Vampiros, el mundo de las sombras / Vampires, The World of Shadows

The National Museum of Art contains a panorama of Mexican art from the 16th to the 20th centuries. 225 selected pieces from the collection of paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, documents, and popular art are contained in the practical guide with information on the artists, themes, stylistic movements and critical thoughts over the 5 centuries that are represented. A section of brief biographies of the artists make this a very useful guide. Some of the artists include: Cristóbal de Villalpando, Mugel Cabrera, José María Velasco, Saturnino Herrán, Diego Rivera, José...

Nacido en la India en 1954 y afincado en Londres, Anish Kapoor se ha convertido en uno de los artistas más emblemáticos del panorama atístico actual y en un claro representante del multiculturalismo que inaugura el siglo XXI. Su obra, en la que se funden vocabularios visuales y códigos culturales de diversos tiempos y lugares, no entiende de fronteras y busca los puntos de unión y las coincidencias en las divergencias y en los límites: lo colonizado y lo colonizador, el Este y el Oeste, lo ancestral y lo moderno, la naturaleza y la cultura, lo sagrado y lo secular...todo ello amalgamado ...

Born in 1912, in a small town in Wyoming, Jackson Pollock embodied the American dream as the country found itself confronted with the realities of a modern era replacing the fading nineteenth century. Pollock left home in search of fame and fortune in New York City. Thanks to the Federal Art Project he quickly won acclaim, and after the Second World War became the biggest art celebrity in America. For De Kooning, Pollock was the “icebreaker”. For Max Ernst and Masson, Pollock was a fellow member of the European Surrealist movement. And for Motherwell, Pollock was a legitimate candidate...

The Joan Miro Foundation presents "Her Memory," an exhibition by Kiki Smith organised in collaboration with the Museum Haus Esters in Krefeld and the Kunsthalle Nrnberg, containing recent work by this US artist. It could in fact be called an exhibition in progress, since it has been amplified in each venue anterior to the exhibition presented in the Foundation, which is the last location of this tour. Kiki Smith was born in Nrnberg in 1954 to an artistic family: her mother an opera singer and her father Minimalist artist Tony Smith. Her work is characterised by a constant reflection on human...