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Mónica Boixeda
Miró said “When I paint a painting, I fall in love with it; a love which rises from slow understanding”. This tireless, poetic, relentless, thorough and perfectionist artist, almost obsessive and never satisfied with what he does, changes and changes again. Contradictory although loyal to his search for the authentic. Born in Barcelona in 1893, he was made by his family to work initially in an office, although he dreamt of being a painter. Differently to another of the most international Spanish painters, Picasso, Miró was much more discreet and searched for anonymity. “Anonymity allows you to reach what is universal” he said. The exhibition has been organized together with the Tate Modern in London and the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona, and it holds over 150 works by the artist. ´The ladder of escape´ examines his broad career showing his tendency to contemplative isolation and the political commitment of the artist with the dark times he had to live in, to which he obviously wasn´t immune to. In the first rooms there are paintings such as ´Masia´ and ´Paisaje catalán´, which explore the ties with his native Catalonia, especially with Montroig, where his family had a farmhouse. That´s where Miró discovered and began to be aware that he wanted to be a painter, but not only a painter but a Catalan painter. After a first contact with foreign painting, he began with a style a tad ´fauve´ and cubist, but with a tremendous print from his native Catalonia, of the churches and frescos which he came across his country. Before leaving for Paris, he already had the chance to...
Mónica Boixeda
A couple of years ago, at a performances festival which took place in Paris, the Croatian artist Sanja Ivekovi?, protagonist of the excellent anthological exhibition ´Sweet Violence´ which can be visited at the MOMA until the 26th of March (http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1148), presented a piece, ´Eva´s Game´, in which she recreated the extremely famous photograph of Julian Wasser taken in 1962 regarding the great anthological exhibition of Marcel Duchamp at the Pasadena Art Museum, which represented the influential and enigmatic French artist, who had allegedly retired decades ago from all artistic production, playing chess with his young friend and future artist and writer Eve Babitz, who facing the ever-smart looking Duchamp, appeared completely naked. Sanja Ivekovi? deconstructed the famous image, a regular practice in her interesting work, recreating the game in a way that it was the woman, herself, who was dressed, in black like Duchamp, while her opponent, the commissioner of the Parisian festival, was completely naked. At the same time that both recreated the game at Pasadena, they recited a dialogue made with the words of an interview given by Eve Babitz herself, whose answers were proffered by Sanja Ivekovi?, placing herself somewhat simultaneously in the place of the two protagonists of the scene, nearly forty years after the original photo. The performance give us many guidelines on the way that Sanja Ivekovi? works with texts and images, as well as the feminist side of her work, always interested to tackle the problem of the role of women in society and in history inside the context of an incisive social and political critic which deals directly with the most controversial subjects of our time...
Mónica Boixeda
In a place with such artistic tradition as Italy, in general, and in Milan, in particular, it´s not strange that many good contemporary art galleries proliferate. Carla Sozzan´s shows, logically, a clear wide space painted in white where exhibitions come one after the other uninterruptedly. Logically, in contemporary art, the pay special attention to photography, printmaking, new materials and, even, installations and performances which take place at the gallery every so often. The organizers have paid special attention to the virtual shop where they sell the catalogues of all the exhibitions which have taken place up until then. The sybarite traveller who is passing by this beautiful city, where everything is art and design, just as they leave their luggage in one of the excellent apartments in Milan can begin to see the city´s galleries. Of course, Carla Sozzani´s is a must see. If you´ve attended an exhibition or you´ve purchased a piece, we´d like to know your thoughts. The comments box is at your entire disposal. We´ll wait here behind the screen in case you need any additional...
Mónica Boixeda
London, like all metropolis, and especially because it´s one of the most famous and visited around the world, is a city with a lot of diversity which allows visitors to enjoy all sorts of cultures, regardless of how strange and extravagant they are. And that without taking into account the amount of museums, monuments and parks, among other things, that it has. If one of the things that you like is going out to eat and you like Indian food, one of the most interesting, affordable and easily accessible restaurants is definitely Bangalore Express. This restaurant has a relaxed atmosphere with waiters who will serve you with the best intentions and vibes and, at the same time, present you with a unique culinary diversity. It´s located in front of Waterloo Station, in the centre of London, so getting there will take you just a few minutes and it will be impossible to get lost. The atmosphere of Bangalore Express as well as the service, the food, the drinks and the value for money are among the best in the business. If you want to visit this restaurant, all you have to do is rent apartments in London and enjoy a wonderful place and a spectacular...
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The traveller has arrived in Málaga. He goes in search of its light, its art centres, its sea, its theatres and… its food. Málaga offers itself to all clichés when it comes to gastronomy. Both in the capital as in the hundreds of miles that make up the famous Costa del Sol, there are all types of restaurants one after the other for all tastes and pockets. Typical restaurants, cuisine from all over the world and its famous ´chiringuitos´ (beach restaurants) have place in Málaga. So if you´ve arrived to this wonderful southern city, have taken possession of your provisional home at one of the excellent apartments in Malaga which are at the disposal of the most demanding traveller, and you find that, despite this gastronomical offering, you don´t fancy leaving because you´re too comfortable, the best thing to do is to call La Caprichosa. In this typical restaurant you´ll find everything that you´re looking for, from pizzas to roast chicken, from homemade croquettes to beef meatballs, from salads to soups, and all of this at an amazing price. They bring your order to you in just half an hour, so you just have to drop them an email or call them to begin to enjoy Mediterranean...
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