Exposiciones temporales actuales

Os traigo una nueva tanda de exposiciones temporales. En esta ocasión, algunas de las correspondientes a los meses de verano. Si tenéis planeado algún viaje a Europa o a Estados Unidos, y os gusta el arte, aquí tenéis algunas sugerencias que pueden ser de vuestro interés. Yo, sin duda, si tuviera la oportunidad, me pasaría por Madrid para ver las interesantísimas exposiciones sobre William Blake, Piranesi y Rafael. También me encantaría ver la dedicada a Eugène Isabey en el Louvre, y la de Turner, Monet y Twombly en la Tate Liverpool. 
CaixaForum (Madrid)William Blake (1757-1827). Visiones en el arte británico
3 de julio - 21 de octubre de 2012
William Blake (1757-1827) es una de las figuras más importantes en la historia de la cultura británica. A lo largo de toda su carrera mantuvo que el arte era imaginativo y profético y que no debía ser constreñido por ningún dogma académico, social o religioso. Es considerado un artista integral, ya que fue poeta, pintor, impresor e ilustrador, además de mostrar un marcado compromiso con los problemas sociales de su época. La exposición que presenta más de ochenta obras procedentes de la Tate Britain de Londres, pondrá especial énfasis, a través de una magnífica selección de obras de Blake, en los temas más significativos de este arte visionario: mitologías propias, fantasías y delirios sobre una particular visión del mundo respecto a temas religiosos, políticos y sociales, la cual será complementada con obras de reconocidos artistas británicos en donde se podrá entender la influencia que ejerció Blake tanto en sus sucesores más inmediatos como en los simbolistas victorianos, y más recientemente en los artistas románticos del siglo pasado.
CaixaForum (Madrid)
Las artes de Piranesi
24 de abril - 9 de septiembre de 2012
Giovanni-Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) fue uno de los dibujantes más importantes del siglo XVIII. La técnica, la intensidad y el poder evocador de su obra han tenido influencia posterior en artistas románticos, surrealistas y cubistas. Sus grabados de cárceles venecianas inspiran, todavía hoy, decorados cinematográficos. La exposición propone al público un recorrido por la trayectoria de Piranesi a través de más de 300 grabados originales del artista, que junto con una representación complementaria de fotografías, figuras y audiovisuales permitirán acercar la obra de este maestro italiano al gran público. La muestra cuenta con reproducciones reales, en diversos materiales, de mobiliario y piezas de adorno romanos de su serie Antichità Romane, un intenso audiovisual que dota de inquietante profundidad y dimensiones a sus Cárceles de la Imaginación y fotografías contemporáneas de G. Basilico para su colección de grabados de Vistas de Roma. Unas comparaciones que permitirán al público descubrir la tridimensionalidad, la perspectiva y el detalle de los grabados de Piranesi.
Museo del Prado (Madrid)El último Rafael
12 de junio - 16 de septiembre de 2012
El último Rafael es una de las exposiciones más importantes dedicadas al artista y su taller, y la primera centrada en sus años finales, etapa de su producción que le convirtió en el pintor más influyente del arte occidental. La muestra expone setenta y cuatro obras en total, de las cuales la mayoría no se han mostrado nunca antes en España tranzando un recorrido cronológico por la actividad del maestro, desde el inicio del pontificado de León X (1513) hasta su muerte en 1520, y de la de sus principales discípulos, Giulio Romano y Gianfrancesco Penni, hasta finales de 1524. Esta exposición busca delimitar mejor las fronteras entre las obras ejecutadas por Rafael y las realizadas con la participación de sus principales ayudantes, Giulio Romano (h. 1499 – 1546) y Gianfrancesco Penni (h. 1496 – 1528).La muestra empieza en 1513, cuando Rafael ya llevaba trabajando en Roma cinco años decorando las monumentales estancias vaticanas en paralelo a otros importantes artistas italianos, como Miguel Ángel (su principal rival que trabajaba entonces en la Capilla Sixtina) y Sebastiano del Piombo, primero bajo el pontificado del Papa Julio II y después del Papa León X.
Museo Thyssen (Madrid)Hopper12 de junio - 16 de septiembre de 2012
A pesar de su gran popularidad y aparente facilidad, las obras de Hopper son uno de los fenómenos más complejos del arte del siglo XX, así lo consideran los dos comisarios de la muestra, Tomàs Llorens (Director honorario del Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza) y Difier Ottinger (Director adjunto del MNAM/Centre Pompidou). Para mostrarlo, la exposición estará organizada en dos partes: una primera mitad que recorrerá la formación del artista, aproximadamente de 1900 a 1924 y representada por un gran cantidad de bocetos, pinturas, dibujos, ilustraciones, grabados y acuarelas que dialogan puntualmente con obras de artistas como Winslow Homer, Robert Henri, John Sloan, Edgar Degas o Walter Sickert; y una segunda parte, a partir de 1925, que presentará su producción madura y que buscará ilustrar su carrera de la forma más completa y amplia posible. Para ello, esta sección combinará grupos temáticos -los motivos y temas más recurrentes en su trabajo- con una narrativa organizada cronológicamente.
Guggenheim (Bilbao)David Hockney: una visión más amplia
15 de mayo - 30 de septiembre de 2012
David Hockney: una visión más amplia presenta un conjunto de obras recientes realizadas por el destacado artista británico e inspiradas en el paisaje del este de Yorkshire. Aproximadamente doscientos cuadros, la mayoría de ellos de formato ambicioso y realizados en los últimos seis años, se expondrán junto con una cuidada selección de piezas de entre 1956 y 2000, que evidencian la continua exploración y fascinación de Hockney por el paisaje. En las nueve pinturas de El bosque de Woldgate, las cuatro grandes pinturas Tres árboles cerca de Thixendale, cada una de ellas compuesta, a su vez, por ocho paneles, o en las series tituladas Tala de invierno y El espino en flor, Hockney celebra el paisaje de Yorkshire, un escenario familiar en su juventud y que retoma en 1997 para presentar una inagotable exploración de las escenas a través de las estaciones. La libertad de pintar al aire libre y el uso de la técnica del óleo resultan tangibles en este trabajo, aunque sigue siendo evidente que Hockney continúa usando la cámara como medio y como herramienta, por lo que la muestra también incluirá nuevas películas realizadas con 9 y 18 cámaras digitales. Las obras de la exposición revelarán la deuda de Hockney con el pasado, que el artista conoce en profundidad e investiga, así como su fascinación insaciable por las nuevas tecnologías y técnicas visuales.
Louvre (París)
Eugène Isabey (1803-1886)
5 de julio - 17 de septiembre de 2012
Cette exposition consacrée à Eugène Isabey présente l'exploration inédite des paysages normands et bretons par un artiste dont la palette et la virtuosité font regarder autrement le spectacle de la nature. La réputation d’Eugène Isabey (1803-1886) n’a guère connu d’éclipse : l’abondance de son oeuvre a assuré sa postérité sans besoin d’un procès en réhabilitation. Fils de Jean-Baptiste Isabey (1767-1855), le plus célèbre des miniaturistes de l’Empire, Eugène sut imposer avec fougue son prénom : à la précision et à la suave délicatesse de l’un, l’autre répondit par la richesse de sa palette et la générosité de sa touche. En dramaturge romantique, Eugène Isabey orchestra d’emblée d’immenses scènes de naufrage. Ouvert aux innovations d’outre-Manche, il sut pareillement renouveler l’art du paysage lithographié, révélant une Auvergne tourmentée qui n’avait rien à envier à l’Écosse de Walter Scott. Isabey emprunta aussi le goût des costumes historiques à la littérature de son temps. Ses évocations chatoyantes de la cour d’Elisabeth ou des derniers Valois lui assurèrent une clientèle avide de retrouver ainsi transfigurés les fastes du Second Empire.
Musée d'Orsay (París)
Misia, reine de Paris
12 de junio - 9 de septiembre de 2012
Misia Godebska (1872-1950) est une figure de légende de la vie artistique française de la Belle Epoque aux Années folles. Elle commence à se faire connaître par son talent de pianiste. Son mariage en 1893 avec Thadée Natanson, le directeur de La Revue blanche, la propulse au centre d'un groupe de créateurs défendant un art symboliste et décoratif. Au sommet de son influence, elle devient l'une des femmes les plus portraiturées de son temps, posant pour Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir. Amie de Diaghilev, Nijinsky, Stravinski, Cocteau, Chanel, elle finance les Ballets russes pendant plus d'une décennie. Cette exposition pluridisciplinaire se propose de réunir des portraits de Misia et de son entourage ainsi que des oeuvres, des documents et des témoignages d'artistes contemporains.
The Wallace Collection (Londres)The Noble Art of the Sword: Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe17 de mayo - 16 de septiembre de 2012
The Noble Art of the Sword: Fashion and Fencing in Renaissance Europe comprises exquisite and deadly weapons and other works of art from the Wallace Collection, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Armouries, and British private collections, brought together with stunning princely weapons and costume from some of the greatest continental collections, exhibited in Britain for the first time. The very best sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century swords will be seen alongside beautifully illustrated fencing manuals from the Howard de Walden Library, on long-term loan to the Wallace Collection, while portraits, design books and documents will help place the Renaissance rapier in its social and artistic context to tell us more about the men who owned and used it.
Tate Modern (Londres)Damien Hirst4 de abril - 9 de septiembre de 2012
Damien Hirst first came to public attention in London in 1988 when he conceived and curated Freeze, an exhibition in a disused warehouse which showed his work and that of his friends and fellow students at Goldsmiths College. In the nearly quarter of a century since that pivotal show, Hirst has become one of the most influential artists of his generation. This is the first substantial survey of his work in a British institution and brings together key works from over twenty years. The exhibition includes iconic sculptures from his Natural History series, including The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living 1991, in which he suspended a shark in formaldehyde. Also included are vitrines such as A Thousand Years from 1990, medicine cabinets, pill cabinets and instrument cabinets in addition to seminal paintings made throughout his career using butterflies and flies as well as spots and spins. The two-part installation In and Out of Love, not shown in its entirety since its creation in 1991 and Pharmacy 1992 are among the highlights of the exhibition.
Tate Modern (Londres)Edvard Munch: The Modern Eye28 de junio - 14 de octubre de 2012
Few other modern artists are better known and yet less understood than Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863–1944). This exhibition examines the artist’s work from the 20th century, including sixty paintings, many from the Munch Museum in Oslo, with a rare showing of his work in film and photography. Munch is often seen as a 19th-century Symbolist painter but this exhibition shows how he engaged with modernity and was inspired by the everyday life outside of his studio such as street scenes and incidents reported in the media – including The House is Burning 1925–7, a sensational view of a real life event with people fleeing the scene of a burning building. The show also examines how Munch often repeated a single motif over a long period of time in order to re-work it, as can be seen in the different versions of his most celebrated works, such as The Sick Child 1885–1927 and Girls on the Bridge 1902–27.
Tate LiverpoolTurner, Monet, Twombly22 de junio - 28 de octubre de 2012
This ambitious exhibition brings together works by J.M.W. Turner (1775–1851), Claude Monet (1840–1926) and Cy Twombly (1928–2011), three of the most prolific and well-known artists of all time. Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings explores the similarities between these artists in style, subject and artistic motivation during the last 20–30 years of their lives. Turner Monet Twombly: Later Paintings will feature iconic works such as Monet’s fabulous Water Lilies and Turner’s much loved Romantic landscapes. The exhibition will also include a major work from Twombly’s vibrant and well-received series, Blooming: A Scattering of Blossoms and Other Things, shown in the UK for the first time.
National Gallery of Scotland (Edimburgo)Edvard Munch: Graphic works from the Gundersen collection7 de abril - 23 de septiembre de 2012
Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is renowned for his preoccupation with universal emotions such as isolation, melancholy, anxiety and love. His graphic works are amongst his most arresting and poignant, and are celebrated world-wide for their technical mastery and visual intensity. The core of this exhibition features an outstanding group of fifty works on paper by Munch held in a private Norwegian collection, and will be the first time they have been shown in the UK. Featuring rare, hand-coloured versions of iconic images such as The Scream, Anxiety and Madonna, the exhibition explores Munch’s rigorous experimentation as he revisited subjects to heighten their emotive impact.
National Gallery of Scotland (Edimburgo)Van Gogh to Kandinsky: Symbolist Landscape in Europe 1880-191014 de julio - 14 de octubre de 2012
This will be the first ever exhibition dedicated to Symbolist landscape painting. Symbolism emerged in Europe after Impressionism as artists developed a more imaginative, emotional response to the world around them – a route which took them from Naturalism to the edges of Abstraction. The exhibition will present a wide range of poetic and suggestive paintings of nature from about 1880-1910. It will focus on major artists of the avant-garde such as Paul Gauguin, Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch but will also introduce you to a group of less well known artists from Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe.
National Gallery of Scotland (Edimburgo)Picasso & Modern British Art4 de agosto - 4 de noviembre de 2012
The first exhibition to explore Pablo Picasso’s lifelong connections with Britain is the highlight of the summer season at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in 2012. Picasso & Modern British Art examines Picasso’s evolving critical reputation here and British artists’ responses to his work. Originating at Tate Britain, this pioneering show marks the first time that the two organisations have collaborated on a major exhibition. The exhibition comprises over 150 works from major public and private collections around the world, including over 60 works by Picasso. Highlights include masterpieces from all periods of his career, such as his great 1925 painting, The Three Dancers, which the Tate acquired from the artist following his 1960 exhibition,and major cubist paintings from the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Royal Academy (Londres)From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism7 de julio - 23 de septiembre de 2012
The exhibition includes masterpieces by Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Degas, Sisley and Morisot, as well as an exceptional group of more than twenty paintings by Renoir. The collection also embraces important works by pre-Impressionist artists such as Corot, Théodore Rousseau and J-F. Millet, as well as examples of highly polished ‘academic’ paintings by Gérôme, Alma-Tadema and Bouguereau. The 70 works in the exhibition are presented by genre, in order to reveal the range of subject matter and diversity of stylistic approach in French 19th-century art. The groups of works include: landscapes and cityscapes; marine views; genre paintings depicting scenes of everyday life; nudes; still lifes; portraits - including self portraits of artists central to the exhibition such as Renoir and Degas, and paintings reflecting the contemporary interest in Orientalism.
National Gallery (Londres)Metamorphosis. Titian 2012
11 de julio - 23 de septiembre de 2012
Metamorphosis featuring new work by contemporary artists Chris Ofili, Conrad Shawcross and Mark Wallinger in a unique collaboration with The Royal Ballet. This multi-arts project, part of the Cultural Olympiad's London 2012 Festival, draws on the powerful stories of change found in Titian’s masterpieces, revealing how these spectacular paintings continue to inspire living artists. A multi-faceted experience celebrating British creativity across the arts, ‘Metamorphosis: Titian 2012’ brings together a group of specially commissioned works responding to three of Titian’s paintings – Diana and Actaeon, The Death of Actaeon and the recently acquired Diana and Callisto – which depict stories from Ovid’s epic poem ‘Metamorphoses’. The three paintings, displayed at the heart of the exhibition, are seen together for the first time since the 18th century.
Dulwich Picture GalleryNicolas Poussin's first series of the seven sacraments
29 de junio - 31 de agosto de 2012
Dulwich Picture Gallery is thrilled to be displaying three of the first series of the Seven Sacraments by Nicholas Poussin (1594–1665): Confirmation, Eucharist, Marriage and Extreme Unction. Housing one of the UK’s finest collections of Poussin’s work, Dulwich Picture Gallery is a most fitting venue in which to see these exquisite masterpieces of religious painting. Painted between 1637 and 1642, the first series of the Sacraments was commissioned by Poussin’s friend and patron Cassiano dal Pozzo. As a set, Poussin’s Sacraments represent a high point in Western European art. 
Metropolitan (Nueva York)
Dürer and Beyond. Central European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1400–1700
3 de abril - 3 de septiembre de 2012
This exhibition is the first to offer an extensive overview of the Museum's holdings of early Central European drawings, many of which were acquired in the last two decades. An emphasis on works by later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century artists is balanced by a selection of German drawings from the fifteenth and earlier sixteenth century, of which some of the most exceptional ones—including works by Albrecht Dürer—entered the Museum with The Robert Lehman Collection in 1975.
Metropolitan (Nueva York)Bellini, Titian, and Lotto. North Italian Paintings from the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo15 de mayo - 3 de septiembre de 2012
The Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, is a jewel among Italian museums and a haven for art lovers. Founded at the end of the eighteenth century by Count Giacomo Carrara and housed in a beautiful Neoclassical building, it contains a range of masterpieces dating from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. At its core is a group of outstanding pictures from the Renaissance. Because of closure for restoration, it has been possible for the museum to lend to The Metropolitan Museum of Art fifteen masterpieces by Venetian and north Italian painters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, including works by Bellini, Titian, and Lorenzo Lotto.
Pinakothek der Moderne (Múnich)Marcel Duchamp. Le Mystère de Munich22 de junio - 30 de septiembre de 2012
The artist Marcel Duchamp arrived in Munich on 21 June 1912 and lived in Barer Straße 65 for three months. Summer 2012 will mark the 100th anniversary of his stay in Munich. In this context the Architekturmuseum der TU München is showing a sculpture curated by Rudolf Herz on the south lawn in front of the Alte Pinakothek, the immediate vicinity of Duchamp's place of residence. Herz, concept artist and media researcher, is recreating Duchamp's Munich flat in a reinforced concrete sculpture on a scale of 1:1, tilted by 90 degrees. He closes in on Duchamp's stay as if conducting a 'criminal investigation', relying on sources unknown so far. 'My stay in Munich was the scene of my complete liberation', Marcel Duchamp explained. A radical upheaval becomes apparent in the artist's work of that time, leading from traditional oil painting via kinetic glass paintings to his ready-mades, with which he revolutionized the art of the 20th century. Thus, any details on his stay in Munich are of utmost importance.
Pinakothek der Moderne (Múnich)Le Corbusier. Le poème de l'angle droit21 de junio - 2 de septiembre de 2012In the course of seven years, from 1947 to 1953, Le Corbusier produced a succession of lithographs and poems that can be regarded as an artistic realization of his view of life. The works have been arranged in such a way that seven rows one upon the other result in a picture wall, an 'iconostasis'. Each row is dedicated to a specific topic, ranging from the environment via mental and physical elements to the right angle, with which the human being establishes his own order. In the exhibition all the accompanying works and studies - paintings, water colours, drawings, texts and publications - along with the Poème itself will be shown and explained for the first time. According to his own words, Le Corbusier realized his architecture on the basis of his artistic work, thus the cycle also reveals the architectural achievements of the greatest architect of the 20th century.