20th-Century Masterpieces
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This gallery of modern art features work by some of the 20th Century's most outstanding artists, including Picasso - Guernica has its own special space - Dalí, Tàpies, Chillida, Miró, Gris, Bacon, Le Cobursier, Lipchitz, Schnabel, Numan, and Roberto Matta. There is a library, research center, bookshop, café, souvenir shop, and restaurant.
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David Maljkovic: Out of ProjectionSep 9th, 2009 to Jan 18th, 2010
10:00AM
David Maljkovic is one of the most important figures in Croatias contemporary art scene. His work focuses on collective memory and amnesia, portraying the transition from communism to capitalism in recent Croatian history. Mixing videos, drawings and objects, his installations redirect our gaze towards abandoned buildings and obsolete or already demolished architectures. While monuments embody the promise for a better future, they also speak to melancholy for a contradictory reality, reflected in these buildings current state. As a result the artist constructs a visual discourse on the consequences of failed utopias.
Joëlle Tuerlinckx. Crystal times. Reflexión sin sol / Proyecciones sin objeto
Oct 9th, 2009 to Feb 22nd, 2010
10:00AM
Artist Joëlle Tuerlinckx (Brussels, 1958) presents her first individual exhibition in Spain. Conceived specifically for the Palacio de Cristal in Madrids Parque del Retiro, the installation recreates and subtly maximizes the exceptional lighting conditions of this nineteenth-century pavilion. A trio of light beams literally and metaphorically creates a luminous module that gives life to this space. Tuerlinckx will complement this work, created especially for the occasion, with archive materials and a grouping of sculptures to be exhibited in the Sabatini Buildinga space that also reacts to changes in light, but with very different symbolic and physical circumstances from those at the Palacio de Cristal.
Francesco Lo Savio
Oct 14th, 2009 to Jan 11th, 2010
10:00AM
The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía presents the work of Francesco Lo Savio (Rome, 1935 Marseilles, 1963), an artist whose short life and career were nevertheless highly prolific and influential. In merely five years, Lo Savio had the opportunity to traverse different artistic tendencies and even create a new language that, without realizing it at the time, would become a premonition for movements only fully developed at the end of the 1960s.
Rodchenko and Popova. Defining Constructivism
Oct 21st, 2009 to Jan 11th, 2010
10:00AM
One of the years most important exhibitions brings together works by two influential figures in defining the aesthetics and theories of Russian Constructivism: Lyubov Popova (1889 - 1924) and Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891 1956). Organized by the Tate Modern of London in collaboration with the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and curated by Margarita Tupitsyn, the exhibition offers an extensive overview of an artistic movement that changed the face of Russian art.
Francis Alÿs: Fabiola
Oct 28th, 2009 to Feb 21st, 2010
10:00AM
Beginning October 28, the Santo Domingo de Silos Monastery will host an exhibition dedicated to Belgian artist Francis Alÿ s (Antwerp, 1959). The exhibition Fabiola, organized by the Museo Reina Sofía, is comprised of some three hundred works belonging to the artists collection. This exhibition could be seen last year at the Dia Art Foundation of New York and has been shown recently at the National Portrait Gallery in London, making its next stop at Silos. The exhibitions point of departure is found in a work whose whereabouts are currently unknown: Fabiola in a Red Veil by French painter JeanJacques Henner (1829-1905), which represents the figure of St. Fabiola who lived in Rome around the fourth century. Over the years, Francis Alÿs has amassed numerous works by different artists who have depicted the Christian saint using highly diverse materials. With his collection, Alÿs aims at lending creative legitimacy to anonymous objects, an inherent characteristic in the artists own production and research on collecting.
The Pamplona Encounters 1972: The End of the Party for Experimental Art
Oct 28th, 2009 to Feb 22nd, 2010
10:00AM
This exhibition draws from the Pamplona Encounters in 1972, Spains most internationally renowned avant-garde festival, as a point of departure for revisiting experimental art from the period. The event represented the culmination of experimental artistic practices from the 1960s, at once their height and a turning point that flagged the decline of these tendencies. At the time, the term experimental alluded to works that called into question the material limits of their chosen media, whether poetry, cinema, music, painting or sculpture. But above all, the event constituted an unprecedented staging of contradictions in avant-garde movements, particularly among the official avant-garde (Abstract and Concrete Expressionism, Social Realism, Pop art, etc.) and those we could designate iteralists, orin a less precise, broader termConceptual movements.
Georges Vantongerloo. Aspiring to Infinity
Nov 4th, 2009 to Feb 25th, 2010
10:00AM
Despite Vantongerloos regard as one of the most important artists and thinkers in the twentieth century, few exhibitions to date have been dedicated to him. Curated by Guy Brett, the Museums exhibition on this artist aims at exploring the fundamentals of his oeuvre, in which his re-conceptualization of space in painting and sculpture influenced artistic tendencies in early twentieth-century abstract art. The exhibition also focuses on the final period of his work after World War II, in which the artist, through a succession of radical leaps, arrived at an original and intuitive visual encapsulation of the Universes energy.
Tangled Alphabets: León Ferrari y Mira Schendel
Nov 25th, 2009 to Mar 1st, 2010
10:00AM
Se trata de la primera gran retrospectiva de ambos autores que se celebra en España. La exposición hará coincidir a dos figuras significativas del arte latinoamericano de la segunda mitad del siglo XX: el argentino León Ferrari y la suiza Mira Schendel, cuyas trayectorias artísticas se unieron en Brasil. La muestra proviene del Museo de Arte Moderno de Nueva York, e incluirá aproximadamente 160 obras que nunca han sido expuestas en su totalidad y que abarcan dibujos, esculturas y pinturas realizadas en Argentina y Brasil desde comienzos de los años sesenta hasta los noventa. Las obras funcionan como metáfora de la existencia humana mediante la elocuencia de nombrar y escribir.
Francisco López
Jan 12th, 2010 to Mar 29th, 2010
10:00AM
Francisco López (Madrid, 1964) presents the sound installation Untitled 0609, a project created specifically for one of the Museums most unusual spaces and its particular acoustic effects: the metal interior corridor located on the top floor of the Nouvel Building. In this area, barely lit for the exhibition, the artist will install a sound system for visitors to experience the 8-minute piece. The installation creates a virtual sonic atmosphere with extreme contrasts; in order to do so, López draws from the metallic surfaces of the corridors floor, walls and ceiling, as well as the spaces peculiar measurements.
Reviews
Best of Madrid
This museum seems like a love it or hate it deal. What's not to love about original Dali and Pic...
Reviewed by:David from on Jul 19 2008
Spectacular building and collection
Without question one of the most impressive...
Reviewed by:frank from on May 31 2008
The history of the modern art
It s a excellent colection of works by Picasso,Dali,Miro etc.There is a must to visit for every man ...
Reviewed by:ivan from on Jan 26 2008
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