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<title>Las Obras de Darwin' (Darwin’s work in Spain) , 10/07/2009 - 01/01/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid | Exhibition about the life and work of the English naturalist Charles Darwin on the bicentenary of his birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his theory on 'The Origin of Species'. The show focuses on the publication of his work in Spain. The first translation of Darwin’s complete ‘Origin of Species’ was published in 1877, 28 years after its first publication in England. The ideas from Darwin's evolution arrived in Spain late due to the great influence of the most uncompromising Catholic sectors on Government politics. This had a negative impact on freedom of teaching and promoted strict official censorship. The historical period experienced by the country during the last years of Isabel II's reign hindered the circulation of printed materials that could upset the prevailing political status. The dissemination of Darwin's theory of evolution didn't begin until public freedom was promoted by democratic governments during the Sexenio Revol!
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<title>Las Obras de Darwin' (Darwins work in Spain) , 31/07/2009 - 01/01/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Madrid | Exhibition about the life and work of the English naturalist Charles Darwin on the bicentenary of his birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his theory on 'The Origin of Species'. The show focuses on the publication of his work in Spain. The first translation of Darwins complete Origin of Species was published in 1877, 28 years after its first publication in England. The ideas from Darwin's evolution arrived in Spain late due to the great influence of the most uncompromising Catholic sectors on Government politics. This had a negative impact on freedom of teaching and promoted strict official censorship. The historical period experienced by the country during the last years of Isabel II's reign hindered the circulation of printed materials that could upset the prevailing political status. The dissemination of Darwin's theory of evolution didn't begin until public freedom was promoted by democratic governments during the Sexenio Revolucionario. ]]></description>
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<title>David Maljkovic , 04/09/2009 - 18/01/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reine Sofia, Madrid | Exhibition of the work of the Croatian artist David Maljkovic, one of the most important figures in Croatia’s contemporary art scene. Maljkovic ‘s work focuses on collective memory and amnesia, portraying the transition from communism to capitalism in recent Croatian history. Mixing videos, drawings and objects, his installations redirect our gaze towards abandoned buildings and obsolete or already demolished architectures. While monuments embody the promise for a better future, they also speak to melancholy for a contradictory reality, reflected in these buildings’ current state. As a result the artist constructs a visual discourse on the consequences of failed utopias. ]]></description>
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<title>From Private to Public: Collections at the Guggenheim, 22/09/2009 - 01/10/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao | Exhibition about the collection of the Guggenheim Museum that started in 1937, when Solomon R. Guggenheim established a foundation with the goal of opening a museum to publicly exhibit and preserve his holdings of modern art. Since then, the museum&amp;amp;rsquo;s founding collection has been enhanced through major gifts and purchases from pioneering individuals who share Guggenheim&amp;amp;rsquo;s spirit. These acquisitions include eminent gallery director Karl Nierendorf&amp;amp;rsquo;s inventory of German Expressionist and early Abstract Expressionist art; Solomon&amp;amp;rsquo;s niece Peggy Guggenheim&amp;amp;rsquo;s collection of abstract and Surrealist painting and sculpture; Justin K. Thannhauser&amp;amp;rsquo;s array of Impressionist, Post- Impressionist, and early modern masterpieces; and important works from the estates of visionaries Hilla Rebay and Katherine S. Dreier.]]></description>
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<title>Modernologies , 22/09/2009 - 17/01/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona | Exhibition about universal language of modern art, ever since art no longer stood in a direct functional relationship to its former patrons, the Church and the aristocracy, but instead became committed to the ideology of autonomy. Industrialization and technology, on the principles of human rights and democracy, on the right to self-determination, on the principle of education for all, on secularisation and Enlightenment philosophy, and above all on the underlying notion of progress and continual development, aspired to form a universal language. The arts were accordingly required to portray modern life not only in adequate forms but also with analogous contents as part of this movement, in order to reflect the utopian potential of modernity but also the destructive and regressive sides of revolution and upheaval. Modernism attempted to illustrate the experiences and ramifications of modernity in artistic forms – and in undertaking this project it was almost post-modern. ]]></description>
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<title>Elegance and Minimalism Imperial Chinese Porcelain from the Baur Collections in Geneva , 25/09/2009 - 30/01/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Museo de Ceramica, Barcelona | Exhibition of a selection ceramics from the collection of the Swiss collector Alfred Baur (1865-1951). A tireless worker, businessman and traveller, Baur collected some 7,000 Asian pieces from 1907 to 1947. Advised by the Japanese art dealer Kumasaku Tomita, he began his Chinese porcelain collection, showing a remarkable artistic knowledge that paired elegance and simplicity with sumptuousness. Shortly before his death, Baur acquired a mansion in Geneva’s residential district for the purpose of exhibiting his oriental antiques, now Museum of Far Eastern Art. Porcelain was first brought to Europe in the 14th century on the caravans of the Silk Route and throughout the 18th century it was known as ‘white gold’. Contemporary ceramicists, devotees of Orientalism confirm the enduring relevance of Chinese Imperial porcelain today. ]]></description>
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<title>Fantin-Latour 1836-1904 , 29/09/2009 - 10/01/2010</title>
<link>http://www.expatica.com/es/whats-on/event/Fantin-Latour-1836-1904.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid | Retrospective of the work of the French painter Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) who is best known for his intricate still life paintings and captivating group portraits of his family and friends in Paris. On show are 70 works completed by Fantin-Latour between 1836 and 1904. The exhibition is divided into ten sections, which cover different phases of the artist's career from his early self-portraits to simplistic floral compositions dating to the late-19th century onwards. ]]></description>
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<title>Dance of Colours. Nijinsky's Eye and Abstraction , 17/10/2009 - 20/12/2009</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid | First exhibition of the paintings, drawings and gouaches by the Russian dancer and choreographer Vaslaw Nijinsky (1889-1950) created in 1918 and 1919, marking the centenary of the Ballets Russes’ debut in Paris. Nijinsky’s work is presented in the context of modern art in Paris after 1910 and juxtaposed with important paintings by the Russian artists Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Alexandra Exter, Vladimir Baranov-Rossiné, Léopold Survage and the Czech painter Frantisek Kupka. The exhibition offers an entirely new perspective on the origins of abstraction from dance. Furthermore the historic personality of Nijinsky, comes alive in a separate section of the exhibition in photographs, posters, paintings and sculptures by leading artists of Nijinsky’s time, on loan from the private collection of John Neumeier. ]]></description>
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<title>The Young Murillo , 19/10/2009 - 17/01/2010</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao , Bilbao | Exhibition presenting  about fifty works by the young Spanish Baroque painter Bartelome Esteban Murillo (1617-82) from a crucial period in his career. The works on show are selected from the collections of both Bilbao and Seville Fine Arts Museums, such as ‘St. Peter Weeping’ (c.1650-55) and ‘St. Lesmes’ (c. 1655) in Bilbao, and ‘St Francis’ (c.1645-50) and ‘San Jerome’ (c. 1665-75) in Seville. Around 1640 Murillo achieved his first artistic successes, launching a career in the ascendant. During this early period Murillo produced an oeuvre marked by a taste for tenebrism and naturalism, a reflection of the durable influence of masters from the previous generation, like Zurbarán and Ribera, particularly in the way he plays with the light and dark and his close observation of his subject. ]]></description>
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<title>Tears of Eros, 20/10/2009 - 31/01/2010</title>
<link>http://www.expatica.com/es/whats-on/event/Tears-of-Eros.html</link>
<description><![CDATA[Museo  Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid | Exhibition about the close relationship between sexual desire (Eros) and the death instinct (Thanatos) in visual arts. The title is taken from that of Georges Bataille&amp;amp;rsquo;s book: Les larmes d&amp;amp;rsquo;Eros, and the show also incorporates some of Bataille&amp;amp;rsquo;s ideas on eroticism: the need for beauty, temptation as prohibition and transgression, and the parallels between the erotic and religious sacrifice. The exhibition focuses primarily on 19th-century European painting and sculpture, including the work of Canova, Ingres, Delacroix, Millais, Moreau and Rodin, but also looks back to earlier periods, in particular the Baroque with Rubens and Bernini. In addition it looks at later art, for example, the presence of 19th-century erotic themes in Surrealism and its wake.]]></description>
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