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Cold America in the Juan March Foundation in Madrid
Until May 15 the exhibition Cold America. Latin American geometric abstraction, 1934-1973 is presented at the Juan March Foundation in Madrid. The exhibition is organized around 300 works and seeks to establish new parameters in the history of Latin American geometric abstraction, highlighting the particularities and differences it has with this artistic movement in Europe. Comprised of paintings, sculptures, architecture and photography from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela, the simple is chronologically framed in the return of Joaquin Torres Garcia to Uruguay (1934) and the return of Jesús Rafael Soto (1973) to Venezuela for the opening of the Ciudad Bolivar Museum. The geometric abstraction has its roots in the Kasimir Malevich’s suprematism, the Piet Mondrian’s neoplasticism and Wassily Kandinsky’s avant-garde. It is described as a stream of abstract art that emerged in response to Impressionism, striving for objectivity and universality that the geometric mean. One of the drivers of geometric abstraction in Latin America was Joaquín Torres García. He was born in Montevideo in 1874. At 17, he traveled to Spain to finish school in the town of Mataró, where his father´s family lived. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Barcelona where he was influenced by French Impressionism. His connection with the stream of geometric abstraction occurred in Paris, where he was invited to participate in the group who frequented Piet Mondrian and joined the Cercle et Carré. Torres Garcia brings the logic in the composition and the inclusion of symbolic figures to the group. In 1934 he returned to Uruguay and joined the elite of art, driving forward the avant-garde thinking. He...
Roy Lichtenstein at the Albertina, Viena
Viena´s Albertina Museum is showing the work of Pop Art legend Roy Lichtenstein, with the exhibition “Black & White 1961 – 1968,” on until the 15th of May. Lichenstein´s work forms an undisputed part of the collective canon of vanguard artists – and his popularity and fame has never shown any sign of slowing down. His aesthetic was born of a love of comics – one of the biggest forms of cultural media – and thematically, his interest in the mundane of the day to day, and the trivial ways that lives are controlled by the mass media, publicity, and social stereotyping. Lichtenstien continued the tradition of the modern vanguard artists, who considered the idea of the death of art, and the preservation of technical skill and aesthetics – until he arrived at the ultimate antithesis of “art”: popular, mainstream culture, which was free of any artistic elitism or puritanism. It was this that enabled Lichtenstein to free art of its constraints and bring a whole new definition to modern art. In 1961, he started drawing in black and white – a fascination which would last until 1968, forming the series of innovative works on show at the Viena Albertina. More information about the exhibition: http://www.albertina.at/jart/prj3/albertina/main.jart?rel=de&content-id=1202307119260&reserve-mode=active&ausstellungen_id=1287026237355 Heloise Battista For anybody who loves Pop Art, the “Black & White” exhibition is a must-see. Don´t waste any more time – rent apartments in Vienna and find out about one of Roy Lichtenstein´s most creative periods. Contact Me Translated by: Poppy Contact...
Barcelona Fetish Weekend
The first Barcelona Fetish weekend will be held between April 15 and 17. The party is hosted by Fetish Movies and expects to summon all lovers of unlimited sexual enjoyment and get closer to the sense of curiosity of those who have not yet been integrated with these sexual practices. The main show will be held at Club Row 14, located near the airport. The site was chosen because of the discretion that its spaces offer for lovers of latex costumes and the different spaces that allow the presentation of different DJs, dancing platforms, performances and audiovisual presentations that promise a high-level party. It also includes spaces for kinky play, dungeons, Shining Stations, dark spaces and places of BDSM fantasy. Naturally, the party could not stand apart from fashion and latex costume design. The Fetish Fair, to be held on Saturday April 16 from 1pm to 6pm at La Maryposa, will present the latest creations and accessories from English designers Rubberluv for all ages and genres in the Fetish Fair. There will be designers, photographers and models to directly display the wonderful creations and the best kinky pictures. This space will be open to emerging artists and kinky clothes and accessories designers, as well as artists who wish to showcase their creations. For those wishing to improve their expressive skills in the Fetish Café and Rosas5 workshops will be organized on intimate mummification, wax, bondage and Shibari. Shibari is a Japanese bondage technique that is performed with extreme sexual sophistication, it’s very subtle and could only be taught by the samurai; it consists of immobilizing first the trunk in...Tribeca
This restaurant situated in the Eixample Esquerre district of Barcelona offers a great variety of Mediterranean plates.
Differences between male and female brains
Numerous studies have tried to find the differences between male and female brains. And although many differences have been found, they are still far from being objectified and categorized. Our genes are not equal; men have a Y chromosome that female mammals do not. This Y chromosome has been named the Adam chromosome, inherited from the father as opposed to the Mitochondrial Eve chromosome inherited from the mother. An experiment conducted by Melisa Himer in 2002 revealed some facts that might call into question all equal education patterns. Very young individuals were presented toys with marked sexist connotations: a truck and a ball, a doll and a frying pan. The males chose the car and the ball while the female, the doll and the pan. And one of the most amazing things of this study is that these individuals who took this decision were not human, but primates. But the differences between 2 sexes sometimes need not be greater than those between members of the same sex. We have many open topics in neuroanatomy; for example, that men have more white matter in the brain and women have more grey matter. In neurochemistry, we have different serotonin answers when we are under stress. In neurofunction, males are characterized by having more developed left side brain, i.e. rational side, and women, the right side, which is the emotional. But haven’t we ever seen aggressive women, depressed men, and don’t we know now that there are many more types of intelligence than just the rational and emotional? All these topics may have skewed too much both the medical community and...
Animadrid in the Cervantes Institute in Istanbul
From April 4 to 30 the Cervantes Institute along with the Pera Museum in Turkey will develop a children´s film cycle named Animadrid festival to mark the National Day for Children and Youth in Turkey. The Spanish animation film series is intended for all audiences. Animadrid is an international animated picture festival that is held annually in Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid) and is organized by the Municipal Board of the City of Pozuelo de Alarcón and Vice President and Ministry of Culture and Sport of the Community of Madrid, to promote audiovisual entertainment and provide a meeting place for artists and audience. The animation was born with cinema and the desire to bring realism to motion pictures. Background reports that Emile Reynaud spent 10 years projecting his images on the Grévin Museum of Paris, thanks to his invention of Praxinoscope in 1977. Since then and the invention of the Lumiere brothers, several lovers of motion picture ventured to develop the technique of animation. However, the splendor of the animation was achieved by the brothers Max and Dave Fischer when using the technique perfected by Earl Hurd in Koko the Clown (1920) and the representation of the sexy singer Helen Kane, Betty Boop in (1930) whose poo-poo-pi-do sounds became a classic of American society. Otto Messmer, avant-garde creator of the famous Felix the Cat for Pat Sullivan studies, revolutionized animation when giving personality and human features to animals, anticipating the creations of Walt Disney and other creators who gave life to cartoon animals. The success of his caricature lay in surreal fantasy Felix developed in his wild antics. In...
The splendor of the Romanesque masterpieces in Madrid
Definitely, the twenty-first century seems to be changing appreciably the chances of appreciating art, regardless of our ability to move geographically or in the spot in the world where we reside. On one hand, the brand new Art of Google Project enables to explore museums around the world, -it’s intriguing indeed the absence of institutions like the Louvre, the Pompidou and the Prado museum- and view hundreds of artworks through a zoom with a stunning resolution similar to that with which art restorers work (it offers, using a tool by Spanish company Madpixel that photographs each frame synchronized to the nearest millimeter, an image of 14,000 million pixels, a thousand times more detail than detail provided by a normal camera) and create and share on the network our own collection of masterworks. On the other hand, the phenomenon being favored by the economic crisis, it is increasingly common for major museums around the world to take advantage of the time period during which their buildings are being renovated to host tours of their most representative works, getting big change and economic benefits offering in turn the possibility to show them, sometimes even thousands of miles away. This is the case of the National Museum of Catalan Art (MNAC) which, in exchange for 900,000 euros and a commitment to fund a research program that includes the digitization of the museum funds, has used its prestigious Romanesque rooms are temporarily closed to move the parts normally exposed to the elegant mansion where the Fundation Mapfre showroom has at Paseo de Recoletos, number 23 in Madrid until May 15. This is an...
Belle & Sebastian, indie pop par excellence, comes to Vienna
Scotland recently succeeded in cultivating a lot of interesting bands which are recognized worldwide. One of those bands is undoubtedly Belle & Sebastian who, after years of playing and performing songs, grouped thousands and thousands of fans around the world. The band, one of the most important of indie pop panorama around the world, was born in Glasgow on 1996 and its current members are Stuart Murdoch, vocals, guitar and keyboards, Stevie Jackson, who also sings and is second guitar, keyboards Chris Geddes, Sarah Martin on violin and vocals, Mick Cooke on trumpet and bass, Bobby Kildea on bass and guitar and Richard Colburn on drums (some time ago Isobel Campbell and Stuart David left the band). Belle & Sebastian´s name was born from a children´s book (later adapted to the animated television format) written by the French Cécile Aubry. This book tells the story of a boy named Sébastien and his dog Belle. The band was able, through their nine studio productions, to make their followers have an almost religious fanaticism and many critics compare this fan madness with The Smiths’, the group led by Morrissey, in their heyday. This is attributed by many to the fact that until 2003 the band had no singles in their productions. That is why those who followed them did not have a song simply because it appeared on radio, but because they had actually heard their whole discography. This time the Scottish group will make a presentation in Austria on April 16 at the Gasometer. More info: http://www.myspace.com/events/View/9287843/belle-and-sebastian/Belle–Sebasitan Gasometer: Guglgasse 8, 1110 Wien, Vienna, Austria MiLK For this reason if you...
Paradise Lost in Istanbul
On the 23rd of March, Istanbul opens with “Paradise Lost,” a brilliant new exhibition centred around the notion of the innocence and purity of nature in the context of contemporary art. The work of 19 artists will form the examination of the conflict between nature and today´s technological society. A key element of the show is the idea of an ancestral nostalgia for “paradise lost” in the face of culture, industry and technology. The investigation into the concept of nature makes Romanticism as its starting point, placing special emphasis on the artistic point of view; and how it is effected by the artifices of todays culture, and the current postmodernism. With this in mind, some of the questions which the show asks are about whether natural innocence still exists in this day and age, or whether the notion is a purely romantic one. Unsurprisingly, there is also reflection upon the ecological future of the planet – and whether we have arrived at a point of no return in terms of the destruction of nature. And even if some form of natural innocence still exists – will the growing dichotomy between the natural and the technological eventually render it unrecognisable? This is an interesting project which has collaborated with some of today´s most exciting contemporary artists, such as Belgian Francis Alys, acclaimed video-artist Pipilotti Rist, Kiki Smith Bill Viola, Pae White, Ulrike Ottinger, Armin Linke, and Guy Maddin. More information about this fantastic work: http://www.istanbulmodern.org/en/f_index.html Heloise Battista This exhibition is on until 24th of July. The best option would be to rent apartments in Istanbul, and head down to...Michelín Stars 2012: The best restaurants in Barcelona and Catalonia
The Michelin Guide is the most prestigious list of the best restaurants in the world and it already has presented its Spain edition for 2012.
