Collections and Exhibitions in the New Season-.
Once finished the works of reform and enlargement the Museum of Fine Art Bilbao has re-opened its facilities to the public This re-opening comes through a sample of works that gives us the hint of the new stage that from now on is opened.
First,
with "Collection 01" a new proposal is made about the permanent
collection, the basic works of the Museum. Secondly "Gaur, Hemen eta Orain"
(Today, Here and Now), an attractive title for a review of the art made by
artists in the Basque Country at the moment. And, finally "Impresionist
Women", it is itself a monographic about both impressionist paintings and
female artists.
The permanent collection remains as the basis of the Museum and around it, turns the Program with activities. The people responsible for the Museum have committed themselves to a partial update each year, so that part of the least known works, kept in the store of the Museum, can be shown in the exhibition rooms, having the Museum a space for innovation, reserving also place to the new adquisitions that may be added.
But, the strongest "bet" of the Museum, and positive for being brave and risky, whose results will come along with the response of the public itself. It constitutes a game between the work of historical Museum and current work: avant-garde.
Nowadays,
the visitor can find, for example, a sculpture in iron by Julio González
sorrounded by Zurbaran works; or "San Sebastian" by Ribera next to
"Hierros" (Irons) by Oteiza. Tapies, Bacon with a tent, with its light.
Chillida sorrounded by goldsmith/silversmith works by Durrio... We are said, it
is an "open and transhistoric" view, and, in fact, it is. And
difficult. Well, we will see, to which extent the public allows himself to be
educated.
At the end of the corridor, "The new Artists" (until 7th April 2002), a sort of avant-garde in the "Basque Art". It is no worth arguing about if all of them are in here or if the ones that are, are representative...The people in charge have taken the decision: Guadalupe Echevarría, director of the School of Fine Arts in Burdeaux, and Bartomeu Marí, director of the Center of Contemporary Art Witte de With in Rotterdam.
"Gaur,
Hemen, Orain" assembles works by 22 artists: entertaining, provocative,
sexy, painful artists, ... One may choose among them, Ibon Aranberri, Juan
Aizpitarte, Gema Intxausti, Luis Moraza, Darío Urzay or Azucena Vieites, etc?
Finally, , "Impresionist Women. The Other Look" is the title of the monographic exhibition after the "Paris likes" and now it arrives in Bilbao to show us the works by Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), Mary Bracquemond (1840-1916), Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) and Eva Gonzàles (1849-1893). Seventy works that start emphasizing a principal work belonging to the collection of the Museum itself: "Woman sat with a baby on her arms" by Marie Cassat,
According
to Xabier Bray: "Each one was related, somehow, to the debates of that
time, but they never formed a group itself,so it cannot be considered as a
proper "movement" of female painters" Society was still
relegating the woman to a definite role, even in the vanguard, and their themes
reflect that restrictive atmosphere they had to live in even sharing forms and
techniques, skills, with the male "teachers"of that time: Morisot had
a professional relationship with Manet and Renoir; Gonzàles was a pupil of
Manet: Cassat worked with Degas; whereas Bracquemond shared in some moments
hours on figures with Monet. As a reference, the exhibition contains portraits
done to the artists by some of their teachers as Degas or Manet.
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Translated by Amy
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