Press Release ”la Caixa” will present five exhibitions over the 2019-2020 season in a programme in which the highlights include particularly shows organised in cooperation with major European museum institutions CaixaForum Madrid unveils its most transversal season, featuring luxury, vampires, surrealism, photography and contemporary art CaixaForum Madrid will launch its new season with an ambitious show, jointly organised with the British Museum, illustrating the importance of luxury in the different empires that occupied the Ancient Middle East. The superb pieces on show will range from the wall reliefs on the famous Palace of Nineveh to exquisite objects and miniatures from the Oxus Treasure. ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection also occupies an eminent position in the programme. The exhibition Painting: The Permanent Challenge is an examination of the evolution of contemporary painting over the last three decades. In February, vampires will colonise CaixaForum Madrid. Organised in cooperation with Cinémathèque Française, the exhibition Vampires will explore popular culture’s fascination with those terrifying yet iconic figures, tracing their evolution: from painting, photography and literature to film and television. The show is illustrated by more than 400 works by artists including Warhol and Goya. The first exhibition organised jointly by ”la Caixa” and the Pompidou Centre will open in April. The Camera and the City will explore urban photography from the early-20th century to the present through works from the French museum and some of the most outstanding collections of Spanish photography. Objects of Desire will examine the mutual influences between surrealism and design over the last century, a little-explored theme, in a show presented at CaixaForum Madrid by the Vitra Design Museum.
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Press Release
”la Caixa” will present five exhibitions over the 2019-2020 season in a
programme in which the highlights include particularly shows organised in
cooperation with major European museum institutions
CaixaForum Madrid unveils its most transversal season, featuring luxury,
vampires, surrealism, photography and contemporary art
CaixaForum Madrid will launch its new season with an ambitious
show, jointly organised with the British Museum, illustrating the
importance of luxury in the different empires that occupied the
Ancient Middle East. The superb pieces on show will range from the
wall reliefs on the famous Palace of Nineveh to exquisite objects and
miniatures from the Oxus Treasure.
”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection also occupies an eminent
position in the programme. The exhibition Painting: The Permanent
Challenge is an examination of the evolution of contemporary painting
over the last three decades.
In February, vampires will colonise CaixaForum Madrid. Organised in
cooperation with Cinémathèque Française, the exhibition Vampires
will explore popular culture’s fascination with those terrifying yet
iconic figures, tracing their evolution: from painting, photography and
literature to film and television. The show is illustrated by more than
400 works by artists including Warhol and Goya.
The first exhibition organised jointly by ”la Caixa” and the Pompidou
Centre will open in April. The Camera and the City will explore urban
photography from the early-20th century to the present through works
from the French museum and some of the most outstanding
collections of Spanish photography.
Objects of Desire will examine the mutual influences between
surrealism and design over the last century, a little-explored theme, in
a show presented at CaixaForum Madrid by the Vitra Design Museum.
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Madrid, 4 September 2019. This morning, Elisa Durán, Deputy General
Director of ”la Caixa” Banking Foundation, Ignasi Miró, Director of the Culture
Department of ”la Caixa” Banking Foundation, and Isabel Fuentes, Director of
CaixaForum Madrid, presented the programme for the coming season at the
banking organisation’s cultural centre.
For its CaixaForum centres, ”la Caixa” has designed a multidisciplinary and
innovative programme, the result of experience, rigour and the alliances
established with leading international cultural institutions. In the case of
CaixaForum Madrid, this cooperation includes the Pompidou Centre, the British
Museum, Cinémathèque Française and the Vitra Design Museum.
The unique model that CaixaForum embodies is a reflection of ”la Caixa”
Foundation’s determination to promote knowledge, culture and science as
drivers for the improvement and advance of society. CaixaForum is an active
player in fulfilling this mission, for the centres seek to activate life in our cities.
The CaixaForum experience goes far beyond exhibitions to embrace a wide
and varied programme of activities that includes concerts, lectures, courses
and educational and family workshops, among many more.
There are eight CaixaForum cultural centres, in Barcelona, Madrid, Seville,
Saragossa, Palma, Girona, Lleida and Tarragona. At them, in the 2018-
2019 season, ”la Caixa” Foundation presented a total of 34 exhibitions on
27 different themes. The total number of visitors at the centres reached
2,809,267 last year. With a programme of 1,700 activities, CaixaForum
Madrid received 836,076 visitors.
Exhibitions ranging from 900 BC to the present
As is habitual at CaixaForum centres, the 2019-2020 programme embraces a
wide range of themes, ranging from major cultures of the past to the most
recent artistic creation. The new season, which features both new shows and
co-productions developed in cooperation with leading international museums,
also highlights the Foundation’s main lines of interest, with shows devoted to
archaeology, design, popular culture and contemporary art.
As usual, then, the 2019-2020 will focus on the great cultures of the past, very
much a traditional exhibition line at ”la Caixa”. After the success in earlier
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seasons of joint projects with the British Museum such as The Pillars of Europe.
The Middle Ages at the British Museum; Competition in Ancient Greece, and
Pharaoh. King of Egypt, the new season will begin with an exhibition organised
within the framework of this alliance.
Based on the objects selected from the world-renowned collection conserved by
the British Museum, Luxury. From the Assyrians to Alexander the Great will
take the visitor on a fascinating journey through a host of luxury goods
produced from 900 to 300 BC by different civilisations in the Ancient Middle
East – Assyrians, Babylonians, Phoenicians and Persians.
The show includes a huge variety of artefacts
from the British Museum Collection, many of
them seen in Spain for the first time as part of
this international travelling exhibition. Luxury…
will feature more than 200 pieces, from delicate
ivory works and jewellery, furniture ornaments,
glasswork, pottery and precious metals to large
Assyrian reliefs. Particularly outstanding are the
wall reliefs from the famous Palace of Nineveh
and the exquisite pieces and miniatures from
the Oxus Treasure, the best-known repository
of gold and silver objects from Ancient Persia,
extraordinarily important due to the quality of
the pieces.
The following month, October, will see the opening of Painting: The
Permanent Challenge, an exhibition exploring the evolution of contemporary
painting over the last three decades through more than 30 works, most of them
from the ”la Caixa” Collection, the most important private contemporary art
collection in southern Europe. The exhibition places older works side-by-side
with more recent pieces, some of them new acquisitions, while others are on
show for the first time.
Painting was pronounced dead on several occasions in the twentieth century,
from Malevich’s maximum abstraction to the 1980s, not forgetting the
emergence of conceptual art in the 70s. But painting always finally reappears.
Over the last thirty years, the practice has been frequently recycled into
renewed formats, hybridised with other disciplines, but it has also been seen in