06.02.2013 > 12.05.2013
Elmyr de Hory was one of the most infamous art forgers in history. He is said to have produced more than a thousand paintings, which were shown in museums all over the world, faking works by masters such as Picasso, Modigliani, Matisse, and Renoir. This exhibition, which brings together for the first time oil paintings and watercolours, raises questions about the concept of authorship in the realm of artistic creation.
06.03.2013 > 19.05.2013
Maria Bonomi (Meina, Italia, 1935) is at the heart of the long- standing tradition of engraving in Brasil and is one of its most important practitioners. Born of an Italian father and a Brasilian mother, she moved to Sao Paulo in 1946 and, together with Fayga Ostrower, Roberto de Lamonica, Edith Behring or Anna Letycia, joined the ranks of the new abstract movement that sprang in Brasil at the end of the fifties. The Círculo de Bellas Artes hosts an exhibition of her work focusing on her woodcuts and engraved surfaces.
18.04.2013 > 08.09.2013
This installation makes use of books thrown away by libraries to inquire into the material nature of writing. Díaz de Rábago borrows the title of a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, conceiving of a universe in the form of a vast library. In Library of Babel XI, books and letters have been stripped of their context and of their function to become building material and invade all corners of the Círculo de Bellas Artes.
22.04.2013 > 05.05.2013
This exhibition brings together the illustrations for the first complete translation of Don Quixote into Slovene, published between 1935 and 1937 by Slovenska Matica Editors and translated by Stanko Leben.
03.06.2013 > 01.09.2013
Violence is now a part of daily life in Mexico. Murders follow each other at a dizzy pace and have numbed society’s ability to respond. This project is Fernando Brito’s attempt to bring to the light the pain and harsh reality caused by these deaths.
03.06.2013 > 28.07.2013
Photographer Zbigniew Dlubak has devoted his work since the 1950s to the female nude. This exhibition, curated by Karolina Lewandowska, attempts to bring together his earlier works and conceptual pieces, and to analyze Dlubak modernist vision of the body, comparing it with contemporary views.
03.06.2013 > 28.07.2013
This exhibition, curated by Laura González Flores, explores the work of two great American masters in photography through the relationship between vision and desire. It’s a very special case of desire turned image: the photographer portraying the person he loves.
03.06.2013 > 01.09.2013
The 21 artists who make up this exhibition redefine and expand the field of Feminist Art. Woman. The Feminist Avant-garde in the 70s. Works from the Sammlung Verbund brings together works from the Sammlung Verbund Collection by the following artists: Helena Almeida, Eleanor Antin, Renate Bertlmann, Valie Export, Esther Ferrer, Alexis Hunter, Sanja Ivekovic, Birgit Jürgenssen, Ketty La Rocca, Leslie Labowitz, Suzanne Lacy, Suzy Lake, Ana Mendieta, Rita Myers, Martha Rosler, Cindy Sherman, Annegret Soltau, Hannah Wilke, Martha Wilson, Francesca Woodman and Nil Yalter.