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ONLY BE MADRILENIAN
Only-Be Madrilenian
The Russian Hermitage comes to the Prado Museum
On the occasion of Spain-Russia Dual Year 2011, the city of St. Petersburg hosted from February until May, the exhibition “Prado at the Hermitage”. A total of sixty-six paintings, Spanish, Italian and Flemish schools, gave proof of the importance of the Spanish museum in the incomparable setting of the Hermitage, one of the largest and most spectacular museums in the world. And now, continuing with this unprecedented exchange of collections, Prado Museum is honored to receive the State Hermitage Museum from St. Petersburg. This exhibition, opens on the 8th of November and will be open until the 25th of March, 2012 and is curated by Mikhail Piotrovsky which is also the director of the Russian Museum. Visitors will enjoy the one hundred and seventy works from the Hermitage including paintings, sculptures, decorative art objects and antiquities, among others, dating from the century V a. C. until the twentieth century. A variety of art collections gathered in one place, the Prado Museum in Madrid. Thus, ´Eternal Spring´ by Rodin (sculpture), ´Seated Woman´ by Picasso (oil painting), ´The Month of Mary´, Gauguin (oil painting), ´Conversation´ by Matisse (oil painting) and ´The lute player ´by Caravaggio (oil painting) are some of the works to be exhibited at the exhibition. Among the objects of decorative art is a sword that in the eighteenth century gave the Indian ambassador to the Tsar, a magnificent decorated with rubies, diamonds and silver, as well as the ´Glass Flowers´, by Carl Faberge, made in glass rock, diamonds and gold. The Madrid museum is named after the street where it is located, which the Paseo del Prado. This...Dehesa de la Villa in Madrid
Dehesa de la Villa is a park in Madrid that maintains its appearance as a forest and has flora and wildlife which can be enjoyed with the family.
Travel Paton Madrid
Travel Paton is more than a taxi service. They offer vehicles with or without driver in the whole province of Madrid.
Aleksandr Deineka in Madrid
Until the 15th of January 2012 Juan March Foundation in Madrid, for the first time exhibits the work of the Russian avant-garde artist Alexander Deineka. This is an exhibition is a vanguard of the proletariat, the purpose of the Foundation is to show the full extent of the work of this great artist, who produced artist pieces until the advent of socialist realism, which put an end to the forefront that had contributed his labor to the Russian Revolution. The exhibition consists of 80 oil paintings; including large format photography, audiovisual pieces, children´s books, magazines and other works and documentation that complete a total of 250 works. Even though this is not the first time that Daniela’s work is presented at Juan March Foundation, because in 1985 he presented the exhibition Russian Vanguard, 1910-1930. Collection and Museum Ludwig, the sample showed only a part of his work accompanied by Malevich, Popova and Rodchenko Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Deyneka born in Moscow in 1899. He studied at the Kharkov Art College, being a pupil of Alexander Lubimov, the founding member of the OST and Oktiabr artist groups. His early drawings and paintings were made in black and white, caused much speculation and curiosity about the peculiarity of his work; however, this option was related to the shortage of materials. His prolific work includes large mosaic murals as the one at Mayakovskaya station in the Moscow metro. His monumental paintings such as The Defense of Petrograd and the Battle of Sebastopol are the most representative from one stage of his work. He received the Decoration of the Order of Lenin and the Order...MadSegs Madrid
MadSegs offers different guided tours. The tourists will get around and see the most beautiful places on Segways, an ideal way of transport.
Madrid Guided Tours
Madrid Guided Tours offers everything necessary to fully get to know the city. Packs and different options at affordable prices.
Parque del Retiro
The Parque del Retiro is one of Madrid´s most significant places. With over 291 acres of land, it has various places to enjoy with your family.
21 Experimental Film Festival in Madrid
We are witnessing the decline of all common media. No, television radio, telecommunications and film are not going to disappear, it just happens that today we have more technology available that allows us to write, record and reproduce information on the web and other types of media. And due to that some governments are concerned about social media and its effects and possibilities. There is a phenomenon in social networks as well as the means of transmission of information via internet, be it YouTube or any other application to play music which should have us thinking about this amazing change of such sudden and unexpected appearance. The resolution of what we received today on our monitors are not necessarily appropriate, but what is the proper resolution? Sure, the resolution of a vinyl recording is not the same to the resolution of an mp3, of course, this has been discussed before. But what happens with image? Filming does only belong to a larger public domain, well, we do not necessarily agree because not everyone has access to a video camera. Nowadays mobile phones have a whole lot of applications to shoot video at different resolutions and formats, generate effects, edit and other interesting options to let your movie creative passion break out Perhaps an image of democracy is defined by the same texture, the quality of its display, its same mistakes. We do not talk so vividly when creating a video or following the editing processes, so let´s talk about the image error, the lack of light, wrong angles and lack of a provision of what is and what is...
Exhibition Imagenes en Lucha in Madrid
The Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo in Madrid is presenting the movie series Imágenes en lucha. Relatos de resistencia until the 3rd of FEbruary 2012. This movie exihibition commissioned by Céline Brouwez and Pablo Martínez seeks to expose those images that haven’t been taken up by circuits of image distribution like the movie theaters or television, but that show a different reality. We live in a society of images and every day we are being bombarded by them, but if we are being really honest how much do we know and see from reality? Very little. Today more than ever the image has become a fundamental instrument to capture daily facts and that thanks to mobile devices like cameras and cell phones. The questions that the creators of this circle had was “What happens with all the documentation of resistance that goes against what is allowed/legal or that simply are directed against the system that are not seen or aren’t wanted to be seen and remain hidden? The answer is very simple, they are waiting for an opportunity to be shown and there are thousands of people that are waiting to see this invisible world in the media and movie series. In realms of this series there are interesting exhibitions such as Fragmentos de una revolución that reveals images taken in Iran during the month of June in 2009 when the government manipulated the election results und thousands of civilianscame out to protest against the fraud standing up against political and military repression. On the streets without any official credential evidence it’s the civilians who construct a chronic...Jazz Festival in Madrid
The Madrid Jazz Gestival arrives to the Spanish capital this autumn proposing a month-long concert programme.
