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We are pleased to share the newest exhibition in Fundación MAPFRE regarding Russian avant-garde during the 20th Century. The exhibition From Chagall to Malevich: Art in Revolution brings together more than 90 works and 24 publications by a wide range of artists who, during the early decades of the 20th century, advanced towards modern art in a manner totally unprecedented in Russia up to that date. Jean-Louis Prat, the exhibition’s curator, summarises the problematic status of artists in that context: “It was not the Revolution that produced the avant-gardes and modern art and it could even be asked if it gave any thought to them. Was it, however, of interest to the men and women whose overriding desire was to change the regime and who dreamed of freedom? It was in fact the artists who emerged as revolutionaries prior to the Revolution, convinced that it would fulfil their hopes and thus sure of what the Revolution itself expected of them. This misunderstanding led on to a disappointment that should also be considered a significant factor in the formulation of an almost definitive abstract language.” You can download here the images attached. Kazemir Malevich Suprematism, 1915-16 © The Krasnodar Regional Art Museum named after F. A. Kovalenko, provided with assistance from the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO Please note that the content includes access to a photograph gallery, and that we attach, too, an electronic press kit about the exhibition. If you need any further information, the team is at your disposal. Please make contact with: Alejandra Fernández. +34 910 29 93 30 alejandra@fundacionmapfre.org  Marina Calvo. +34 581 94 00 clmarin@mapfre.com

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2018

BRASSAÏ
INTRODUCTION
Fundación MAPFRE is launching its 2018 exhibition programme in Barcelona with the
exhibition Brassaï, a comprehensive survey of the career of this celebrated Hungarian-born
French photographer whose work helped to define the spirit of Paris in the 1930s.
Brassaï was one of the most important of the group of European and American photographers
whose work in the inter-war years greatly enriched photography’s potential as a form of
artistic expression.
The artist began to take photographs in 1929 or 1930, maintaining an intense level of activity
throughout the 1930s. Brassaï’s principal subject was Paris, where he settled in 1924,
intending to become a painter. Around the end of World War I the artistic centre of the city
had shifted from Montmartre to Montparnasse where most of the artists, constituting a major
international community, lived like a large family. Brassï was fascinated by the French capital
and later said that he started to take photographs in order to express his passion for the city at
night. Soon, however, he also began to take portraits, nudes, still lifes, images of everyday life
and depictions of picturesque corners of the city and moments captured during the day.
Brassaï’s confidence in the power of blunt, straightforward photography to transform what it
describes, as well as his talent for extracting from ordinary life iconic images of lasting force,
won him an important place among the pioneers of modern photography.
This exhibition offers a survey of the artist’s career through more than 200 works (vintage
photographs, a number of drawings, a sculpture and documentary material) grouped into
twelve thematic sections, of which the two devoted to Paris in the 1930s are the most
important.
Produced by Fundación MAPFRE and curated by Peter Galassi, chief curator of the Department
of Photography at the MoMA, New York, from 1991 to 2011, this is the first retrospective
exhibition on Brassaï to be organised since 2000 (Centre Pompidou) and the first to be held in
Spain since 1993.
The exhibition benefits from the exceptional loan of the Estate Brassaï Succession (Paris) and
other loans from some of the most important institutions and private collections in Europe and
the United States, including: The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston),
The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), The Museum of Modern Art (New York), the
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou (París), The Philadelphia Museum of Art,
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, David Dechman and Michel Mercure, ISelf
Collection (London) and Nicholas and Susan Pritzker.
After being seen in Barcelona the exhibition will move first to Fundación MAPFRE’s Recoletos
exhibition space in Madrid (31 May to 2 September 2018) and following that to The San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art (17 November 2018 to 17 February 2019).
B

ED VAN DER ELSKEN

Fundación MAPFRE Bárbara de Braganza Exhibition
(Madrid, Spain)
Del 25/01/2018 al 20/05/2018

Dates: 25 January to 20 May 2018
Place: C/Bárbara de Braganza, 13. Madrid (Spain)
Curator: Hripsimé Visser, curator of photography at the Stedelijk Museum in
Amsterdam.
Production: The exhibition is organised by the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in
collaboration with the Jeu de Paume and Fundación MAPFRE.
Our particular thanks go to Anneke Hilhorst and Han Hogeland, Nederlands
Fotomuseum Rotterdam, Leiden University Library. Special Collections, Eye Film
Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid Hilversum, Annet
Gelink Gallery Amsterdam, and Paradox Edam.