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ONLY BE MADRILENIAN
Only-Be Madrilenian
Cencibel Madrid
Cencibel presents not only exquisite wines but also private wine tastings and courses where you´ll learn how to enjoy this drink.
Mariano Madrueño Madrid
The winery Mariano Madrueño opened at the end of the 1800s and is part of the culture of the city of Madrid. If you´re a wine lover you can´t miss out
A Punto Bookshop Madrid
Wine and cuisine are two passions that many people have and A Punto is a specialized bookshop where you´ll be able to know both subjects in depth.
Aliana Gastronomical Bookshop Madrid
Aliana opened 20 years ago and it has over three thousands books on its shelves. An ideal place for cuisine and gastronomy lovers.
15M, outraged and revolution
Things in Spain today are quite difficult. The lack of employment and general social upheaval create disturbing general symptoms. However, with encampments and the organization of the May 15th the people have finally shown to have awakened, there is an urgent need for change in the Spanish political organization, the neoliberal model that once we thought was the solution, turned up not to be that effective. The union of all, peaceful protests and without violence can generate more changes than all the pain caused to the revolutionary political organizations in the past. And the truth is, young people now do not believe in political parties. The party idea has been well behind. The idea of the political party is retrograde, recalcitrant, boring. Every party requires leaders, heads, and mouthpieces. The phenomenon of 15-M and campings everywhere, as well as other protests and revolutions worldwide, demonstrates leadership, it shows that enough is enough, enough leaders, just the same revolutionary impulse absorbing system off and on with its own guidelines. We are now facing the phenomenon of the rhizomatic political organization via Internet. Facebook and Twitter, two of the most abominable creations of cyberspace may, and as we suspect, have not been just another invention to become consumers and producers of information faster and efficiently. They are indispensable tools in today´s political world. Chain letters, invitations to events, fan pages, among others. This is how people,, the mass of young people who seek change are more aware of everything that happens. Recently, the community of Lavapies said no to authoritarianism, no to racism, no to violence. Racism in Spain is really...
The Descent by Caravaggio in Madrid
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, famous throughout the world and known simply as Caravaggio, was born in Milan and is one of the most important painters of the history of art, as well as one of the promoters of Baroque art. “The Descent”, one of his many paintings, is for the first time in Spain and will be on exhibition until the 18th of September at Prado Museum in Madrid. The painting is presented within the framework of exhibition “The Word made image- Paintings of Christ at the Prado Museum”; this exhibition will be composed of different works on display in the various museum galleries throughout the year. “The Descent” is a unique and stunning painting that has three meters high and two wide. Here you can see Nicodemus and John carrying the body of Jesus Christ. On the back there is Mary Magdalene, who is drying her tears with a handkerchief with her head down in shame and true sadness. “The Descent” is not the only painting that on display. There are in total 14 religion pieces, but without a doubt, the Caravaggio’s one will attract the higher amount of people throughout the months of exposure. The story of the artist is quite cruel, he was born in 1573 and his parents passed away when he was just a child, after many problems, he managed to enter to one of the most important workshops, called Cavalier D´Arpino, in the year ´94. Eight months later, with a lot more experience and a life on track, he opened his own workshop. From that time Cardinal del Monte helped him in the...Graphic Book Madrid
Graphic Book is a bookshop that specializes in design but it also has books on advertising, decoration, illustration and more.
Paloma Gámez in Madrid with Carta de Color
In its interesting summer programme, La Casa Encendida in Madrid exhibits until the 4th of September the project Carta de Color of the artist Paloma Gámez. With the artistic exhibition in the second floor of La Casa Encendida tries for the spectator to re-think the concept of painting when leaving the traditional support. Carta de Color is an interesting proposal by Gámez, in which she dialogues with the spectators about the effects of colour and symbolisms that the pictorial fact contains. The name used for the artistic exhibition refers to the classic tool used in industrial and artistic painting, photography and video. This tool allows precise control of colours and the most precise re those constructed on a cardboard with colour patches on it. The project was born as part of an investigation that Gámez made previously, elaborating a colour chart. This chart was meant to be used in the exhibition of a part of La Casa Encendida. The colour chart the she designs is totally subjective, just like she organizes and executes her work without avoiding the game of uncertainty. This work was taped on video to be projected in the exhibition as a complement of aesthetic work. In it you can see part of the process of the design of the colour chart with the aim to give visibility to the design and the production manner that creative work has. The transformation of the place through painting generates a redefinition in the perception of the spectators on the architectonic space, questioning the ways that seemed already known. Paloma Gámez studied in the Fine Arts School of Granada...
Maja Bajevic in Madrid
The Crystal Palace of Madrid´s Retiro Park exposes until October 3rd the solo exhibition of the conceptual Bosnian artist Maja Bajevic. The installation titled continue was elaborated by the artist for the exhibition, and is the first time Bajevic exposes in Spain. At “Continue” Bajevic builds a scaffold, a lonely podium where there is no statue. On top of that structure there are five screens that continuously play a series of videos with a play called Wende, a German word that means “turn” and refers to events that occurred with the fall of the Berlin Wall, with the consequent fall of real socialism. In the video you see people walking, suddenly they stop and turn around. Along with this, machines that produce steam symbolize the era of the Industrial Revolution. During the night slogans are projected on moving steam visiting a century of political life and changes. Vocal solo songs are performed by professional singers and apprentices that can be heard from an installation by the artist. This conceptual work alludes to the fragmented memory of a tumultuous century, where two civil wars, revolutions and holocausts transformed the internal and external boundaries of humanity, creating dramatic twists and just as the name of the expo insinuates: it will Continue In her recurring themes, movement and change, marks her identity derived from personal experiences in the political conflict that led to war and ended former Yugoslavia. Born in Sarajevo, Bosnia in 1967 she saw the stability of her the world brake into pieces, although during the war in Yugoslavia, she lived in Paris. This reason leads Bajevic to transcribe in...
