Magritte, Turner, Miró and Carracci, exhibition jewels in Barcelona for 2022

Exhibitions on Magritte, Turner, the collector Miró, Carracci and the Picasso of the blue period stand out in the artistic offer of 2022 in the museums of Barcelona, ​​affected at the beginning of the year by the reduction in their capacity due to the sixth wave of the pandemic

Caixaforum Barcelona will begin its new season in February with a monographic exhibition, "La máquina Magritte", which will exhibit more than 65 paintings until June, along with a selection of photographs and films by the artist.

In the same space, starting in July, an exhibition will address the exchanges and influences that occur between cinema and fashion under the particular gaze of Jean Paul Gaultier, co-curator and artistic director of the exhibition, who has selected posters , photos and fragments of films that reflect this symbiosis, in addition to emphasizing issues such as emancipation movements, especially women's, and how they are reflected in the fashion and filmography of their time.

In collaboration with the Tate in London, in May the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) will present an exhibition on William Turner and, in parallel, will display a selection of works by 19th-century Catalan artists who belong to to the collection of the Barcelona museum center.

Both exhibitions will evoke the sensitivity of the artists towards nature and will emphasize the plastic values ​​of the landscape genre, especially the atmospheric effects, focusing on the environmental issue.

The collaboration between the MNAC, the Museo del Prado and the Palazzo Barberini in Rome will make it possible to bring together, starting in June, for the first time since its uprooting and dispersal, the paintings that Anibale Carracci made for the Herrera Chapel in Rome, an exhibition which was scheduled for 2020, but was postponed due to the pandemic.

The Miró Foundation will begin its programming in spring with "Miró. The most intimate legacy", which reconstructs Joan Miró's role as a collector through the works that he kept or gave to his family, which, in turn, he ceded or deposited them in the center in accordance with the artist's will to give a collection to Barcelona.

The Picasso Museum in Barcelona, ​​which currently has an exhibition dedicated to the painter's sister, Lola Ruiz Picasso, will exhibit the result of the technical studies of the works from its collection from the artist's blue period starting in April.

This exhibition, curated by Reyes Jiménez, head of the Preventive Conservation and Restoration service, examines different aspects of the works, from the creative process, the constituent materials and the distribution of the color layers to the contextualization and interrelation between works from the same period or from previous periods, in the case of reused fabrics, going through conservation strategies.

The Mapfre Foundation's programming includes an exhibition by Lee Friedlander, whose photographs will be exhibited in Space 1 of the KBr center between February and May.

At the same time, in Space 2 of the center, it will be accompanied by an exhibition with works by Adolf Mas, who, in addition to creating a very important archive, was a prominent photographer in Barcelona at the beginning of the 20th century.

Without abandoning photography, the Foto Colectania Foundation will show from March the work of the photographer Martín Chambi and his contemporaries, with works from the Jan Mulder collection.

Of indigenous origin, Chambi (Coaza, 1891-Cuzco, 1973), who was a turning point in Latin American photography in the first half of the 20th century, dedicated a large part of his life to photographing the Peruvian Andes, claiming the pre-Hispanic past through images of Inca ruins and the portrait of the life of Andean communities.

MACBA will open in April with an anthology that will cover the entire career of Teresa Lanceta from the 1970s to today and that will include a wide selection of her tapestries, canvases, paintings, drawings, writings and videos, as well as her own artist has invited other authors to carry out different collaborations that will be shown in the exhibition.

Lanceta (Barcelona, ​​1951) made the decision to weave as a means of artistic expression in the 1970s, forcing the limits of understanding what is or is not considered art.

Starting in July, MACBA will also present the first monographic exhibition in Spain of the work of the Brazilian artist Cinthia Marcelle, which denotes her constant concern for the dynamics of the community and the poetics of accumulation, multiplication and repetition.

The main exhibition of the Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona will be "Brain(s)", a joint project with Fundación Telefónica and the Wellcome Collection that will combine the gaze of contemporary artists with original drawings by Santiago Ramón y Cajal, first editions by René Descartes, inventions by visionary scientists such as Leonardo Torres Quevedo or José Manuel Rodríguez Delgado, comics and movies, and projects from leading scientific research centers.

Joseph Oliva