for her photographs of male nudes, which have represented a defiant break with some of the taboos and traditional stereotypes of Japanese culture, Sakiko Nomura (1967) is one of the most outstanding photographers of her generation. In this, her first major retrospective, the nudes, in which the erotic tension is wrapped in an atmosphere of tenderness and a certain mystery, coexist alongside various other images (animals, natural landscapes, empty streets and roads, forests, plants and flowers, fireworks…) to ultimately form a series of interrupted narratives that evoke cinematic fictions.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Naples, Italy, 1960
© Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson / Magnum Photos
OCT.11.2024 – JAN.26.2025, BCN
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Watch! Watch! Watch!
Born in 1908 and died in 2004, Cartier-Bresson was a witness of the 20th century, of which he ended up becoming probably the best-known photographic chronicler. In 1947, he founded, together with Robert Capa, the Magnum agency, which distributed his photographs all over the world. His interest was always in capturing with his camera what he called “the decisive instant”, a conception of photography that he was able to translate into images as surprising as they were moving, many of which have become icons of the last century.
This exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Bucerius Kunstforum in Hamburg, offers a broad and profound approach to his work as a whole.
Malu Reigal
Pan, pijo y habas, 2021-in progress
© Malu Reigal
OCT.11.2024 – JAN.26.2025, BCN
KBr Flama’24
KBr Fundación MAPFRE presents the fourth edition of its annual event showcasing emerging creators and the new generation of photographers who are embarking on their professional careers after completing their studies in Barcelona. This year’s exhibition will feature the projects of laura aranda lavado (Granollers, 1994), Estefania Bedmar (Cerdanyola del Vallès, 1989), Malu Reigal (Murcia, 1992), and Alain Rojas Pastor (Esplugues de Llobregat, 1987), selected by a jury formed on this occasion by Carles Guerra, Silvia Omedes and Arianna Rinaldo.
International Social Projects
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