Vacations with art
Cultural plans in Spain
Cultural leisure allows us to travel through art to past epochs and countless geographical enclaves. From Setdart, we have prepared a selection of some of the most interesting exhibitions offered by the cultural agenda of this summer in Spain.
- “Suzanne Valadon. A modern epic.” at MNAC, Barcelona (until September 1, 2024).
From the collaboration between the MNAC and the Centre Pompidou-Metz comes the first retrospective in Spain of the artist Suzanne Valadon, emblematic figure of the Montmartre bohemia of the early twentieth century. Alongside the more than 100 works that make up the exhibition, one can explore interesting documentary material, which provides a much more complete vision of the fundamental role that the artist played in the Paris of the avant-garde, while highlighting the multiple interactions that occurred between the artists of the time and the social conquest of the status of artist by a woman.
2. ‘Yoshitomo Nara’ at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao (until November 3, 2024).
The figures, as childlike and childlike as they are enigmatic and threatening, of Yoshitomo Nara, one of the most influential artists on the international art scene today, land at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. It is a complete journey through his career, in which the influence of the solitude of his childhood and of music in the construction of his creative universe can be observed.
3. ‘Chillida in Menorca’ at the Hauser & Wirth Museum of Menorca (until October 27th, 2024)
Coinciding with the centenary of Eduardo Chillida’s birth, Hauser & Wirth Menorca presents this solo exhibition, in which we can discover the artist’s intense connection with the island of Menorca. Inspired by the unique nature that the island offered him, Chillida gave birth to a compendium of sculptures, drawings and collages that, as can be seen in each of the works that make up this exhibition, are a resounding tribute to the organic and elemental forces that govern our own existence.
4. “Art and social transformations in Spain (1885 – 1910)” at the Prado Museum, Madrid (until September 22, 2024).
This exhibition gathers more than 300 works and brings us closer to the multiple interpretations that national artists made of the great social transformations that took place in Spain between 1885 and 1910. Great artists such as Rusiñol, Casas, Sorolla, Regoyos, Nonell, Picasso or Solana, took on the challenge of representing aspects that until then had hardly been addressed, such as industrial work, education, illness and medicine, prostitution, poverty, colonialism, strikes, anarchism or workers’ demands. Whether from a naturalistic or more expressionist style, thanks to this exhibition tour, we enter fully into the emergence of the so-called social painting.
5. “Spirit of Japan” at Nomad Museo Inmersivo in Madrid (until October 27, 2024)
After visiting cities such as Tokyo, Sao Paulo or Milan, “Spirit of Japan” arrives for the first time in Spain, with a multi-sensory experience that immerses us fully in Japanese culture through Ukiyo-e. This genre that has left an indelible mark on world art, influencing impressionist and avant-garde artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin or Pierre Bonnard, is now rediscovered and reworked with the latest technology to transport us to the environment of beauty and mystery of traditional Japan.
Maria Blanchard: Painter in spite of Cubism” at the Picasso Museum in Malaga (until September 29, 2024).
Defying the gender roles imposed also in the art world, Maria Blanchard was the first cubist painter in Spain. Now, the Picasso Museum of Malaga vindicates, through an extensive monographic tour, the work of this artist, whose work has not been properly valued. Thus, resituating her figure in the space that corresponds to her, as one of the most decisive artists of the Spanish avant-garde.
