EXHIBITIONS - RUSSIA!
Place and dates: Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao
From 28th March to 3rd September 2006
Organisers: Valerie Hillings, Evgenia Petrova, Lidia Iovleva and Zelfira Tregulova
Content: the exhibition covers 800 years of Russian history through its art. It ranges from 13th century religious painting and medieval icons to the most recent trends, as seen by a 100 artists in about 315 works. Many of these have never travelled outside Russia before.
It also includes selected works by western artists (such as Van Dyck, Rubens, Murillo, Monet, Gauguin and Picasso) from the imperial collections of Peter the Great, Catherine the Great and Nicholas I in the 18th and 19th centuries, and from the collections of two Moscow businessmen (Sergei Shchukin and Ivan Morozov) in the early 20th century. These works are evidence of the audacity of Russian collectors, of the influence of these collections on art in that country and of its close ties with the rest of Europe.
- 20TH-CENTURY SPANISH ART IN THE BBVA COLLECTION
Place and dates:
· Madrid. The Marqués de Salamanca Palace
From 19th April to 4th June 2006
· Valencia. IVAM (Valencia’s institute of modern art)
From 22nd June to 27th August 2006.
· Oviedo. Campoamor Theatre and BBVA Galleries
From 13th September to 29th October 2006
· La Coruña. Quiosco Alfonso
From 16th November to 7th January 2007
· Seville. Santa Inés Convent
From 18th January to 27th February / 6th March 2007
Organisers: Prof Francisco Calvo Serraller, chair of art history at the Complutense University, Madrid, member of the Fine Arts Academy, ex-curator of the Prado Museum and El Pais art critic.
Contents: this is the last in the cycle of monographic exhibitions aimed at giving the public access to the masterpieces in the Bank's collection. The exhibition is a historic itinerary that gives the visitor a basic idea of the best works in Spanish art in 20th century. What the exhibits have in common is that the artists are all represented in the BBVA collection.
- JOAN MIRO 1960-1980
Place and dates: The Joan Miró Foundation, Barcelona
From 23rd November 2006 to 4th/11th February 2007
Organisers: Rosa María Malet
Contents: there have been many Miró exhibitions since his centenary in 1993 and since, in 2004, the Pompidou Centre in Paris organised an extensive exhibition covering the 1916-1936 period. However, few exhibitions have provided an in-depth analysis of his later works.
This situation, which is almost certainly a grave error, was probably due to curiosity regarding the switch in style, from figurative to symbols, in the 1920s and media’s interest in the 1940-1941 constellations.
This exhibition presents a panorama of his last 20 creative years, characterised by switches between a lyrical, poetic language and one that was more violent and aggressive. It takes the form of some 80 works –largely unknown– from museums and private international collectors located mainly in Europe. It is a summary of his life's work in which the vacuum and the sign, space and abhorrence of the vacuum, black and white, and colour, play leading roles.
- 19TH AUDIOVISUAL EXHIBITION
Place and dates: Bilbao (San Nicolás)
From 25th September to 8th October 2006
Organiser: the Fine Arts Faculty of the Basque University,
Content: an exhibition organised by the university’s audiovisual department. The goal is to share experience and extend horizons through knowledge of emerging themes around the world. It also aims to create a forum on the integration of art, technology and urban spaces.
RESTORATION OF ARTISTIC HERITAGE
This programme is carried out in conjunction with various civil and religious institutions. BBVA’s aim is to contribute to the recovery and conservation of highly significant items of Spanish heritage. It focuses on historic buildings and other items that were of fundamental importance in the development of art and that possess an important symbolic value in the local environment. All restoration projects are accompanied by a publication that discusses the artistic qualities and provides technical details of the work. - RESTORATION OF THE MAIN RETABLE OF THE CARIDAD CHURCH (SEVILLE)
Collaborators: Order of the Santa Caridad and Seville
Department of culture of the Andalucía regional government
Date: 1st quarter of 2007
The main retable of San Jorge Church is one of the outstanding works of wooden architecture from the Baroque period in Andalucia and Spain. The founder of the hospice was a Seville aristocrat, Miguel de Mañara. He was the order’s patron and he gave instructions that the retable was to display the seventh labour of compassion, namely, to bury the dead. This had been the first vocation of the charitable order when it was set up in the Middle Ages.
The relief of Christ’s burial, beautifully coloured, enhances the overall impact of the remarkable composition.
The structural arrangement was entrusted to Bernardo Simón de Pineda. He started in 1670 and finished it in 1674. The religious images were the work of Pedro Roldán and the gilding and painting were handled by Juan Valdés Leal.
- RESTORATION OF THE GOYA TAPESTRIES IN SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA CATHEDRAL
Content: restoration of 12 tapestries from designs by Goya and remodelling of Room V of the cathedral gallery, where they are displayed.
Carlos III ordered these tapestries to adorn the royal and princely rooms at the Pardo Palace. They were woven at the St Barbara royal tapestry workshop in Madrid between 1776 and 1780 and are part of a limited production. Only two or three copies were made of each of Goya’s tapestry cartoons, introducing variations in the original drawings.
Like other important collections, they came to Santiago by way of a legacy of the deacon, Pedro de Acuña y Malvar, who died in Madrid in 1814. He had acquired them through his duties as secretary of state and legal affairs to Carlos IV from 1788 to 1808.
Date: June 2006
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