The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí Acquires Etude Pour ‘Le Miel est Plus Douce que la Sang’

FIGUERES.- The Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí announce that it has acquired the work by Salvador Dalí: Étude pour ‘Le miel est plus douce que la sang’, at the auction which took place at Christie’s London, on February, 9th, 2011 at 10pm, for a final price of £4,073,250. The work, lot 106 of the auction catalogue, an oil on wood from 1926-1927 representing one the first surrealist works of the artist, is a complete study for the painting of 1927 “Honey is [...]

Efren Alvarez at the Reina Sofia

Madrid – Economics, the project of the artist Efren Alvarez (Barcelona, 1980) produced specifically for the program Fissures of the Reina Sofia Museum, draws an overview of the current economy as autocaricaturiza discipline. Forty drawings and texts by various authors are relations systems in which the apparent intention of the project teaching translates into an approach to the unproductive, corrupt matter of alienation and relationships through work and consumption. Bank. Pencil on paper (2011) Efren Alvarez drawings take on a [...]

Object Strategies Between Readymade and Spectacle at Museo Reina Sofia

MADRID.- The exhibition New Realisms: 1957-1962 illuminates a turning point in the art of the second half of the 20th century — the point of rupture in the postwar period, which created the artistic conditions for what we now know as “The Sixties.” While that decade has been codified art historically with terms such as Pop, Fluxus, Minimalism, and Conceptual Art, the relatively short period that might be said to have generated its key criteria has been resistant to such [...]

After Forty Years, Lisson Gallery Revisits John Latham’s First Solo Exhibition

LONDON.- Forty years on from John Latham’s first solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery in 1970, the gallery revisits works and actions from that seminal show in the wider context of the artist’s work through the 1970s, a period of extraordinary innovation, productivity and influence. The work Latham made during this decade, beginning with the Lisson show, confirmed his position at the forefront of the new conceptual and event-based artistic practices. Through the diverse work he was producing in sculpture, film, [...]