As part of the Women’s Views Biennial  2016, galería  SENDA  has organized a talk focused on  life and work of Spanish artist Ángeles Santos Torroellla.

The  WVB-2016 it is an event that brings together different initiatives to show the creative activity of women and their large demonstrations in a national and international way. It’s taking place from March to December 2016, the Women’s Views Biennial will bring together initiatives that make women and gender issues a source for reflection, debate and creation.

Ángeles Santos Torroella is a painter  that  deserves an special place in the Spanish surrealist painting, born in Portbou in 1911, moves at sixteen years old to Valladolid where she takes painting classes and two years later created, whats it’s going to be  his first major work, Un Mundo,  large format oil that caused a sensation among the intellectual media of the time, particularly considering that the artist was a young woman living in the provinces, too far from the capital’s cultural scene to have come across any of the advances of the new art movements.  Currently this work is exposed as a permanent work in the National Museum Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. In 1929 she has his first solo show at the Ateneo of Valladolid , since that she begins a long artistic career full of  ups and downs that ends after his dead in 2013.

Talk:  Life and work

 

Speakers:

 Anna Capella, art historian, curator of expositions , ex director of  the Museo del Empordà and  current director of   Museo of Mataró, author of the book  Ángeles Santos, Between life and painting (2011).

 Cristina Massanes, Journalist and writer , was curator of the exposition  (Re)visions del món. 100 anys d’Ángeles Santos Torroella (2011).

 

 Rosa Brugat, Visual art,  Author of the  video art Buenas noches, Inspired  in the paint, El mundo de Mª Santos Torroella, the video will be displayed after the talk.

 

Date: 7 julio 2016

Time:  19 hrs

Regarding this year’s topic of DOCfield>16 “Europe: Lost in translation”, Galeria SENDA has organised a series of conversations with interesting characters in the context of the work “Europa” by Jordi Bernadó.

In this project, Bernadó starts a journey through 27 cities, portraying landscapes and perspectives of the continent to create the book “Europa”. The following conversations are inspired in those images:

 

First talk: “Europe has not always existed”
Tuesday May 24^th, 2016. 19h.
Galeria Senda

Juanjo Lahuerta: He’s an Architect and professor of Art History and Architecture in the School of Architecture of Barcelona. He has been a member of the Collegio Docenti della Scuola Dottorati del Istituto Universitario di Architettura IUAV of Venice and has had the title of the Kina Juan Carlos I Chair of Spanish Culture and Civilization in New York University. He’s currently the Chief of Collection of MNAC.

 

Second talk: “Europe and its ghosts”
Monday June 13^th, 2016. 19h.
Galeria Senda

Valentín Roma: He holds a PhD in Philosophy and a BAS in Art History. He was the Head Curator of MACBA until 2015. In 2009, he won the contest to curate the first Catalonian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. He’s currently the Director of La Virreina Centre de la Imatge.

 

Third talk: “Europe in the labyrinth”
Monday June 27^th, 2016. 19h.
Galeria Senda

Juan Corona: He holds a PhD in Economic Sciences; he’s a professor in Applied Economics and a permanent member of the Royal Academy of Doctors. Author of a vas work in economics and enterprises matters, he has also been an advisor for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and several programmes of the European Union.

 

 

Call for a Renaissance gathers a selection of 24 artworks from Gao Zingjian’s private collection, all of them ink on canvas, big and medium format and from 1998 to 2013. Gao Xingjian’s paintings are born from a personal cultural fusion between East and West. His painting is characterized by the dominant use of materials of Chinese tradition –rice paper, ink and Chinese brushes– but the technique is uniquely modern. From his studies of modern West art, Gao has always appreciated the importance of the physical act of paint, the inquiry in pictorial matter and specially the autonomy in pictorial language.

 

More information in Sala Kubo Kutxa

Call for a Renaissance will be at Sala Kubo – Kutxa from October 16th to January 3rd 2016.

Jordi Bernadó takes part in the photo show: Le Parfum dans tous les Sens at the Jardins du Palais Royal in Paris, curated by Gabriel Bauret, from May 28th to June 14th.

Watch This! Revelations in Media Art presents pioneering and contemporary artworks that trace the evolution of a continuously emerging medium. The exhibition celebrates artists who are engaged in a creative revolution and explores the pervasive interdependence between technology and contemporary culture. The exhibition includes 44 objects from 1941 to 2013, which were acquired by the museum as part of its longstanding commitment to collecting and exhibiting media art.

Watch This! includes major works by artists Cory Arcangel, Hans Breder, Takeshi Murata, Bruce Nauman, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, Nam June Paik, Martha Rosler, Eve Sussman, Bill Viola and others that highlight the breadth of media art, including 16 mm films, computer-driven cinema, closed-circuit installations, digital animation, video games and more.

Big Paintings is a focused look at some of the artist’s most monumental paintings spanning his career from the 1980s to the present day. Since developing his iconic style in the early 1980s, Halley has worked at the forefront of a group of artists reinvigorating American abstraction with a critical lens focused on contemporary culture. Organized by the Museum’s assistant curator Benjamin Colman, this exhibition of nine monumental paintings highlights the evolution of Halley’s bold style and the sophistication of his ideas.