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David Hockney X Marc Fumaroli X Tim Walker Alex Gross X The 19 th century in the Prado X Carlos D. Bustos

Opalka self portraits, 1965

THE G RAZYNA K ULCZYK

COLECCTION

Everybody is Nobody for Somebody Federico Echevarría

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ith the evocative title, “Everybody is nobody for somebody”, the Foundation Banco Santander presents an exhibition in line with its commitment to render international contemporary art from great private collections, accessible. This exhibition is a magnificent selection of works from the collection created by Grazyna Kulczyk with works produced by prominent artists working in Poland between 1945 and 1989 in interactions with others executed by renowned international artists like Sam Francis and Donald Judd from the USA, Annette

Yellow Room, 1970, Teresa Pagoswska 22

Imagined States and Desires. A Balkan Journey, 2003

VANESSA WINSHIP Ana Rimblas Mira

I lived and worked in the region of the Balkans, Turkey and the Caucasus for more than a decade. My work focuses on the junction between chronicle and fiction, exploring ideas around concepts of borders, land, memory, desire, identity and history. I am interested in the telling of history, and in notions around periphery and edge. For me photography is a process of literacy, a journey of understanding Vanessa Winship

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he MAPFRE Foundation launches its new gallery (located on Calle BĂĄrbara de Braganza 13, at the corner of Paseo de Recoletos, opposite the National Library, that is in the Prado-Recoletos axis, where the main cultural institutions in Madrid are locate) with an exceptional retrospective exhibition of the work of British photographer Vanessa Winship. The exhibition offers a journey through the different series that compose her work, from those first series dedicated to the Balkans to her most recent works, realized in

AlmerĂ­a in 2014, and produced by the MAPFRE Foundation which are presented for the first time on the occasion of this exhibition, organized around a chronological journey through each of the series that make up her work through a selection of 188 photographs.

From the decade of the nineties, Vanessa Winship has worked in zones which, in the collective imaginary, are associated with unsteadiness and the darkness of a recent past as well as the volatility of borders and identities.

Between 1999 and 2003, during the war in 26

Tempus Fugit - I, 2011

CARLOS DĂ?EZ BUSTOS A few steps beyond the reality

JesĂşs Tablate Miquis

Persevering peacefully on the path classical culture paved for us.

Continuing in the effort to create, with all the means at our disposal, respecting the art of the past and learning to evolve, making use of the great culture that through the centuries of history has been perfected by a number of geniuses, and serving it as well, but also delving into our own natural sensitivity.

Carlos takes us in a literate, special and genuine world, full of perfection and virtuosity of a great artist.

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Koshimaki - Osen (detail), 2003

ALEX GROSS Perverted Art Joaqu铆n Lled贸

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ust like every object has its shadow and is reflected, each era has its own fantasy universe. At the heart of our era, which is the fruit of glorious decades of pop culture, reigns a magic generated in the test-tubes and alembics of the psychedelic

revolution, without using of course, concoctions of the witches and diabolical elixirs. A faithful mirror of trends that have shaken our time, that is, radically modern, surprising Alex Gross is also, however, the inheritor of a long tradition.

He uses customary and everyday objects to create 44

Magical thinking, Xiao Wen in Lanvin, 2011 New York

THE MAGIC SCENE THE GREAT TIM WALKER Ana Rimblas Mira

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y God! What can I say about the great Tim Walker? What can I say about this exceptional magician, who created imaginative and thrilling photographs? What he does is purely creative. Each one of his photographs is full of

magic. In the photographs, the technique, which is always masterly, is as important as his bold and marvelous mise-en-scène.

What he does is to create images of tales for adults; surrealist and extravagant tales. Very British as he is, Walker is a storyteller of worlds 66