Travelling exhibitions

OCT.21.2019 – FEB.09.2020

Centre Cultural Terrassa, Barcelona

The Disasters of War. Prints. The Peninsular War.

The violence witnessed by Francisco de Goya during The Peninsular War (1808-1814) led the artist to take up drawing, sketching and prints once again. This type of work, of a private nature, is an effective way for him to express the pain and anguish he feels in the face of the events of war and their effect on the civilian population. Although he never published them during his lifetime, we have access to a complete bound edition which he gave to his friend Ceán Bermúdez before he left for Bordeaux in 1824. The handwritten title of this album reads as follows: “Fatal consequences of Spain’s bloody war with Bonaparte, and other emphatic caprices, in 85 prints. Invented, drawn and printed by the original painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes. In Madrid”. The exact chronological timeline of the execution of the series is unknown, but it is usually dated from between 1810, the date which appears on three of the prints and 1815.

The Disasters of War are comprised of 80 titled plates and several etchings with some in drypoint and gouache, printed in black ink. The set of prints are divided into three groups: the first two groups contain the “disasters of war” themselves, while the third, the “emphatic caprices”, of a more allegorical nature, are understood to be a political reflection on the absolutist government of Ferdinand VII following the end of the war and the withdrawal of the French troops.

OCT.14.2019 – JAN.31.2020

Jeu de Paume, París

Closeness. Connection. Exchange.

Hujar was a portrait photographer. This photographer sought to convey the exchange between the artist and the sitter in his pictures by establishing a direct relationship that would allow him to delve into the true nature of the person he wished to immortalize. His portraits reflect an atmosphere of intimacy with the sitter due to his calm and intimate method of taking photographs.

He was inextricably linked to New York City both personally and professionally. He played a part in the counter-cultural movements of the 1970s and depicted the social and cultural atmosphere of the city. Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag and William S. Burroughs were some of the personalities in the underground scene that Hujar photographed.

Featuring over 150 works, this exhibition takes us on a journey through his professional career and adheres to this artist’s particular preference for systematically choosing to present his photographs in energetic, surprising and sometimes disconcerting juxtapositions.

OCT.11.2019 – DIC.13.2019

Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme, Palmas de Gran Canaria

Everyday life, quality, mastery.

The cutting-edge drawings of the Catalan artists Joan Junyer and Joan Sandalinas, which belong to our collections, have landed in Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme in the Canary Islands.

Sandalinas and Junyer share more than just a name, an era and a birthplace. They both belong to a group of artists who, despite their high-quality, skilled work, and for varying reasons, are continually passed over and then revisited by the critics. Both artists are fundamental to our understanding of the move towards modernity of the Spanish artists during the 1920s and 1930s.

This exhibition presents us with daily scenes, ordinary people, fishermen from Barceloneta, Telefónica workers and peasant farmers from Mallorca, along with other topics favored by these two painters. With many locations in common, Junyer and Sandalinas also display major differences. Sandalinas surprises us with a very personal assimilation of the most revolutionary European trends, while Junyer focused on ballet stages, a subject which interested him towards the end of the 1930s.

The exhibition which has now docked in the Canary Islands rediscovers the drawings of both artists who form part of our collection of works on paper.

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.