“Albrecht Dürer: Prints from the Collection of the Städel Museum” at Guggenheim Bilbao
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An Interview with Baroness Thyssen Carmen Cervera of Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum of Art
Baroness Thyssen Carmen Cervera holds one of the world’s most expansive art collections. Exhibited at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, her collection presents a fantastic assortment of impressionist paintings, classics and avant-garde works that demonstrate the vastness of European art. Cervera talked with Art and Living’s Beatriz Bonduel Smith about the finer points of being an art collector.
Art and Living: Baroness, you own one of the best and more international collections of art in the world. What does this imply? How do you take care of it?
Cervera: Absolute dedication. The paintings have to be studied by expert professors specialized in different epochs, artists and topics. Each and every painting has to have its own artistic file, a technical file and a series of slides. The history of the painting has to be traced from the moment when it was painted—if it has been owned by different families or entities, the exhibitions it has been in, the museums, and whether it can be lent or not for temporary exhibitions. We could call this the painting’s official bibliography. Similar to the way in which libraries handle books, we handle unique masterpieces. Also, to preserve the paintings, they must be kept at a certain room temperature and humidity levels must be kept under control. Read the rest of this entry »
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“Max Beckmann: Watercolors and Pastels” at Guggenheim Bilbao
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
The Baltic Sea’s roaring waves create a cacophony of sound as they echo against the vaunted metallic curves of the façade of the Guggenheim Bilbao. While some would say the attraction to visitors here is solely the mellifluously contorted Frank Gehry design, the museum knows it’s also what’s inside that counts. And as visitors cross through the doors of building’s imposing outer shell and experience the museum’s latest exhibition—entitled Max Beckmann: Watercolors and Pastels—this reality becomes more and more clear. As its title suggests, the exhibition features nearly 100 watercolors and pastels by famed 20th century artist Max Beckmann.
Born in 1884 in Leipzig Germany, Beckmann became entwined in the artistic influences of numerous world locales, residing in Amsterdam and Paris before finally making his way to New York. Gaining notoriety as a graphic artist and painter, he worked restlessly for five decades in oeuvres that were both ephemeral and cheerful. Many dub his personal style as expressionist but in all truth his painting had such freedom it is hard to limit his work to a singular term. Read the rest of this entry »
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