1 year in Madrid
El Escorial, more than a palace or a monastery, was since the beginning a monument, actually a building built and decorated to commemorate a victory (Saint Quentin), as a filial tribute (from Phillip II to Charles V) and serve as symbol of a family's power (the Habsburgs).
Clotilde García, daughter of the great photographer Antonio García Peris, and wife of the painter Joaquin Sorolla, had all her life the profession of being a muse. In her father's photos as in Sorrolla's drawings and paintings, Clotilide is a main character. In this exhibition-homage she is the star in the Museum that she founded.

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  • Venue and date Museo Sorolla: from 13/march/12 to14/oct/12

Si nuestra indumentaria habla de nosotros, la historia del traje es nuestra historia.

We have now the occasion to compare our taste on contemporary art to the one of Rubell family, thanks to the exhibition at Fundación Santander. And we are lucky for it, as our taste is adapted to our knowledge, and we must admit that in Madrid we have very little chances to see works by artists as influential as John Baldessari, Marlene Dumas, Luc Tuymans or Richard Prince.

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  • Venue and date Fundación Santander (Boadilla): from 11/feb/12 to 17/jun/12
When Picasso created the "Suite Vollard", he knew he was creating a new mythical series in engraving history, comparable to Durer's "Apocalypse", Callot's "Misères", Piranesi's "Carceri" or Goya's "Caprichos". With it he added more glory to his name, and he immortalized definitely Editor Ambroise Vollard.

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  • Venue and date MUICO, Museo de Colecciones ICO: from 29/3/12 to 20/5/12
100 after his death, Odilon Redon is a symbolist beloved by the French as much as Klimt is by the Austrian. Though, he still is an artist to be discovered, as his work is never ending mysterious and deep.
Now we have the opportunity to know him thanks to the Fundación Mapfre exhibition.

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  • Venue and date Fundación Mapfre-Recoletos: from 11/feb/12 to 29/Apr/12

There was a time when great artists invested their imagination in works that would potentially reach thousands of people: they designed posters, book covers, postcards, bank notes, stamps... The Fundación Juan March gathers the main contributions to graphic design of movements such as "Arts & Crafts", Wiener Secession, Futurism, Dada, Constructivism, Bauhaus or "Art Deco".

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  • Venue and date Fundación Juan March, from 30/mar/12 until 1/jul/12
There are many ways to talk about Diaghilev, his insatiable thirst for innovation, his sense of spectacle, his total integration on avant-garde, and his people skills to be with the best to achieve the most beautiful and shaker. The "Diaghilev Ballets Russes" not only were breakers in the dance world, they also influenced all over Europe bringing in their tours all the beauty and delicacy of a new ballet, together with the powerful energy of Nijinski, a force of nature, and the choking aesthetics of avant-garde artists.

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  • Venue and date Caixaforum Madrid, from 17/2/12 to 3/6/12
Sorolla Museum is a never ending treasure chest. Sorolla as a mature painter only produced good art: either big or small size, it was always good. There are so many works in his house-studio in several rows, that just re-ordering them is a guarantee of surprises and joy.

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  • Venue and date Museo Sorolla, 4/oct/11 to 22/feb/12

ARCOmadrid 2012 has lots of proposals in this new edition, all of them suiting in times like these: fight the uncertainty in markets and the lesser participation of institutions with an important international attendance (including the invitation to worldwide collectors) and interesting new proposal for art lovers, like a fundraising lunch.

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  • Venue and date Ifema Madrid, 15-19/feb/2012
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