Winter Art Shows in Madrid

The ARCO Art Fair is coming up this month (February 13-17th), and with it there are some interesting shows in town, particularly at the Reina Sofía Museum of Contemporary Art.

Highlights so far:


Robert Adams, The Place We Live
Photographer of the American West
Reina Sofia Museum
January 16 - May 20

Print and web images can little convey the engraving-like detail and printing of these intimate, classic photos, with ideas from oriental art and Robert Frank but forged into something strong and personal.

Mira Schendel. Untitled, from the series Objetos gráficos.
1973. Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection

Concrete Invention: Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
Geometric abstraction from South America
Reina Sofia Museum
January 23 - September 16

Follows closely on the 2011 show on the same subject at the Juan March Foundation, Cold America, but this is a different private collection. Museum Director Manuel Borja-Villel told me he is forging new strategic alliances with international private patrons, especially in South America, and this is one of the results.


Cristina Iglesias: Metonymy
Reina Sofia Museum
February 6- March 13

Link: Fietta Jarque interviews Cristina Iglesias in Babelia, El Pais. January 26, 2012



Miguel Barceló
Galería Elvira González
January 26 - March 27

Link: Barceló interviewed in El País, January 27, 2013