THE GROTESQUE FACTOR

This 5th and last of the main upcoming exhibitions (Richard Prince, MeMyselfandI, The Modern European Poster and Picasso of Malaga) of the Picasso Museum Malaga for 2012 is called THE GROTESQUE FACTOR.

"Le Fou", 1930 by Man Ray


This exposition will bring works together of an era in the past that basically started in the early days in Greece and was at its top at the endings of last Century.

Engraving from Francisco de Goya


From the 23rd of October till the 9th of February 2013 more than forty artists, like Francisco de Goya, Francis Bacon, Man Ray, Pablo Picasso, Gustav Doré, Leonardo da Vinci and Meret Oppenheim, for example, will be presented at the exposition, showing their look upon the developments of the grotesque, figurative and artistic concern in the critical perspective of understanding the world on itself.

Painting of Francis Bacon


Containing books, paintings, photographs, films, engravings, documents and sculptures, artists from all over Europe will explain in this exhibition the satire, the incongruity, the surprise, the exaggeration and the monstrous and macabre reality of the world.

Meret Oppenheim


The base for The Grotesque Factor is to be found in the philosophical and literary definitions and theories of artists and scientists like Wolfgang Kayser or Mijáilovich Batjin (Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н).

Portrait of Mijail Batjín

Most of the shown works come from private collections and museums from all over the world.

PICASSO OF MALAGA

FROM 25TH OF JUNE TILL THE 30TH OF SEPTEMBER 2012

PICASSO MUSEUM MALAGA

The exposition “Picasso of Malaga” describes with paintings, from Picasso but also from other artists of the Malaga art scene by that time, the periods Pablo Ruiz Picasso has been staying in the capital of the Costa del Sol, where he was born in 1881, on the 25th of October.

At the age of 10 he left Malaga with his parents to move to North Spain, Galicia, namely La Coruña, where his father was an art teacher. Four years later he moved to Barcelona, to end up in 1904 in Paris.

Since the first day he left Malaga he has been coming back there several times, for the last time in 1901. This must definitely have had impact on his work and that is exactly what this exhibition will try to relate, since Picasso never denied his andalusian origin.

With the selection of the works and paintings Picasso Museum Malaga wants to try to reconstruct the shape, the surface and features of Malaga by that time, with paintings of objects and personages of Picasso’s childhood.



Apart from paintings the exposition will also show documents and objects related to the 19th Centuries society and daily life in an Andalusian city by that time, with Picasso and his family put central in this context.

THE MODERN EUROPEAN POSTER

EXHIBITION PICASSO MUSEUM - MALAGA - SPAIN

From the 18th of June till the 16th of September 2012 Picasso Museum Malaga will bring a tribute to the Modern European Poster, a selection chosen from the most important and exclusive collections in the world.

Man Ray - "Women With Long Hair"

At the European Modern Poster Exhibition the work of some 100 artists will be shown and the idea is to chart the tremendous artistic, ‘advertising’ becoming art and technical evolution, like more modern printing possibilities, of the poster during the 20th Century.

V. Lebedev


The exhibition in the Picasso Museum Malaga contains 3 meaningful and suggestive eras of the illustrious years of watchers. A first part will concentrate on the more Avant-garde side of the art of posters, basically inspired upon the Bauhaus movement, Surrealism and Futurism. Work of artists like Rodchenko, Man Ray and Vladimir Lebedev will be present.

H. Cartier-Bresson - "View from Notre-Dame"

A second part welcomes contemporary artists like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Jules Chéret with the more non artistic and aesthetic side of the poster. Definitely Cartier-Bresson is well known for his city-life posters, especially Barcelona and Paris. Both cities are also omnipresent in Pablo Picasso’s life and work.

Jean Carlu - "To All Europe"


The third and last section will focus in the period between the 1st and the 2nd World War, sometimes seen as the most productive period, The Golden Age. Jean Carlu, Bauberger, Colin, Cassandre and Bayer are one of the most significant artists of this era.

A.M. CASSANDRE


FROM THE 18TH OF JUNE TILL THE 16TH OF SEPTEMBER 2012

“THE MODERN EUROPEAN POSTER”

André Wilquin


PICASSO MUSEUM MALAGA
Palacio de Buenavista
Calle San Agustín, 8
29015 MALAGA
SPAIN

Telf.: (++34) 952 12 76 00
Fax. : (++34) 952 12 76 07
Email: info@museopicassomalaga.org
Website: www.museopicassomalaga.org

dEUS EN ESPAÑA FEBRERO 2012

Para todos aquellos amantes del grupo belga dEUS, que hayan pedido a los reyes la posibilidad de verlo en directo en España, estan de enhora buena ya que tendrán la oportunidad de asistir a un concierto en el entrante año 2012 , ya en apenas 37 días ; concrentamente han cerrado ya actuaciones en :

-Madrid el 5 de febrero, en la sala Joy Eslava

-Bilbao 7 de febrero tocarán en el Kafe Antzokia

- Barcelona 8 de febrero en la sala Bikini

También nuestros vecinos de Portugal podrán disfrutar de sus actuaciones en Oporto el día 3 y al día siguiente en Lisboa

Presentarán su nuevo disco, Keep You Close, que salió a la venta en Europa el pasado 19 de Septiembre.

Podrán adquirir las entradas a través de Ticketmaster .

En la web oficial de la banda pueden encontrar más información.

El cantaor Miguel Poveda

Miguel Poveda (Badalona, Barcelona, 1973).

En 1993 se le concedió el premio "Lampara Minera", a partir de ahí su carrera emprende una trayectoria ascendente. Actúa en la película "La Teta y la Luna" de Bigas Luna, graba su primer disco "Viento del Este" y participa en diferentes festivales nacionales e internacionales como en Logroño, Taranto de Madrid, Bienal de Arte Flamenco de Sevilla, Fiesta de la Música en París, Festival de Flamenco de Amberes, Lincoln Center en Nueva York dentro de Flamenco Festival USA, y participa en Flamenco Festival London...

Hoy, es un maestro precoz, en el que se mezcla la gloria flamenca de los grandes mitos pasados y el futuro de un género que ha depositado en él gran parte de sus ansias de renovación, sin perder en ella sus esencias mejores.

Ha grabado, hasta hoy, ocho discos. El último de ellos, Coplas del querer, un CD doble galardonado con varios premios de la música y llegando a ser disco de platino

Acaba de actuar en Sevilla en el Teatro de la Maestranza, para el cuál tres horas después de la puesta a la venta de sus entradas, esta fueron agotadas, en los 3 días que actuaba; en total, han sido 5.400 asistentes los que disfrutaron de la entrega y el buen hacer del cantaor.

Para poder disfrutar nosotros de él, en nuestros alrededores, tendremos que esperar hasta el verano que viene, según la información que tenemos a día de hoy que tenga contratado:

4 DE AGOSTO – RECITAL FLAMENCO – XXXVIII CASTILLO DEL CANTE – OJÉN (MÁLAGA)

Proximos conciertos:

12 ene 2012 L'Auditori de Barcelona

29 mar 2012 Palau de la Música (Barcelona)

- ME MYSELF AND I - IN PICASSO MUSEUM MALAGA

What could be a good reason to mix people like Robert Capa, Man Ray, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn or Richard Avedon in an exhibition? Where’s the relation with Pablo Picasso?

Picasso by Robert Capa



From the 5th of March till the 10th of June 2012 Picasso Museum Malaga offers a ‘foto-biography’ exhibition in which some 40 pictures from the contemporary artists (photographers) as named before will be shown. The philosophy of the exhibition, a “collective portrait”, is to go over the history of photography, which definitely had its high-lights in the 20th century, like Picasso, in relation with the influence of Picasso‘s work.

MeMyselfanI was shown in Cologne, Germany since last September (2011) and will travel to the Museum Für Kunst Und Gewerbe in Hamburg, after the Malaga show. The whole exposition MeMyselfandI, Photo Portraits of Picasso forms part of the “Picasso 20 Looks” programme. The collection of pictures on itself is a thoroughly compilation of portraits of Picasso created by undeniable contemporary artists like Penn, Avedon, Man Ray, Cartier Bresson, etc.



ROBERT CAPA

Born in Hungary in 1913 (+1954), this action photojournalist is most famous for the war photo documentaries he made. He did the World Wars, the Spanish Civil War and the Arab Israeli War of 1948 inter alia.



MAN RAY

Avant-garde photographer, Modernist and big influence in the Surrealism and Dadaism, born in Pennsylvania USA, in 1890 (+1976) but spent most of his artistic carreer in Paris, France. By some people in the world of art sometimes called one of the 25 most important and influential artists of the twentieth century.

HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

Considered the godfather of Photojournalism born in Chanteloup en Brie, France, in 1908 (+2004), this French photographer was a master in candid photography and cultivator of the real life reportages and street photography.

IRVING PENN

Work of Irving Penn

Basically a fashion (he worked for Vogue magazine for years) and portrait photographer, but also made paintings. American artist born in 1917 (+2009) and definitely the founder of Minimal photography by putting objects just in front of a decorative and simple background like a white or black wall.

RICHARD AVEDON

Born in New York in 1923 (+2004) to a Russian Jewish family, this photographer was considered to be the biggest in defining in his work the image of the United States of America in culture, beauty and style in the second half of last century.

RICHARD PRINCE IN PICASSO MUSEUM

On the 27th of February 2012 (till 27th of May 2012) the Picasso Museum of Malaga will open its doors for a show of the famous contemporary artist Richard Prince. His paintings, collages and pictures will be shown for the first time, a world wide premiere, and the American artist was invited to the Picasso Museum because Richard Prince comes very close to Pablo Picasso’s breathtaking art of eclectic and quiet radical themes, like erotism, desire and sexuality in general.

"Untitled Cowboy"


Richard Prince was born in Panama in 1949 but moved to New York, where he would live and work for 25 years. He made big fame for being the first artist, photographer, selling a photo collage, titled “Untitled Cowboy”, for over 1 million dollar at Christie’s New York in 2005. He started in 1975 and since then he has been for most of the times the centre of polemic, discussion and confusion. Result is that Richard Prince is one of the most followed artists these days in national and international press and definitely inside the contemporary arte scene, as well as among collectors as among galleries and museums.

Another legendary move of this outstanding artist is a photo collage of 1977 made of some pictures he found in the New York Times, where he apart from the usual fuzz he creates with his art work, was the middle of discussions of where drawing the line in the Author’s rights issue.




In 1983 again he ‘moved’ the art world, and American conservatism not for the least, when he created his work “Spiritual America” where a picture of the famous American actress Brooke Shield, 10 years at the time of the picture, was mixed with a picture of the author Garry Gross. On the picture Brooke Shields stands quiet erotically in a bath tub and the artists wanted to elude sexual precocity referring to Alfred Stieglitz’ homonymous picture. Brooke Shields’ mother was definitely not amused with the idea and brought the artist to court accusing him of ‘voyeurism’.


Brooke Shields in "Spiritual America"

Also his “Jokes” series, started in the year 1986, did not miss the hype. In these series he definitely causes the spectator to feel alienated making fun of the American middle class sexual fantasies and frustrations on the most burlesque way.

Anyway, with this very unique exhibition of Richard Prince, the Picasso Museum of Malaga is following the line and philosophy of Pablo Picasso’s face-to-face interpretation of contemporary art. It can absolutely be classified in the category of Martin Kippenberger Meets Pablo Picasso and the Figurative Works of the also outstanding and innovating contemporary artist Bill Viola exhibitions the Picasso Museum has been showing over the last years.

Museum Picasso Malaga
Palacio de Buenavista
Calle San Agustín, 8
29015 MALAGA
SPAIN

Telf.: (++34) 952 12 76 00
Fax. : (++34) 952 12 76 07
Email: info@museopicassomalaga.org
Website: www.museopicassomalaga.org

EnFrente Arte en Canal Sur

El domingo 4 de diciembre salió Hotel EnFrente Arte en el programa Diez Razones de la cadena andaluza, Canal Sur. Ese programa trata de proponer al espectador diez motivos por qué visitar un pueblo andaluz. El domingo le tocó Ronda. Junto con, entre otros, la Plaza de Toros, las famosas Yemas, el Puente Nuevo, el Palacio Mondragón, el Museo del Bandolero o la Bodega Sangre de Ronda, EnFrente Arte fue presentado como buen motivo para visitar Ronda.

Si se perdió la emisión, pinche en el siguiente enlace:

http://www.canalsuralacarta.es/television/video/ronda--malaga/11216/13

Página web del hotel: www.enfrentearte.com


Hotel EnFrente Arte
Calle Real 40
29400 - Ronda (Málaga)
España

Email: reservations@enfrentearte.com
Telf.: (++34) 952 87 90 88

BBVA LEAGUE 2011-2012 : MALAGA - REAL MADRID

Tomorrow, Saturday 22nd of October, at 20:00 Málaga C.F. will receive at La Rosaleda, Real Madrid for their game of Day 9 of the Spanish BBVA League.

Despite the enlisting of Ruud Van NisteIrooy (ex-Real Madrid), Demichelis, Joaquin, Cazorla and Julio Baptista (ex-Real Madrid),the players of Málaga haven’t reached the objectives so far. The boys of Manuel Pellegrini, and also ex-Real Madrid, will have to try to keep some points in Málaga if they don’t wan’t to drop down too much in the classification of the BBVA League, losing their aspiration of the Champion’s or Europe League.

On the other side Real Madrid will realize that it could be a difficult displacement to the Capital of the Costa del Sol, and Mourinho, Ronaldo, Benzema and company will also have to go for the victory uniquely if they don’t want to get too much behind to F.C. Barcelona, who will play their game the same day at 22:00 at the Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium againts F.C. Sevilla.


MÁLAGA C.F. – REAL MADRID

C+Li/GolT Sat - 20:00

Get tickets at:

http://www.ticketbis.com
http://www.mercaentradas.com

Hotel EnFrente Arte ha sido elegido tercero de España como hotel de diseño.

Los hoteles Enfrente Arte, en Ronda, y Barceló Málaga se encuentran entre los 10 mejores hoteles de diseño, según una comparativa realizada por las opiniones de los usuarios de www.trivago.es, que sitúan al Casa Camper, de Barcelona, como el mejor de toda España.

El Hotel Enfrente Arte ocupa el tercer lugar de la clasificación y el estudio señala que el establecimiento se define a sí mismo como un hotel "bohemio y diferente" cuyo espíritu es hacer sentir al cliente como en casa, con precios asequibles y una decoración divertida.

Los muebles de las zonas comunes se han construido reciclando objetos antiguos. Cuenta con piezas de coches a modo de asientos, tablas de surf utilizadas como mesas o balones de baloncesto que hacen de macetas o nidos de pájaros.

En la entrada cuenta con un espacio donde se rinde homenaje a personajes como Picasso, Orswon Welles y Ernest Hemingway, los cuales han tenido una especial influencia en Ronda. Además, una de sus lámparas está dedicada al famoso pulpo Paul y a la Selección Española de Fútbol por su victoria en el Mundial de Sudáfrica.

Por su parte, el Barceló Málaga ocupa el puesto número ocho de este 'top ten'. De su decoración se ensalzan sus fuertes colores que contrastan con el blanco más puro, formas imposibles en el mobiliario y evocadores y sugerentes elementos decorativos.

En contraste con lo llamativo de las zonas comunes, las habitaciones invitan a la relajación con tonos suaves y ocres. Su restaurante El Andén fue galardonado en el año 2008 con el premio José Meliá Finisterra al mejor restaurante de hotel de la ciudad, por lo que la calidad y la vanguardia están presentes, no solo en la decoración, sino en todos los detalles. Lo más curioso es que para bajar desde las habitaciones, el viajero puede deslizarse por el tobogán para llegar al hall del hotel.

Completan la lista elaborada por trivago, además del mencionado Casa Camper; el Silken Gran Domine (Bilbao); el Silken Puerta América (Madrid); el Mi Norte, en Ribadeo (Lugo); el Hotel Room Mate Emma (Barcelona); el Refugio de Cristal, en Hontanar (Toledo); el Hotel Playa Ribera, de Suances (Cantabria); y el Hotel Vincci Vía 66 (Madrid).