Bilbao,
The still director of the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum before the landing of Miren Arzalluz, Juan Ignacio Vidarte, and the curatorial team of this center, composed of Lekha Hileman Waitoller, Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães, Marta Blàvia and Manuel Cirauqui, have anticipated the eleven exhibitions that we can Visit there in 2025, mostly starring contemporary authors (until February and March, respectively, we can still approach those dedicated to Hilma AF Klint and Paul Pfeiffer).
The artistic programming of Guggenheim this year will begin in mid -February by “Tarsila do Amaral. Painting modern Brazil ”, an anthology that will analyze its vast production, from the twenties to sixties. He will arrive after his passage through the Parisian Musémbourg and will delve into his attention to the indigenous imaginary and popular culture and in his observation, also, of the modernizing dynamics of his country. On horseback between São Paulo and Paris, he initially exercised as a bridge between the avant -garde of the two capitals, sifting his purely Brazilian iconography from the filter of Cubism and primitivism, and then, from the thirties, accompanying the deep social and political transformations Latin American.
Also in February the exhibition “Masterpieces on Budapest paper” will be inaugurated, a selection of drawings and engravings that will cover seven centuries and that come from the funds of the Museum of Fine Arts of the Hungarian capital. There will be a delicate sketches to detailed studies for large format compositions, dated from 1400 to the present; The objective of the sample will be to emphasize the importance of this technique as Language formin expression of Richard Serra; as a means of expression of complex ideas. Usually these pieces in their center of origin, given their fragility, can only be contemplated in temporary exhibitions or publications.
In spring it will begin In situa cycle that will program contemporary authors created expressly for the spaces of Guggenheim, in order to activate their architecture or harmonize with the peculiar characteristics of the galleries of the Gehry building. The first of the participants will be the young Turkish creator Refik Anadol, video artist and pioneer of reflection on aesthetics that can generate artificial intelligence; It will be followed by Mark Leckey at the end of autumn, with an exhibition that will account for the multiplicity of sources that are integrated into their work, including sound, sculpture and performance.
Since April, he awaits us in Bilbao “Helen Frankenthaler: painting without rules”, which will study the approach with which this American artist approached the painting from about thirty works carried out between 1953 and 2002, which will be related to canvases and sculptures created For other contemporary authors, such as Pollock, Rothko, Noland, Motherwell or Morris Louis. Soaking and staining, Frankenthaler devised suggestive ties between space, color and shape: applied diluted paint to huge fabrics without printing arranged in the floor of his workshop, and did so many times pouring it directly from the cube, letting it extend and mix in a way natural. Their compositions stand out for their veiled and overlays transitions and this project is organized together with the Palazzo Strozzi Florentino and the New York Foundation of the painter.
From June we can contemplate in the Guggenheim the recent production of Barbara Kruger, in a montage that will accentuate its involvement and expertise when working in different architectural contexts through specific location facilities that dive to the public in environments full of texts. Language is the axis of their creations: vinyl, multichannel video works and sound landscapes that can offer new readings in the digital age.
Arrived at autumn, the abstract forms and optical illusions of Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese creator who linked to their abstraction and figuration will be in the museum. The personal of his language will be highlighted, beyond the informal trace, but the creative networks of which he participated in Paris and Rio de Janeiro will also be explored. And in December “Earth Arts” will be presented, a rereading of the environment -oriented art of the last decades; Vito Acconci and Sky Hopinka will pass through the Film & Video room.
