The power of women, as revered as they were feared throughout history; an intimate portrait of the filmmaker Luis García Berlanga that promises to reveal unknown stories about both his work and his life; the relationships between art and nature or the landing of the largest dinosaur known to have come from Patagonia… Under the motto We grow in culture, the La Caixa Foundation begins its new season of exhibitions with 34 exhibitions that will travel around the world. network of CaixaForum centers and the CosmoCaixa Science Museum. Many of them have already been seen and will move around the different venues in the coming months, while ten will do so as absolute premieres. As always, the programming aims to reach the widest possible audience – it hopes to close the year with 4.5 million visitors – and does so with the help of important international museums such as the British Museum, the Center Pompidou, the Cinémathèque Française or the Prado Museum.
From surrealism to the present day, many artists have been attracted to the forms of nature, whose motifs have inspired authentic masterpieces by Dalí, Kandinsky, Miró, Le Corbusier or Paul Klee. The Art and Nature exhibition. A century of bioformism reviews this relationship through eighty pieces from the Center Pompidou (painting, photography, film and design) to rethink our current links with living beings. The exhibition, from September 28 to January 14, also includes works by contemporary creators (Jeremy Deller, Neri Oxman, Pamela Rosenkranz…) that warn about the new threats that loom over the planet. Afterwards it can be seen in Madrid and Zaragoza.
James Bond, Edward Snowden, Mata Hari, Hedy Lamarr… are some of the protagonists of Top secret. Cinema and espionage, an exhibition that delves into the fruitful relationship between both worlds through 270 pieces. in collaboration with the French Cinematheque and which explores the connection between both worlds. Currently in Madrid, where it will remain until October 22, the show co-organized with La Cinémathèque Française will arrive in Barcelona on March 17.
Goddesses, saints, demons, witches, rebels, motherly… Revered and feared. Feminine power in art and beliefs is the title of an ambitious exhibition that reviews the role of women and the different perceptions of the feminine throughout 5,000 years of history. The exhibition (from October 2 to January 12 in Madrid and from February 20 in Barcelona) reflects on the stereotypes of female power and femininity based on iconic pieces from the British Museum, to which it contrasts voices made by women such as Marina Abramovic, Ana Mendieta or Niki de Saint Phalle. After Barcelona, ??the exhibition will travel to Seville.
The way in which the artistic landscape has determined our perception of nature and our capacity for emotion in the face of natural phenomena is the starting point of Horizonte y limit. Visions of the landscape, one of the exhibitions that was part of the inaugural program of the CaixaForum València, will pass through Madrid in the first quarter of the year and will arrive in Barcelona (from April 29 to September 8) in an expanded version. The works are part of the Contemporary Art Collection of the La Caixa Foundation and their authors include names such as Tacita Dean, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Andreas Gursky, Dionis Escorsa, Joan Fontcuberta, Joan Hernández Pijoan, Miquel Barceló, Patricia Dauder or Xavier Ribas.
A brilliant director and screenwriter, Luis García Berlanga (Valencia, 1921-Madrid, 2010) was also one of the best chroniclers of Spain’s recent past. The author of films such as Welcome, Mister Marshall!, Plácido, The Executioner or The National Shotgun, has seduced several generations of viewers thanks to a look that is simultaneously humorous, acidic and tender, making him one of the greats of cinema. Spanish. Interior Berlanga (from July 16 to November 3) makes him the protagonist of an exhibition conceived as a sequence shot with which we want to make known unpublished aspects of both his work and his life. Its premiere will take place in March in Valencia and, among others, it will bring to light the 72 boxes that the filmmaker left as a legacy.
The La Caixa Foundation reopens its collection to emerging voices so that they offer new readings of its collection. On this occasion, the chosen curators are Caterina Almirall, who will show the network of complicities and mutual influences between 19 women artists (The Tree of What You Still Don’t Know, from October 24 to February 11); Mei Huang, who will explore the current situation of borders and the conflicts they generate (from March 7 to June 24) and the couple formed by Mariona Moncunill and ferranElOtro, who propose a new experience of seeing art through the data that the works generate (La dama de la lámpara, from July 23 to November 17).
It is called the Patagothian mayorum and it is the largest dinosaur discovered so far. An impressive 30-meter-long replica will be installed at CosmoCaixa (from October 25 to June 2) as part of the Dinosaurs of Patagonia exhibition. You won’t be alone. Along with the immense animal that lived 100 million years ago, visitors will be able to discover twelve different species, including the only carnivorous dinosaur, from the Argentine region, one of the richest in dinosaur fossils. The exhibition has been conceived and produced with the Egidio Feruglio Paleontological Museum.
The Science Museum, which will inaugurate a new exploration space for the little ones (4 to 11 years old), will also delve into the relationship between music and mathematics (A sound journey from chaos to the cosmos, from June 2 to January 19).
