Our young favorite Spanish artist, Amaya Bozal, has been rewarded in July with the golden Medal in LXX Exhibition of Plastic Arts of Valdepeñas by his work sculptural Set, in the category sculpture.

Sculptural set consists of three heads, two in bronze with different patinas and one of mud retractario, placed on wooden beams of the XIXth century treated for his conservation.

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To live without destroying is the title of the exhibition of the Spanish contemporary artist Pello Irazu, that you will be able to visit this summer in Koldo Mitxelena of San Sebastian.

What will we be able to see? The sample consists of diverse works: sculptures and constructive drawings, along with photographic spaces, you photograph with painting and sculptures realized in smelting of bronze and aluminum. These works represent the production of last 4 years of the artist.

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Work of Menchu Lamas

Galician contemporary art is the explanatory proposal that you will be able to visit this summer in the Foundation Rosón Arte Contemporáneo (RAC) in Pontevedra.

What will we be able to see? The sample consists of paintings, drawings, photos, sculptures and facilities for contemporary Galician artists in the last 30 years. Between the artists that you will be able to see there are José Freixanes, Menchu Lamas, Antonio Murado, Alberto Datas, Leopoldo Novoa, Francisco Leiro, Vari Carames, Vicente Blanco and Sofía Jack.

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Work of Diego Canogar

Photo: Ricardo Solís

In the frame of XII Sample Minimal Big Size you will be able to see the sculptures of the Spanish contemporary artists in the House of Culture of the St Lawrence El Escorial.

Work assembles the exhibition in wood, stone and artists' steel like Diego Canogar, Jorge García, Juan Carlos Fuentes, Hair Millán, Juan de la Iglesia, Teresa Abellanas, Adolfo Alcalde, Carmen Ambruster, Iván de Christ, Héctor Delgado, Magdalen F. Merino, Angels Friar, Gabriel Fuertes, I Protect García, Ignacio López, César Montero, M. Luz Nieto, Ann Olano, Pardito, Ricardo Santonja and Peace Saints.

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Main prise, 1932 Alberto Giacometti-Stiftung, Zurick © FAAG / 2009, ProLitteris, Zurick

A revision of the work of Alberto Giacometti is the proposal of this summer of the Foundation Beyeler that you can visit if you are for Basel.

What will we be able to see? The sample composes of sculptures, paintings, drawings and objects, both of the proper Giacometti and of some members of his family, like Giovani Giacometti (his father), Augusto Giacometti (his cousin) and Diego, older brother of the artist, central figure of the life and Giacometti production.

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Esteban Vicente was born in 1904 in Turégano, Segovia. At the age of 17 his formation began in the School of Fine arts of San Fernando, firstly to form like sculptor, although he decided to devote himself to the painting.

Once in Madrid there had contact with writers and artists, like García Lorca, Juan Ramón Jiménez, Alberti, Luis Buñuel, Juan Bonafé, Bores and the Pole Wladislaw Jahl. For his esthetics it was located in the group that received the epithet of “painters poets”. In fact, there was in two literary magazines, Poem and Prose and Midday, where he published his first drawings.

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Man Cactus I, 1939

Julio González: the limits of the metal there is the title of the exhibition of the Spanish sculptor that he can visit in the Foundation Picasso Museo Native House of Malaga.

What will we be able to see? The sample assembles 52 works in sculpture, drawings, jewels and paintings originated from the collection of the Valencian Institute of Modern art, being one of the most finished exhibitions of González that have been seen in the city.

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Woman taking off the shoes, 1970

Cristino Mallo was born in Tuy (Pontevedra) in 1905. He lived in different places of Spain before settling in Madrid, where it developed all his artistic career. It initiated his formation in the School of Arts and crafts of Avilés. In 1923 it registered in that of Fine arts of San Fernando, where it was provided with teachers as Capuz and Mateo Inuria.

From 1927 it began to frequent intellectual gatherings, and had contact with the poets of this generation. In 1931 he signed the manifesto of the AGAP (Trade union Group of Artists Plásticos). Two years later it gained the National Award of Sculpture with his work Nude with fish. In 1935 it moved to Salamanca, to get out of debt like teacher in the School of Arts and crafts of that city, where it was related to sculptors as Montagurt and Macías.

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Head before the mirror of Julio González
1934. Ruined bronze

Julio González in the collection of the IVAM is the title of the exhibition of the Spanish artist that you will be able to visit in the Valencian Institute of Modern art (IVAM) this summer and autumn.

What will we be able to see? The sample consists of 400 González's works, between sculptures, drawings, paintings and gold work, which simultaneously turn into one of the collections with more works of this cardinal Spanish artist in the history of Spanish art.

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Photo of Rachel Weisz for James White

Tears of Eros there is the title of the big retrospective that the Museum Thyssen Bornemisza will inaugurate in autumn, which central topics are the eroticism, the passion and the death in the ancient art, of the XIXth century, surrealist and contemporary.

What will we be able to see? The sample consists of 120 works that tackle the eroticism and the passion across these moments of the art history, with pieces in painting, sculpture, video and photo. Between the works stars are photos of Man Ray or James White; paintings of Picasso and Antonio Saura and videos of Bill Viola.

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