Press release (Available in Catalan language)

This October, the Neue Galerie New York will present the first major museum exhibition ever held in the United States devoted exclusively to the postcards produced by the Wiener Werkstätte. The show is drawn exclusively from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection and coincides with the gift to the Neue Galerie of nearly 1,000 postcards produced by the firm during the period 1907-1920.

This small-format show, produced as part of the new arrangement of the museum´s collection, is an exploration of Science and Charity, painted by Picasso in 1897. The canvas is an emblematic work from the artist´s early years. The subject matter falls into the genre of Social Realism that was so prevalent in the more conservative artistic circles of the second half of the nineteenth century and follows the line of works shown at the main art exhibitions of the 1890s.

"Ismael Smith and 1900s Sculpture" is one of a series of lectures and other activities organised to tie in with the "Ismael Smith. Paris Sketchbook" exhibition at the Museu d´Art de Cerdanyola del Vallès, which will run until 13 March.

The lecture will be held at the Museu d´Art de Cerdanyola, Carrer Sant Martí 88, Cerdanyola del Vallès, on 24 February at 19:30.

Programme of activities (only available in Catalan)

"Smith and Granados" is the last in a series of lectures and other activities organised around the "Ismael Smith. Paris Sketchbook" exhibition at the Museu d´Art de Cerdanyola del Vallès, which will run until 13 March.

The lecture will be held at the Museu d´Art de Cerdanyola, Carrer Sant Martí 88, Cerdanyola del Vallès, on 17 March at 19:30.

Programme of activities

The Fondation de l´Hermitage is organizing a major exhibition devoted to Spanish art at the dawn of the 20th century. Focusing on painters of "The Generation of 1898" who emerged from the severe upheavals endured by Spain throughout the 19th century, the exhibition highlights how these artists evolved. Oscillating between respect for Hispanic traditions and modernity, their works were part of the contemporary surge to broaden horizons that arose among the Spanish avant-garde.

Inaugural conference by Miquel-Àngel Codes, the exhibition curator.

Price:
Admission free

Place:
C. dels Ciutadans 19
17004 Girona
Phone: 972 20 98 36

"Tourism and preserving the Modernista heritage: a source of funding... a source of problems?" that is the issue up for discussion at the Historical Laboratory II to be held at the Auditori CX La Pedrera on 4 June. These conferences will feature discussions on the sustainability of buildings and the solutions that can be applied to buildings that attract large numbers of tourists. The speakers, who come from all around Europe and beyond, will be discussing the cases of La Pedrera (Casa Milà) in Barcelona, the Museum Horta in Brussels, The Glasgow School of Art in Scotland, the Palau Cueto in Havana and the Crespi d'Adda planned industrial colony in the region of Lombary, among others.

The Réseau Art Nouveau Network is currently made up of sixteen cities and six institutions that promote academic and educational activities, to disseminate and study Art Nouveau through the support of the European Commission's 2007-2013 Culture Programme.

The network is noted as much for its enterprise and commitment as for putting the case for a rigourous and vigilant scientific approach for keeping professionals informed and shaping public opinion on the cultural importance of this heritage we have so near at hand. Which is why these two days of talks will be open to the public.

Free participation with compulsory registration before 27 May.

Download the programmes with their corresponding registration forms.

Find out more information about HistoryLabs of the Réseau Art Nouveau Network:

www.artnouveau-net.eu

On 3, 4 and 5 June 2011, Cor Eixample-Trade and Professional Association for the Right Side of the Eixample-and the Institut Municipal del Paisatge Urbà-Barcelona City Council-are organising the seventh Barcelona Modernista Fair.

As in other years, the fair will be located on carrer Girona-between av. Diagonal and carrer d´Aragó-with leisure and cultural activities for young people, adults and the little ones. Among other activities, visitors can enjoy kids´ games, shows, workshops, a museum displaying period cars, a conference on Modernisme, guided tours, street entertainment and many other surprises. Other towns and organisations which also share a relationship with Modernisme will be attending, as well as a stand offering information and selling products related to Barcelona´s Ruta del Modernisme.

Furthermore, whoever comes dressed in an Art Nouveau period style will receive a gift photo of themselves and go into the draw for a trip, among other prizes.

For more information, you can contact the Centre del Modernisme, tel. +34 933 177 652, or web www.rutadelmodernisme.com, or Cor Eixample tel. +34 934 871 243.

The international network of Art Nouveau-heritage cities, Réseau Art Nouveau Network, will be holding the second Multilateral Exchange on 6 June, in collaboration with the Urban Landscape Institute, on the use of new technologies for disseminating that heritage.

During the multilateral exchange to be held at the Conservatori de Música on 6 June, the following topic will be debated: "New technologies and social media networks in the dissemination of heritage: challenges and opportunities". Offering the potential to expand the Art Nouveau heritage, these tools also pose a great challenge for the cultural sector. Barcelona, Brussels, Budapest, Glasgow and Aveiro will be sharing their experiences with other cities on designing web pages, creating virtual archives, digitizing pictures of historical monuments and their presence on social media networks.

The Réseau Art Nouveau Network is currently made up of sixteen cities and six institutions that promote academic and educational activities, to disseminate and study Art Nouveau through the support of the European Commission's 2007-2013 Culture Programme.

The network is noted as much for its enterprise and commitment as for putting the case for a rigourous and vigilant scientific approach for keeping professionals informed and shaping public opinion on the cultural importance of this heritage we have so near at hand. Which is why this Multilateral Exchange will be open to the public. Free participation with compulsory registration before 27 May.

Download the programmes with their corresponding registration forms.

For more information on the Multilateral Exchanges

Exhibition Catalogue:

Egon Schiele - Selbstporträts und Porträts ("Egon Schiele - Self-Portraits and Portraits")

Ed. Agnes Husslein-Arco, Jane Kallir
Size: 24 × 32 cm
Pages: 300
ISBN: 978-3-7913-5109-4 (English)
Prize: 38 euros

Available from February 2011
Preorder now: shop@belvedere.at

In Spring 2011, the Neue Galerie will present an exhibition entitled Vienna 1900: Style and Identity. The aim of this exhibition is to show a common thread running through the fine and decorative arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna: the redefining of individual identity in the modern age. It will be organized by distinguished curators Jill Lloyd and Christian Witt-Dörring.

Jugendstil as total work of art - discover Bad Nauheim's handicraft and industrial heritage!
Living history! Bad Nauheim celebrates its cultural heritage during the Jugendstil Festival in the largest connected construction of Jugendstil in Europe. Jugendstil lovers will enjoy themselves strolling through the handcraft market where more than 60 selected restorer and artists expose the large hand-made repertoire from that time. It is a pleasure to take a look over the conservator´s shoulder and admire all the examples of stucco-, ceramic-, mosaic-, glass-, wood-, sewing- and jewel works. Moreover many events such as music performances, fashion shows, exhibitions and guided tours will take place during the whole festival.

El cap de setmana del 22 i 23 d´octubre Barcelona celebra la segona edició del 48H OPEN HOUSE BCN, el major festival d´arquitectura de gratuït de la ciutat que obre les portes de 155 edificis.

L´emblemàtica Torre de Collserola de l´arquitecte Norman Foster; el centro de creació, la Central del Circ al Fòrum; el recentment rehabilitat Hotel Espanya o una visita comentada al cementiri de Montjuïc són algunes de les noves visites que proposa aquesta iniciativa popular de caràcter divulgatiu.

Una cita única que permet a cada ciutadà/ciutadana dissenyar el seu itinerari per descobrir l´arquitectura que defineix el seu passat, present i futur.

Aquest any es podran visitar són 155 edificis de diferents tipologies, formes i mesures. Ascendir a l'emblemàtica Torre de Collserola (arq. Norman Foster, 1889-1992); descobrir les recentment estrenades instal·lacions d'un centre de creació com la Central del Circ al Fòrum (arq. Xavier Ruscalleda i Marta Lorenzo xxm_Arquitectura, 2010); traslladar-se al segle XVIII al endinsar-se en les estades del Palau Moxó (arq. Francesc Mestres, 1977), l'únic palau privat de Barcelona que conserva el seu mobiliari i interiors originals; endinsar-se en un dels habitatges del projecte Casa Bloc (arq. Josep Lluís Sert, Joan Baptista Subirana i Josep Torres Clavé (GATCPAC), 1933-1939), un grup de 200 habitatges de tipologia dúplex i de lloguer destinat originalment a acollir els obrers que vivien en barraques de condicions precàries i avui museïtzat com a exemple d'arquitectura moderna; admirar la rehabilitació de l´ Hotel Espanya, edifici original de 1859 que manté les intervencions modernistes de Domènech i Montaner, Eusebi Arnau i Ramon Casas; infiltrar-se al taller- habitatge d´un conegut artista de la ciutat o inscriure´s en una visita comentada al cementeri de Montjuïc són algunes de les singulars propostes que 48H OHB_2011 incorpora com a novetat a la seva programació.

48H OHB és membre de l´Open House Worlwide

www.48hopenhousebarcelona.org

CatalunyaCaixa´s Social Project holds the seventh Cultural Heritage Conference, in collaboration with the University of Barcelona and the Barcelona Institute of Architecture (BIArch).

This year the conference is on historic buildings as cultural centres and will focus on the tension or opportunity for architectural work, striking a balance between conservation and new designs and analysing the role of the Land Use Plan. A number of specialists will present the subject and give specific national and international cases. The conference is open to professionals from different areas, representatives of public and private organisations and anyone interested in all aspects of heritage.

Free admission. Limited places.

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The Art of Living focuses on Horta´s innovations in the programme of civil living and the diaspora of his concepts on Brussels and Europe. Horta designed the most optimal living and residential environment. To Horta Living means an act and atmosphere at the same time. With nature as benchmark he takes stone, glass and metal to form a biomorphous architecture sprouting from the way people are and live.
The Art of Shopping reflects the times when Emile Zola wrote his novel Au bonheur des Dames in 1883 and focuses on shopping in stores and warehouses designed by Horta and the atmosphere of shopping at the turn of the century in 1900 in Brussels and Europe.

Based around the innovative jewellery designs of members of the Darmstadt Artists´ Colony-Peter Behrens, Rudolf Bosselt, Paul Bürck, Hans Christiansen, Johann Vincenz Cissarz, Ludwig Habich, Patriz Huber and Joseph Maria Olbrich-a unique exhibition on European jewellery history from around 1900 will once more take place in autumn 2011. It will be held in the exhibition rooms of the Museum Künstlerkolonie (Darmstadt Artists´ Colony), housed in impressive Jugendstil-era buildings. Highly valued pieces of jewellery by René Lalique, Georges Fouquet, Jan Eisenloeffel and Fabergé present a detailed overview of the outstanding creativity these artists expressed through the Jugendstil.

As well as including the Museum Künstlerkolonie´s finest jewellery, the exhibition displays a selection of particularly exquisite objects from the outstanding Jugendstil jewellery collection in the Hessisches Landesmuseum. This museum´s inventory is based on the collection of the Dutch court jeweller Karel A. Citroen (b. 1922). On display are works by the famous Parisian jewellers, goldsmiths and enamellers René Lalique and Georges Fouquet as well as André-Fernand Thesmar and Lucien Gaillard. Lalique sparked a revolution in the field of jewellery design while inspiring Viennese jewellery production at the turn of the century, which neverthless developed in a different direction. Josef Hoffmann´s stricter designs are a statement that the artistic composition and handworked quality of a piece of jewellery is more important than its value in raw materials.

It is difficult to believe that a piece of architecture that was acclaimed in its period, barely more than a century ago, and built with a masterly savoir faire out of the finest quality materials, should be revealed to be so fragile. Its history could become the plot of a modern fable.

This exhibition, which the Maison Autrique is dedicating to Victor Horta, proposes following or retracing the key moments of a piece of architecture which has long since disappeared. This initiative is another push in the movement to recover Art Nouveau history, a movement that has been of the highest importance in the Brussels region for several years.

"Victor Horta - A Lost World", open to the public until 31 December 2011, fulfils expectations: the pieces, works and films presented are simply extraordinary. The exhibition is structured around three themes: projects which were never undertaken (such as the Congo Pavilion), those that destiny has done away with (l´Innovation department store, for example) and those which humans have destroyed (the Maison du Peuple is the most iconic example).

These vanished projects come alive again at the Maison Autrique in different ways: Horta´s plans and sketches, impressive remains (which you can even touch), reconstructions and some period film pieces. The whole forms a highly coherent, varied exhibition.

From Saturday, 1 October 2011 to Sunday, 8 January 2012, a guided route is being offered to get to know Enric Sagnier´s architecture. This is the architect with the largest number of buildings in Barcelona. This itinerary, which coincides with the exhibition that CaixaForum is holding on the architect, aims to reveal the different archaeological styles of this prolific artist by visiting buildings such as the Arnús Bank, the Miquel Fargas House, the Church of Pompeii, or a single-family home situated on the Avinguda Diagonal.

For more information: www.rutadelmodernisme.com

The Centre Pompidou presents "Edvard Munch, l'oeil moderne" [Edvard Munch, the modern eye], a collection never-seen-before in France of around eighty paintings, thirty artworks done on paper, fifty photographs and a film. Showing the work of the famous Norwegian painter (1853-1944) in a different light, this exhibition shows how much the artist's curiosity for all of the forms of representation of his era fuelled his inspiration and his work. His experience of photography, cinema, his readings of the illustrated press and even his work for the theatre profoundly influenced his work, the brilliant modernity of which the exhibition reveals.

Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas y todo el esplendor del París del comienzo del siglo XX llegan a Caixaforum a través del Sterling and Francince Clark Arte Institute.
La exposición reúne un conjunto excepcional de pintura francesa del siglo xix y comienzos del xx, procedente de la colección de Sterling and Francine Clark.

The Belvedere owns the world´s largest collection of paintings by Gustav Klimt. In autumn 2011, it will present this world-famous artist together with the congenial architect and designer Josef Hoffmann. Their intense collaboration, such in the Beethoven Exhibition at the Vienna Secession (1902) and the Stoclet Palace in Brussels (1905-12), set new standards in Europe when it comes to the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Numerous works, such as Klimt´s Portrait of Fritza Riedler, which clearly reflects Hoffmann´s characteristic hand, attest to the two pioneers´ mutual influence, which in this comprehensive exhibition is also explored with regard to their involvement in the Wiener Werkstätte.

The Historical Conclave of the Hospital de Sant Pau is hosting a new exhibition covering some of the most important historical moments of the construction of the Modernista complex. It also focuses on the restoration project which is currently underway. You can visit the exhibition by following the guided routes of "Sant Pau en obres" (Saint Paul Under Construction) which are offered every morning from Monday to Sunday.

The collection of snapshots comprise a selection of historical photographs and diverse reproductions of the original plans which Domènech i Montaner drew up by hand in the early 20th century. In this way, visitors can get an idea of the vast number of studies and trials the architect produced when designing the buildings in the Conclave while appreciating the ornamental elements that have made Sant Pau a world reference in Modernisme.

These photos illustrate the evolution the Conclave has undergone over the years and how the city´s physiognomy has also changed, especially the neighbourhoods of Guinardó and Sagrada Família.

The last part of the exhibition centres on the evolution of the renovation project. Among other aspects, it shows the changes that two of the pavilions have experienced, those that have now been fully renovated: Santa Apol·lònia (St Apollonia) and Sant Jordi (St George).You can also get a close-up view of life-size reproductions of Sant Pau´s most significant decorative elements: rosettes, dosserets, pinnacles and glazed-tile roofs. Furthermore, several information panels explain the laborious tasks being undertaken by artisans at work on Sant Pau to restore all these stone and pottery pieces, along with the windows and mosaics.

The Sant Pau International Project

The renovation work enables the recovery of Sant Pau´s heritage and artistic value. It opens the site to the city, preparing it to become a knowledge centre of reference worldwide, where diverse international, national and local institutions can work jointly to provide an answer to the challenges of the 20th century. Education, health and sustainability will be the main spheres of action, with a geographic space as its preferential area of reference: the Mediterranean.

The project to rehabilitate the Historical Conclave of Sant Pau has a budget of 105 million euros, financed mainly by contributions from the Operating Programme of the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for Catalonia 2007-2013, the Spanish government, the Government of Catalonia, local administrations and the Fundació Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau.

Extension of the guided visit routes

The photo exhibition forms part of the "Sant Pau en obres" guided visits, included in the Barcelona Modernisme Route which the Institut del Paisatge Urbà (Urban Landscape Institute) at the Barcelona City Council is organising.

These guided visits start at the Sant Jordi Pavilion, which is now fully restored. Since late July, visitors have also been able to stroll through one section of the kilometre of tunnels where the new exhibition is installed.

Thanks to the opening of this new tourist route, visitors also take a short stroll down the Conclave´s central avenue, where they can check on the progress of the renovation work on the Central Pavilion (former operating theatres) and the Administration Pavilion, the most important building in Domènech i Montaner´s architectural conclave.

The guided visit finalises with a look at the Conclave church, the Portal de Santa Marta, the exterior of the Convent and the Sant Rafael Pavilion, in which visitors can appreciate its original interior space.

For further information about opening times and prices: www.rutadelmodernisme.com