Archaeology, photography, comics and film are among the proposals that will travel through 80 cities in Spain and Portugal
This Wednesday, the Foundation »la Caixa» presented its proposals for the 2022-2023 season: 30 exhibitions in the CaixaForum centers and in the Cosmo Caixa Science Museum, and 8 traveling exhibitions that will explore the Spanish and Portuguese geography. There are a dozen premieres of the series of titles. The program invites the public to travel to the heart of archaeology, art, science, photography, comics and cinema with proposals in collaboration with major international institutions, such as the British Museum, the London Science Museum and the Museum of Science of Boston.
Notable novelties include a scientific approach to creating Pixar characters, a journey through all facets of 19th-century portraiture with the Prado National Museum, a journey through the history of experimental photography with the Center Pompidou, a tour of the most cinematographic and historical spies with La Cinémathèque Française and a visit to the private properties of great artists in the »contemporary art collection of the La Caixa Foundation».
CaixaForum Madrid, which will host scientific exhibitions for the first time, opens the season with an exhibition dedicated to the brilliant inventor Nikola Tesla. Aiming to further explore the links between art and science, the season includes an exhibit of National Geographic photographs devoted to color at the CosmoCaixa Science Museum and another touring exhibit on the beauty of the nanocosm.
On the other hand, three first-class initiatives will be launched in a season characterized by the combination of technology and culture with the arrival of the new digital platform CaixaForum+, the interactive guide of the Universe Hall of the CosmoCaixa Science Museum and the Vertical Forest of Caixa Forum Barcelona.
The deputy general director of the »la Caixa» Foundation, Elisa Durán, and the company director of the Ministry of Culture and Science of the »la Caixa» Foundation, Ignasi Miró, were responsible for presenting the institution’s cultural program for the new course, an event also attended by the company’s Director of Education and Marketing, Xavier Bertolín, and the directors of the CaixaForum centers and the CosmoCaixa Science Museum. The new season will run under the motto ‘We believe in culture. We grow in culture’, to offer audiences a journey into the heart of the worlds of archaeology, art, science, photography, comics and cinema.
The 30 exhibitions, 4,000 activities and 8 shows will travel to more than 80 cities in Spain and Portugal.
The main novelties of the season are set out in 10 exhibition premieres open to multiple forms of artistic expression through film, photography or music. 5 of these are carried out in collaboration with major national and international institutions. On the other hand, three first-class cultural initiatives are launched: the launch of the new digital platform CaixaForum+, the interactive guide to the Universe Room and the Flooded Forest of the CosmoCaixa Science Museum and the Vertical Forest of CaixaForum Barcelona.
In terms of exhibition premieres, ‘The Century of the Portrait’ stands out. The picture of 19th century society, with great works from the Prado National Museum. CaixaForum Barcelona premieres this exhibition, the first dedicated to 19th century portraiture in Spain and a journey through time to explore all facets of portraiture: from the portrait as a symbol of power to the portrait as a social phenomenon. The exhibition includes works by Francisco de Goya, Vicente López, Federico de Madrazo, Eduardo Rosales, Ignacio Pinazo, Joaquín Sorolla and Ignacio Zuloaga.
The new season will also allow us to get closer to the memorable characters designed by Pixar. Behind the characters of our favorite animated films is a long process of mixing creativity with technology, engineering, art and mathematics in an indispensable way, as The Science of Pixar tells. This exhibition, which will premiere in Barcelona at the CosmoCaixa Science Museum, was developed by the Boston Science Museum in collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios and is eminently interactive. The exhibit allows visitors to move classic Pixar figures, project brightness and shadows, and work on creating 3D virtual worlds.
Without leaving cinema behind, there will be another international collaboration with La Cinémathèque Française. CaixaForum Madrid will host Top Secret. Film and Espionage, which analyzes the fertile relationship between these two areas, emphasizing the importance of iconic characters from the seventh art as well as other myths of our contemporary history. With a chronological and thematic journey, the exhibition breaks through espionage in the history of cinema in search of interfaces between the acting profession and the figure of the spy (the disguise, the concealment, the game); between fiction and historical fact; between the props and the gadgets and the technology deployed by the real agents of the intelligence services.
The exhibition, which seeks a mirror game between film directors and spies, as well as recorders and “forgers” of the world, will unfold a complete panorama of this fascinating universe through a wide range of films, series and objects – such as some from the KGB – from public and private collections, as well as drawings, illustrations and works of contemporary art. The protagonists are great real and fictional spies, from Mata Hari and Carrie Mathison to James Bond and Edward Snowden, with a special focus on female spies, who are considered the great forgotten.
Photography will also play the leading role this season with three premieres. CaixaForum Madrid and CaixaForum Barcelona will host the new Expanded Visions exhibition. Photography and experiments as a result of the third collaboration with the Center Pompidou. The exhibition covers the history of experimental photography from the early 20th century to the present day through more than 260 works. The project proposes a reading of the experimental photographic movement through the dialogue between historical and contemporary works, and presents the first photographic experiments of the famous William Klein.
On the other hand, The Colors of the World will arrive at the CosmoCaixa Science Museum and at CaixaForum Zaragoza, before traveling outside their own centers to admire precious photographs by National Geographic authors. They all reflect in their images the wide range of blue, orange, green, red and white that make up our planet.
Nanocosm by Michael Benson. The reality hidden from the human eye will give visitors to the CosmoCaixa Science Museum a new look at the hidden beauty of our planet’s flora and fauna, which can only be seen thanks to the use of the latest technologies to visualize microscopic life . With his photography, filmmaker, artist and writer Michael Benson will transport the viewer into a fascinating nanoscopic universe beyond what the human eye can see.
Source: La Verdad
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