Picasso and Modern British Art is the first exhibition to explore Picasso’s lifelong connections with this country. This major show will examine Picasso’s evolving critical reputation here and British artists’ responses to his work, demonstrating the depth of British engagement with Picasso and his art.
Spanish music and musicians feature in a series of recitals to take place at the Foundling Museum. Now in its 7th year at the Foundling Museum, the New London Orchestra’s ‘Young Performers Concert Series’ showcases some of the the UK’s most promising young Spanish classical recitalists.
'Going Back to Reality: Portraying Pablo Picasso on the Canvas in Motion' presents a programme of which reveals the lesser known aspects of the Spanish artist’s life and highlights all the essential elements that have been distilled from his works influencing later generations of visual artists, such as the British artists David Hockney and Henry Moore.
Miró: Sculptor represents the first major UK exhibition of sculpture by the Spanish artist, one of Europe's most important 20th century creator.
Image: Joan Miró, Oiseau Lunaire 1846
© Successió Miró/ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2012
Photo Galerie Lelong
Courtesy of YSP
This exhibition features several important figurative sculptures which were originally intended to be part of Muñoz’s celebrated installation Double Bind (2001) at Tate Modern.
Ana Guilarte’s first solo exhibition in London features her new abstract works, mainly acrylic on canvas, a collection of 17 new paintings entitled Breakthrough.
Nudity of Reason is the exhibition title for the first solo show in London by Spanish plastic artist Francisco José Jiménez Domínguez. This exhibition showcases a selection of paintings with uniform style, dull colours, rich textures and sensual nudes subject.
Reconstructed with archival discoveries and research in Spanish collections, 'The English Prize' presents 140 objects including paintings, drawings, sculptures, books and maps from the Westmorland, an armed merchant ship sailing from Livorno to London in January 1779.
Cameo, a finalist piece of The Place Prize 2011, is a dance trio inspired by the work of film director Alfred Hitchcock and plays with the narrative conventions in suspense cinema.
It has been argued that language represents a fundamentally male view of the world and assumes the male as the norm, thus contributing to the invisibility of women. Is language sexist? How are sexism and the male viewpoint expressed in Spanish and English? These and other matters related to sexism in language will be debated in this session.
Mario Vargas Llosa’s latest novel, The Dream of the Celt, will be the starting point for Efraín Kristal and John King in order to offer an overview of Vargas Llosa’s career as a public intellectual and as one of the foremost novelists of our time.
Spanish young classical theatre company Rakatá performs the Shakespeare's historical drama Henry VIII as part of Globe to Globe, an initiative of the World Shakespeare Festival for the London 2012 Festival.
A Catalan Weekend in London is a two days event showcasing new trends in the performing arts, cinema and music from Catalonia, providing an opportunity to explore this culture.
The programme of events includes the film screening of the documentary Barcelona Abans que el temps ho eborri by Mireia Ros, the theatre show You & Me, live music by Nubla and a panel debate about Catalan culture and identity.
Valldosera's first solo exhibition in the UK will include two of her major existing installations, in which domestic objects are animated in the space through the use of light and filmic devices and newly commissioned works.
The Spanish chef and author of 'Seasonal Spanish Food', José Pizarro, and food-writer and author of 'The Food of Spain', Claudia Roden will celebrate one of the great gastronomic cultures of the world at Hay Festival.
Spanish and English company Teatro Entre Escombros presents The Mole And The Worm; an underground tale, a work by Welsh playwright Lowri Jenkins and directed by William Oldroyd.
PINTA is a fair of Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art. Over fifty art galleries from the Americas and Europe will be showcasing a range of works by established and emerging Latin American artists. Among them there will be eight Spanish galleries from Barcelona, Madrid, Seville and Valencia.
The Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco Peña will visit London this summer with a special programme of collaborations.
This is an opportunity to attend not only a master flamenco performance but also a combination of the Spanish art with African soul music and the classic style of a choir, with the participation of Neo Muyanga, Nguni Choir and the South Bank Centre Choir.
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