concursos, exposições, curiosidades... sobre arte
escolhidos por MARIA PINTO
(Maria Regina Pinto Pereira)

http://maregina-arte.blogspot.com/

sexta-feira, 2 de dezembro de 2011

Ex Libris, Símbolo de Identidade - Julieta Warman


gravura em relevo | Julieta Warman

coordenação: Julieta Warman

O Ex Libris é uma estampa impressa de pequena dimensão que se adere ao verso da capa de um livro como marca de identidade de uma biblioteca ou coleção particular, para indicar e assinalar ali a propriedade do livro. Nele  figuram, além da palavra Ex Libris, o nome do proprietário ou Instituição, e uma ou diversas imagens, geralmente de caráter alegórico e simbólico, que representam e identificam o o dono.


Ex Libris em latim significa: ‘livro de…’, ‘dentre os livros de…’. O Ex Libris tem se desenvolvido conjuntamente com os livros, intrinsecamente unidos. Mas a partir da metade do século XIX, com o surgimento da imprensa como indústria, em que o livro passa a ser objeto de produção massiva, populariza-se e vai perdendo o valor de objeto, o Ex Libris deixa de funcionar como marca de propriedade dos livros, e passa a ser un objeto de arte de coleção, uma Obra de Arte em Pequenas Dimensões.

Neste curso se dará uma aproximação à história do Ex Libris com uma introdução teórica, para logo mergulhar na confecção de uma peça dedicada a alguém particular, levando em conta as técnicas mais apropriadas para esta obra de Pequena Dimensão. Nesta ocasião, a técnica utilizada para a realização do Ex Libris será de Gravura em Relevo.



dias 8, 12 e 15 de dezembro, das 19h às 22h
10 vagas (mínimo de 5 pessoas)

R$ 200 por pessoa (pagamento adiantado)
Material incluso
Aberto a profissionais e amadores que querem conhecer a técnica e a história do Ex-Libris. Os participantes receberão certificado.

Inscrições pelo email: atelierpira@gmail.com ou pelo telefone 11 2373 0224

Saiba mais sobre Julieta Warman em www.julietawarman.com.ar 





--
Atelier Piratininga

SEND ME A MERMAID - artepostal

SEND ME A MERMAID

When you come back from your holidays at the seaside,
 bring a mermaid along and send it to me.

Whether you saw her, drew her, photographed her, 
imagined her or whether the sea inspired her to you;
 even if somebody told you about her

SEND ME A MERMAID
If you spent your holidays inland then 
let your imagination run and

SEND ME A MERMAID

Size: 10 cm x 15 cm
Deadline: May 1st, 2012
All artworks will be exposed at:
artecorreo2009.blogspot.es

Send your mermaid to:

Carlos Botana
Avda. Gral. Sanjurjo, 62 - 2º
15006 - A Coruña
Spain

ENVOYEZ-MOI UNE SIRÈNE
Si vous avez passé vos vacances sur la côte, 
amenez une sirène avec vous et envoyez-la-moi.

Si vous l'avez vue, dessinée, photographiée,
 imaginée ou si la mer vous
en a inspiré, même si vous l'a raconté

ENVOYEZ-MOI UNE SIRÈNE

Et si vous avez passé vos vacances à la campagne,
 laissez voler vôtre imagination et


ENVOYEZ-MOI UNE SIRÈNE

Grandeur: 10 cm x 15 cm
Envoyer avant le 1 mai 2012
Toutes les travaux seront exposés à
artecorreo2009.blogspot.es

Envoyer votre sirène à:

Carlos Botana
Avda. Gral. Sanjurjo, 62 - 2º
15006 - A Coruña
Spain



Sirena
Todos los artes recibidos 
serán publicados en este blog

a partir del dia 1 de Agosto de 2011
Gracias por anticipado a todos los participantes

International Small Engraving Salon Carbunari 2012


International Small Engraving Salon Carbunari 2012
(The fourteenth edition)



The Rules of the International Small Engraving Salon Carbunari 2012
(The fourteenth edition)
The fourteenth edition of the International Small Engraving Salon is
organized by Mr. Victor Florean, the president of the cultural foundation
of contemporary art "Florean Museum". "Florean Museum" is a
foundation which sustains and finances all forms of contemporary art.
These actions of global culture as definition are not seeking to create or
sustain a certain international movement. They can be defined as an act
of reflection of a creating world. They are those actions which
demonstrate that today's art remains one of the freest mind areas in the
society.
Article 1
The fourteenth edition of the International Small Engraving Salon
Carbunari 2012 is a contest with prizes, and it promotes and sustains the
classic printing techniques of engraving.
The contest is theme free, in order to allow the artists to choose that
specific sector of creation that he or she considers to be most
representative for himself or herself. In order to allow the jury an
objective judgement, each artist will present five works of small
engraving.
The longest side of the engraving will not exceed 17 cm. The
dimension refers to the image.
Serigraphy, photo, drawing, computer-art are not accepted.
On the back of the engravings will be written (legible) in pencil:
• the artist’s name and address;
• the title;
• the technique;
• the dimensions;
• the year.
Each engraving will be signed by the artist on the front side and will
include the classic details: copy, title, signature.
Article 2
The engravings will be sent by mail in proper package. The works,
together with the artists' CV must be sent to the organizers until the 9th of
March 2012 (the postal stamp) at the following address:
MUZEUL FLOREAN
P.O. BOX 1 Of. Postal Of. 9
430510 BAIA MARE
MARAMURES
ROMANIA
The opening of the International Small Engraving Salon 2012 will take
place on the 12th of May 2012, at 12:00 o’clock in the rooms of
FLOREAN MUSEUM
Article 3
The contest has three prizes:
• the first prize in the value of US$ 1,500 (one thousand five
hundred U.S. dollars);
• the second prize in the value of US$ 1,000 (one thousand U.S.
dollars);
• and the third prize consisting in US$ 500 (five hundred U.S.
dollars).
The jury is formed by: PAVEL SUSARA, art critic, president of the jury,
VICTOR FLOREAN, the president of Florean Museum, MIRCEA
BOCHIS, painter, sculptor and engraver, the curator of the International
Small Engraving Salon Carbunari. Also, the winners of the three prizes
of the International Small Engraving Salon Carbunari 2010 are invited to
take part of the jury for this year's edition of the Salon.
The winning artists of each edition of the Salon are always invited to be
members of the jury for the next edition of the International Small
Engraving Salon Carbunari. This practice has become a tradition of the
salons organized by Florean Museum.
The prizes of the winners of the previous edition of the International
Small Engraving Salon (2010) will be handed by Mr. Victor Florean, the
president of Florean Museum, at the vernisage of the fourteenth edition
of the Salon. The awarded artists of the previous edition of the salon will
have a group exhibition in Baia Mare and they are offered a seven days
trip to Baia Mare.
The organizers reserve the right to give other prizes or awards and to
organize personal exhibitions for the selected artists. For further details,
the organizers will contact each artist separately.
Article 4
All the works sent by the artists will be published on Internet, to the site
of FLOREAN MUSEUM: www.cmc.ro. The organizing committee has
chosen to publish the exhibition on Internet so that the access to be
worldwide.
The fourteenth edition of the International Small Engraving Salon will be
on internet for ever. The exhibition can be visited at http://www.cmc.ro.
The organizers reserve the right to edit a compact disc and a catalogue
with the exhibition of the International Small Engraving Salon 2012.
Article 5
The international Small Engraving Salon Carbunari 2012 will be
exposed in the most important centres from Romania and abroad.
The works sent by the artists to the Salon will complete Florean
Museum's collection of contemporary art, which is conceived as an open
workshop for the study of the contemporary engraving in the world.
The basic conception of Florean Museum is the two ways of
communication: from the museum to the artist and from the artist to the
museum.
The works sent by the artists become the property of the Florean
Museum. These works will constitute the base for continuing the artistic
dialogue through organizing group exhibitions according to artistic
affinities. Each exhibition organized will be presented on Internet at the
specified address.
Article 6
The organizers reserve the right to make reproductions of the works in
order to edit the publications of the Salon or in any other purpose.
The artists who participate must accept all the conditions of the Rules of
the International Small Engraving Salon Carbunari 2012. The engravings
send by the artists for the participation at the International Small
Engraving Salon constitutes the acceptance of the conditions stipulated
in the present Rules. For further information, please contact the curator
of the exhibition:
e-mail: mirceabochis@adslexpress.ro
MIRCEA BOCHIS

Curator of the International Small Engraving Salon Carbunari
http://muzeulflorean.mm.ro/florean_museum/index.php

quinta-feira, 1 de dezembro de 2011

TALENTS - FEIRA DE ARTE, CRAFT E DESIGN


Quando
sexta às 11:00 até sábado às 20:00


















  • Onde
    GALERIA L'OEIL ALIANÇA FRANCESA, AVENIDA SANTO AMARO, 3921, BROOKLIN - ao lado do carrefour, São Paulo, Brazil



  • Descrição
    NESTA SEXTA E SÁBADO, DAS 11H00 AS 20H00, VENHA PRESTIGIAR A TALENTS | FEIRA DE ARTE, CRAFT E DESIGN, NA GALERIA L"OEIL | ALIANÇA FRANCESA - UNIDADE BROOKLIN. AVENIDA SANTO AMARO, 3921 SP. REUNINDO MAIS DE 50 ARTISTAS - www.talents2011.org

    Participantes: ANA BACANA - joalheria | ANA PANA - tecidos | ATELIE AZUL DO CÉU – design autoral | COLETIVO 132 |ENIVO, JERRY BATISTA, MARIANA ZUMI | BETA MACEDO - joalheria autoral | BETH LIMA – artes aplicadas e visuais | CAROL LAMAITA – cerâmica | DRIKA PRATES – arte urbana | ESTUDIO MANÚS – design autoral | FERNANDA SPILBORGHS - joalheria | FERNANDO E. AZNAR - fotografia | FRAPPÉ – design autoral | HELOISA ZANAGA – artes visuais | ISABELLE RIBOT – artes visuais | JAIME PRADES – objetos de arte | JULIANA BERTOLINI – moda autoral
    LIDIA LISBOA - colares | LUIZ 83 – arte urbana | IUNI STORE - design autoral | MARIANA FOLTRAN – design autoral | MARZIO FIORINI – design autoral | MOEMA PRADO – bijuterias em vidro | OFICINA VILA MARIA - marchetaria | PAULA DIP – artes visuais | PIEDAD – acessórios têxteis | PIERRE YVES REFALO - fotografia | PRIKY ZUCCOLO – artes visuais | REGINA DE BARROS – artes visuais | REGINA DUTRA - cerâmica | REGINA IZABELA – joalheria | RENATA MEIRELLES – design têxtil | RENATA SANDOVAL – artes visuais | RENATO IZABELA – artes visuais
    ROBERTO SANTANA – artes visuais | SANDRA MARTINELLI – artes visuais | SIMONE GRECCO – artes visuais | TROIS DESIGN – complementos especiais de moda | TROYART- design autoral
    VERA CAFÉ – artes visuais | LUIS CATANI – artes visuais | VIVI CORREA – joalheria
  • Casa Contemporânea - venda especial

    Casa

    A Casa Contemporânea preparou mais uma versão da Venda Especial de Natal com pinturas, fotografias, gravuras, esculturas e desenhos de artistas jovens e com produções significativas. Num ambiente tranquilo de um sobrado da década de 40 você pode apreciar os trabalhos e fazer suas escolhas com atendimento personalizado. Marque seu horário.
    Vendas de Natal

    Rua Capitão Macedo 370 - Vila Mariana – São Paulo - SP / CEP: 04021-020 Telefone: (11) 2337 3015
    © 2011 Casa Contemporânea. All Rights Reserved. Design by Débora Ludwig.

    Caligrafia plástica - ALEX FLEMMING, QUADRUM GALERIA, BH


    Alex Flemming, Quadrum Galeria, Bh - Caligrafia Plástica

    ALEX FLEMMING, QUADRUM GALERIA, BH

    radicado há anos em Berlim, Alex Flemming abre sua individual hoje, na Quadrum Galeria, em Belo Horizonte.

    A novidade é que esta será a primeira vez que Flemming mostra seus trabalhos em papel – ou como ele próprio definiu, seus “exercícios de caligrafia plástica”. São trinta e cinco obras inéditas.

    Se você é fã de artes plásticas (e está na capital mineira), não deixe de prestigiar. Mas, ok, dá para ter um aperitivo via internet. O site de Flemming é um ótimo registro de 32 anos de arte em retrospectiva. Para se perder em cores e traços!

    Em tempo: Inhotim, o centro de arte contemporânea a céu aberto, em Brumadinho, perto de Belô, é programa imperdível em Minas Gerais.

    QUADRUM GALERIA: TEL. (31) 3296-4866. 


    ATÉ 23 DE DEZEMBRO. 


    WWW.ALEXFLEMMING.COM>

    quarta-feira, 30 de novembro de 2011

    Children's toys

    No17. Gyermekjátékok / Children's toys


    Dear Visitor! Our dear Friend!
    Hereby we invite you to participate in the newest round of Arnolfini Archives’ project called Mini[e]MailArt,
    with the subject: Children's toys.

    Your tasks are as follows:
    1 To save the mma17 file into your computer; this file appears in big size (600x600 pixels; 300 dpi) by clicking on this sign: }}}{{{  
    2
     To open it using a graphic program.

    3 To place one or more children's toys on the surface.  
    4 To save changes.  
    5 To send your work (only one) back to Arnolfini Archives by e-mail - mma@arnolfini.hu - till 28th February 2012; in the e-mail please write us your name, country, and – if you have – your blog and/or website address.
    6 To keep watching the arriving works in this blog.

    à deriva

    Top Retratos Fotográficos

    O Top da Zupi voltou! Agora, toda segunda feira, os melhores trabalhos enviados relacionados ao tema escolhido serão publicados no site. O próximo tema do Top da Zupi é nada menos que retratos fotográficos. Se você é profissional ou apenas tem como hobby fotografar, envie seus registros para nós. Sua arte poderá deixar a página mais inspiradora.


    Vale retrato em qualquer tipo de câmera, embaixo d’água e com alterações digitais. Vale homem com homem, mulher com mulher, só não vale queimar seu filme e não mandar logo! Na página da Zupi selecionamos alguns retratos para inspirá-los (http://www.zupi.com.br/index.php/site_zupi/view/top_retratos_fotograficos/#When:16:01:15Z).

    Evan Kafka é o fotógrafo responsável por um ensaio que clica crianças em situações não muito convencionais. Fred Fraser é um fotógrafo comercial que trabalha com, dentre outros ofícios, comunicação corporativa, publicidade e moda. No estudo fotográfico realizado por Samuel Reis, a face do sertanejo é impactante e expressa claramente suas sensações, mostrando o sofrimento e o cansaço de alguém que mora nesse sertão, sempre quente e seco. Pessoas desabrigadas é o tema principal dos retratos de Lee Jeffries. Usando um ventilador superpotente para deformar e contorcer o rosto dos modelos, Jonathan Robert Willis produziu os retratos que dão aqui o ar da graça. Famoso pelo retrato de personalidades, o fotógrafo Arnold Newman registrou grandes mestres através de suas lentes como Picasso, Miró, Roy Lichtenstein e Duchamp (foto). Uma passada no Campeonato Mundial de Barbas e Bigodes do Alasca em 2009 rendeu ao fotógrafo americano Matthew Rainwaters um divertido projeto chamado Beardfolio. O fotógrafo frânces Ulric Colette criou um projeto que deixa evidente as semelhanças genéticas entre membros da mesma família. As fotos retiradas juntam em um só corpo pai e filho, irmãos, mãe e filha e outras combinações.

    Agora só falta o seu. Veja como participar:- Selecione os seus trabalhos preferidos. - Envie-os para imprensa1@zupidesign.com até o dia 05 de dezembro, até às 14h.- Fique de olho no nosso Top de segunda-feira, dia 05 dezembro. Sua arte pode aparecer por lá! Obs: As imagens devem ter, para uma melhor visualização, 680 px de largura. Todos os formatos são aceitos. Junto às imagens, mande seu site ou perfil em plataforma criativa para que possamos divulgá-lo. Valendo!

    Fonte: Revista Zupi 

    Inscrições abertas para a Virada Cultural Paulista 2012


    Estão abertas as inscrições para os grupos e artistas que desejam participar da edição de 2012 da Virada Cultural Paulista. Os interessados devem acessar aqui o formulário relativo à Virada. (http://www.cultura.sp.gov.br/StaticFiles/InscricoesCulturais2012/home.htm).
    A seleção de artistas será realizada pela Unidade de Fomento e Difusão de Produção Cultural da Secretaria. O período de inscrições termina em 06 de janeiro de 2012.
    Fonte: Assessoria de Imprensa SEC – Secretaria de Estado da Cultura – São Paulo

    Livro reúne o trabalho de dez artistas plásticos brasileiros deste século

    Ricardo Sardenberg

    Ricardo Sardenberg, reúne, num volume, a carreira internacional recente dos dez artistas plásticos brasileiros de maior repercussão na primeira década do século XXI 

    Idealizado por Bia e Pedro Corrêa do Lago e desenvolvido por Ricardo Sardenberg, o livro reúne trabalhos de Artur Barrio, Miguel Rio Branco, Waltercio Caldas, Cildo Meireles, Tunga, Beatriz Milhazes, Vik Muniz, Ernesto Neto, Adriana Varejão e Rivane Neuenschwander.

    Todos nomes se destacaram no circuito internacional na última década, com presença regular em exposições individuais e coletivas nos principais museus e galerias do mundo, e participação em mostras de referência, como a Bienal de Veneza e a Documenta de Kassel. Também contaram, para a seleção do livro, a aquisição de obras por coleções e instituições de prestígio, prêmios recebidos, encomenda de obras públicas e a publicação de livros e catálogos fora do Brasil.

    Fonte: Agência O Globo


    Marcello Grassmann - Matéria dos Sonhos - Espaço Cultural Citi

    Brazilian artists will be making their mark at the 10th annual Art Basel Miami Beach



    Brazilian artist, Rosana Ricalde's rendering of a model-scale house is seen on display in Miami, Monday, Nov. 28, 2011. Brazilian artists and collectors are playing a prominent role at this year’s Art Basel and its satellite events. Ricalde among the 19 artists selected by the nonprofit group Un Techo Para mi Pais to design model versions of the transitional housing the nonprofit builds across Latin America for the region’s poor. The pieces will be exhibited and auctioned to raise funds for building more homes. AP Photo/J Pat Carter.


    Obra de uma casa modelo da artista Rosana Ricalde pode ser vista em exposição em Miami. As peças serão expostas e leiloadas para levantar fundos para a construção de mais casas


    By: Laura Wides-Munoz, AP Hispanic Affairs Writer

    MIAMI (AP).- Brazil has been a powerhouse in the art world for more than a decade, and now its booming economy is putting its artists and collectors on the global map.

    Both will be making their mark during the 10th annual Art Basel Miami Beach festival and its satellite events this week.

    The country, the fifth-largest in the world, is part of the growing Latin American presence at the art extravaganza. But it's not just about art. As Brazilians and other Latin Americans fly in for the fair, Miami-area real estate developers are enticing potential customers with special Basel packages. Meanwhile upscale Brazilian design and furnishing companies like Ornare and Artefacto are hosting parties and conferences on architecture and design.

    Regina de Almeida, one of the founders and directors of the Institute of Contemporary Culture in Sao Paulo, and a longtime collector of Brazilian works, says she's seen a rapid internationalization of the country's art, thanks in part to Brazil's booming economy, which grew by 7.5 percent last year.

    In the past, she said, Brazil was something of a cultural island.

    "The new mobility that galleries today have abroad, this didn't use to happen 20 years ago," she said. "It used to be art just for us."

    Miami's Art Basel fair, the offshoot of the annual festival in Basel, Switzerland, and one of America's most prestigious art events, runs Thursday through Sunday and brings together more than 2,000 artists from peer selected galleries around the globe. This year it boasts 26 Latin American galleries, 16 of them Brazilian. Among its featured "Art Positions" section dedicated to new talents, a quarter of the 16 galleries are from Brazil. Other international galleries are also exhibiting work by Brazilian artists, including masters such as the sculptor Tunga.

    The artists on display reflect the diversity of Brazil, which is home to the largest community of individuals of Japanese descent outside of Japan, as well as sizeable communities of Italian and Lebanese-Brazilians.

    Among the artists featured in this year's fair is Rosana Ricalde, whose lyrical yet stylized sea paintings hint of Japanese influence and who turns maps of cities into abstract lattices. Paulo Nazareth's bold photography features images such as an indigenous Guatemalan man holding a sign reading in Spanish: "My Image of Exotic Man for Sale."

    "Brazil has always been on top of the creative world. You have only to look at Carnival. People look at it as a party, but it's an incredible artistic world," said Miami gallery owner Gary Nader, who will showcase more than $5 million worth of Brazilian art at his Wynwood Arts District gallery this week, including Walter Goldfarb and Vik Muniz. He is featuring multiple Brazilian works at his first Latin American modern and contemporary art auction Thursday and plans a show dedicated solely to Brazilian artists in March.

    Outside the art scene, developers hope to capitalize on the new class of Brazilian collectors. In Florida, Brazilians are second only to Canadians in scooping up real estate, making up 8 percent of foreign buyers, mostly in the luxury condos.

    "Those people who like to buy high-end art also like to buy high-end real estate on the ocean," said Mark Pordes, whose company oversees Miami Beach's Canyon Ranch and is planning receptions for potential Brazilian clients. So too is International Sales Group Chairman Philip J. Spiegelman, who is bringing New York designer Karim Rasheed to meet primarily with the Brazilian and other Latin American buyers in town for the fair.

    Meanwhile, the Brazilian firm Ornare, which specializes in luxury wardrobe, bath and kitchen manufacturing, is hosting a week of events, culminating in a conference Friday on the influence of Brazil on the world of design, featuring top Brazilian architects.

    Zize Zink is among them. The Rio de Janeiro architect is attending her first Art Basel, scouting for works for her clients and herself.

    "It's the moment in Brazil," she said, adding that construction in Brazil in advance of the 2016 Olympics is also fueling new interest in design.

    Still others are using the week to remind collectors about the millions in Latin America still living in poverty. The Chilean-based nonprofit Un Techo Para Mi Pais (A Roof for My Country) will auction miniature models of the transitional housing it produces for Latin America's poor designed by some of the region's most popular artists — including one by Brazil's Rosana Ricalde.

    Art lovers tour Gary Nader’s gallery in Miami’s Wynwood Arts District. AP Photo/J Pat Carter.



    O Brasil vêm se destacando cada vez mais no mundo das artes. Na 10ª edição da Art Basel Miami Beach pode-se comprovar muito bem isso. Regina de Almeida, uma das fundadoras do Instituto de Cultura Contemporânea em São Paulo, disse que viu uma rápida internacionalização da arte no país, graças também ao nosso bom momento econômico. "A nova mobilidade que as galerias têm hoje no exterior, não acontecia 20 anos atrás", disse ela. "A arte costumava ser só para o mercado interno".

    A Art Basel Miami é um dos eventos mais prestigiados de arte da América e acontece entre quinta e domingo, reunindo mais de 2.000 artistas de diversas partes do mundo. Este ano, o público pode conferir 26 galerias da América Latina, sendo 16 brasileiras. Além disso, outras galerias internacionais também exibem o trabalho de artistas brasileiros, como o escultor Tunga.

    Os artistas em exposição refletem a diversidade do Brasil, que abriga a maior comunidade de indivíduos descendentes de japoneses fora do Japão, bem como importantes comunidades de italianos e libano-brasileiros.

    Fonte: ArtDaily_

    AP Reporter Juliana Barbassa contributed to this report from Rio de Janeiro.


    Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.

    Reina Sofia Museum - obras de 1962 a 1982

    New rooms with works spanning the years 1962 to 1982 on view at the Reina Sofia Museum


    A photographer takes pictures of the work of art 'The packing of hard potatoes', by Brazilian artist Oyvind Fahlstroem, at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, central Spain, 28 November 2011. This work is one of the 300 works which have been presented by the Reina Sofia Museum's curator Manuel Borja-Villel as part of a new permanent collection of exhibits representatives of 60's and 70's poetry and political art on 28 November. EPA/JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO.

    MADRID.- Opening to the public at the Museo Reina Sofía on Wednesday 30 November are the rooms devoted to the third section of the Museum’s Collection, which covers the period from 1962 to 1982. The Museum’s Collection is articulated around four areas corresponding to the key moments in the history of art, both Spanish and international, in the 20th and 21st centuries. Two of them have already been opened to the public. The first, exhibited on the second floor of the Sabatini Building, takes in the twenties and thirties, when the avant-gardes moved in the direction of greater commitment and antagonism. The second, presented a year ago under the title Is the War Over? Art in a Divided World (1945-1968), surveys the forties, fifties and sixties, and can be visited on the fourth floor.

    Occupying some 2,200 square meters of the two exhibition areas in the Nouvel Building, the third section of the Collection is now presented under the title From Revolt to Postmodernity (1962-1982). In it are about 300 works, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, videos, photographs and documentary material. A substantial part of the work is seen here for the first time, since it includes recent acquisitions, donations and long-term loans that have not been shown before. In this respect, the Museum has made a great effort to fill important gaps in this part of the Collection, adding names essential to an articulation of the period.

    The rooms devoted to this period will house work by artists like Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Hélio Oiticica, Luis Gordillo, Gerhard Richter, Pistoletto, Carl Andre, Hans Haacke, Eugènia Balcells, Eulalia Grau, Mario Merz, Marcel Broodthaers, Donald Judd, Moraza, Molero, Yvonne Rainer, Buren, Jo Spence, Guillermo Pérez Villalta, Carlos Alcolea, Carlos Leon, Esther Ferrer, Concha Jerez, George Brecht, Alberto Corazón, Colita, Nacho Criado and others.

    In the twenty years covered by the newly presented work, world-changing events took place whose decisive factors were the growth of new technologies, the advance of consumerism, the processes of decolonization (materializing in nonconformist attitudes among young people and women) and the beginnings of globalization. Events like May ’68, the economic crisis starting in 1973, the death of Franco, the transition to democracy and the start of globalization on an international scale are just some of the landmarks of this period, one of the most turbulent in the history of the 20th century, in Spain and elsewhere.

    While this part of the Collection begins in the year of the war in Algeria and the Cuban missile crisis, and so belongs to the buildup to May ’68, 1982 marks the end of the political transition in Spain and opens a decade dominated by figures like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, and defined by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. These years are essential for an understanding of the world we live in, and many of the transformations of today’s society have their origins in them.

    The period also brought the definitive paradigm shift with regard to what had been considered art since the Renaissance. This was not only because the traditional division of the medium into painting and sculpture was finally overcome, but also because of the “absence” of the author. It is the turning point between modernity and postmodernity. In modernity the author lay at the centre, whereas it was now his “death” that was proclaimed. Artists also showed dissatisfaction with the isolation of the studio, reacting to a need to go out into the streets and interpellate their public.

    The new paradigm also implies a radical response to an art understood as a western male practice, with the appearance of voices like those of feminism or tropicalism, or of others raised in protest and denunciation of a repressive social and political context, as in the case of the Latin American and Spanish dictatorships. Minimalism, conceptual art, arte povera, and practices in an expanded field (sculpture opening up to landscape, films shown in museums, etc.) are all characteristic of those years.

    A fundamental role is played in the presentation of this part of the Collection by the long-term loans secured by the Museum through various agreements in order to lend coherence to the expository discourse. Special mention should be made of that of Javier Luz, which includes the material by Trama; that of Onnasch, with four works by George Brecht, one by Dieter Roth and another by Daniel Buren; and that of Vijande, which has made it possible to include several pieces by Luis Gordillo.

    Above all, however, we must highlight the importance of the long-term loan of the Sonnabend Collection. Decisive artists of the second half of the 20th century, such as John Baldessari, Donald Judd and Bernd and Hilla Becher, can now be seen as part of the Collection thanks to the agreement subscribed recently between the Museo Reina Sofía and the estate of the celebrated gallerist and collector Ileana Sonnabend (Bucharest, 1914 - New York, 2007). The agreement also makes provision for other works by important artists to visit the rooms of the Museo Reina Sofía in the future.

    The framework for such actions is the Museum’s policy of long-term loans, which allows it to fill the existing gaps in its Collection without costly investments in pieces that can in some cases reach exceedingly high values on the market, so putting them effectively beyond the institution’s reach.

    In the meantime, a number of the Museum’s new acquisitions are presented here for the first time. Among them are works by Hans Haacke, André Cadere, Luciano Fabro, Helio Oiticica, Juan Carlos Romero, Roberto Jacoby, Paz Muro, Concha Jerez, Eugenia Balcells, Raimundo Patiño, Herminio Molero, Nazario, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Angels Ribé, CADA, Colita, Miguel Trillo and Antón Patiño.


    A woman observes the work of art 'Green-Blue', by German artist Gehrard Richter, at the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid, central Spain, 28 November 2011. This work is one of the 300 works which have been presented by the Reina Sofia Museum's curator Manuel Borja-Villel as part of a new permanent collection of exhibits representatives of 60's and 70's poetry and political art on 28 November. EPA/JUAN CARLOS HIDALGO.

    TRANCHE D'ART - Isabelle Ribot


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    Exposição de présepios- Palácio dos Bandeirantes


    A Curadoria do Acervo Artístico-Cultural dos Palácios do Governo convida para uma visita especial à exposição “A tradição do presépio em seus diferentes contextos – A Coleção Franciscana e o Acervo Artístico dos Palácios”, no dia 5 de dezembro de 2011, segunda-feira, das 16h às 18h, no Palácio dos Bandeirantes.

    A visita à exposição, que conta com trinta presépios da coleção Franciscana, provenientes de diferentes países, e com significativas obras da coleção de arte sacra dos Palácios, será conduzida pela Curadora, Ana Cristina Carvalho, e por Frei Róger, Museólogo, Coordenador do Departamento dos Bens Culturais da Igreja São Francisco de Assis - SP.