Exhibitions 2019
Different visions of the world from the beginning of the 20th century. Photography fills our exhibition halls
7 exhibitions in 2019
Eamonn Doyle
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
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.
Eugène Boudin
Nuages blancs, ciel bleu [White clouds, blue sky], c. 1859
Musée Eugène Boudin, Honfleur
© H. Brauner
Touching color. The renewal of pastel
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.