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Mónica Boixeda
The International Fantasy Film Festival of Catalonia, also known as the Sitges Film Festival, is one of the most established international film festivals in Europe. Actually, this year it marks its 44th anniversary of showing the public the best films of the fantasy genre. From the 6th until the 16th of October 2011, more than one hundred films spread over three different spaces will be screened one after the other with no break in the middle. The starting gun this year will be the film ´Eva´, a futuristic outlook directed by a very young director called Kike Maíllo, with two inaugural screenings (at 10am and 12pm) in the place known as the ´Auditorio´ (Retiro, Tramonta, Prado and Miramar are the suggestive names of the other screening places). To the different and varied awards (Honorific Grand Prize, Time Machine, Casa Asia or the different traditional categories) we can add truly glamorous red carpet which makes this event an unmissable one for the fans of all types of film. Sitges is at a reasonable distance from the Catalan capital but very well communicated so, with your tickets which can be bought online, you have to book some of the excellent apartments in Barcelona At some point you´ll have to give your eyesight and soul a...
Mónica Boixeda
A place in Madrid where you can rent, buy or repair a bicycle with all security is By bike, a company that since 2006 has transformed itself in the favourite place for those who understand about bicycles. Located in the Retiro Park, it offers good alternatives for those who practice cycling as healthy leisure or for those who practice it as a sport. It also has interesting offers for those who use the bicycle as a form of transport. By bike was born with the objective of giving good service to the people of Madrid and to the tourists who are interested in getting to know the city at a different rhtyhm, allowing renting by hours to be able to enjoy a ride in Madrid´s most famous park. It also has routes where you can go accompanied or alone to get to know the most important places in the city. But because By bike knows about service, it has an excellent garage and repair service for your bicycle which is open all year long and which has the best prices in Madrid. Even for the amateur mechanics , it has a self-repair service with assessment from its technical staff. A good idea is to spend a few autumn days in apartments in Madrid and see the city on a bicycle to change your routine and stimulate mind and...
Mónica Boixeda
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...
Mónica Boixeda
The Prado Museum has had really interesting and relevant expositions but the one which is currently opened, called “Roma: Nature and Ideal. Landscapes. 1600-1650,” is according to its promoters one of the most ambitious ones that recently have been exposed and one which gathers more works related to the subject of the exposition than ever before. The exhibition was previously at the Grand Palais in Paris and in Madrid now reaches one of the most important museums that will be presented from July 5th until September 25th. At it you will see more than one hundred works of which 83 are paintings and 19 drawings. In the presentation there are some amazing works of incalculable value not only in relation to the theme of the expo, but also as far as artistic value is concerned. You will enjoy the works of Velázquez, Claude Lorrain, Poussin, Caravaggio, Raphael, Giorgione and Titian, among many others. According to the curator of the presentation, Andres Ubeda, the show will be full of surprises and the work “Marina” by artist Salvator Rosa, who was not exposed ever before will be there for your visual enjoyment The only difference that exists with the presentation that was held at the Grand Palais and the one held at the Museo del Prado is that the drawings presented are different due to a conservation issue (they could not move locations without risk) Also in Madrid there is a section that did not exist in the French capital. The explanation of the the ordering by Philip IV of the elaboration of many landscapes that would be used to decorate...
Mónica Boixeda
At the Crystal Palace in the Retiro Park in Madrid there will be an exhibition called “Continuará” which is a show, on between the 27th May and 3rd of October, presenting the work of artist Maja Bajevi?, who was born in Sarajevo in 1967. What´s interesting is that the artist has carried out the project especially for this space, making it a particularly unique show, along with the reason that this will be the first time that Bajevi? will have an individual exhibition in Spain, where she has been not quite as successful as in the rest of the world. The show is, above anything else, based around 140 economical and political slogans released between 1911 and 2011. Interestingly, as well as the information provided by the slogans, they can also be compared, as a study of the different political epochs ruling the world over the past 100 years. The get the best out of the show, it is divided into different sections, according to whether it is day or night, including an installation, archives, projection and performance. On top of all this, the artist will attempt to incorporate into the exhibition the construction of the Cristal Palace in the Retiro Park. This part of the work will be called “Sleeping Beauty,” which, according to Bajevi?, is because it is like a woman who for many decades remained distant from all that was going on in her surroundings. More information: http://www.museoreinasofia.es/exposiciones/futuras.html Palacio de Cristal del Parque del Retiro: Plaza Independencia s/n, 28001 Madrid, España MiLK If you fancy visiting “Continuará” and discovering one of the most acclaimed contemporary artists,...
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