'Visible and invisible' by Pablo Boneu in Blanca Berlin
last weekend The official opening of a good part of Madrid's galleries took place. With the event ** Opening of Arte_Madrid ** the artistic season kicks off every year: the simultaneous opening in more than 40 galleries. The city surrenders to the charms of contemporary art as a palliative to the melancholy of the end of the holidays. Go quickly to your agenda and take note. Madrid cannot conceive of autumn without the beauty of art.
Alejandro Botubol in Valverde Gallery
ROOMS (TO SEE) YES OR YES
1.**Museo del Traje ** _(Avda. Juan de Herrera, 2) _ Man in progress. GQ Spain magazine celebrates its 20th anniversary with a colossal exhibition in the old museum of contemporary art. Man in Progress reviews and reflects on menswear from the last two decades. From September 26 to November 2, the space will host what will be the first retrospective of these dimensions in Europe. The exhibition houses exclusive fashion pieces such as the polka dot tuxedo worn by Lionel Messi by picking up the 2012 Ballon d'Or or Tom Ford's suit design for Daniel Craig in 007' Quantum of Solace (2008). Together with them, we can see a generous selection of photographs by illustrious figures such as Paolo Roversi, Sebastian Kim or Eugenio Recuenco. #GQmaninprogress
2.**Sala Alcalá 31** (Alcalá, 31) The face of letters. On September 24, the room opens a magnificent ode to literature. It is a selection of 250 pieces that document the portrait in photography in our country for 100 years. 19th and 20th century photographs, postcards, collector's items, brochures, albums and other documents that accurately recount the evolution of this photographic discipline. Until January 11, 2015.
3.**CentroCentro ** _(Plaza de Cibeles, 1) _ Le Corbusier. The passion of postcards. Conceived in collaboration with the Brussels-based Center International pour la Ville, l'Architecture et le Paysage, the exhibition analyzes the creative universe of the swiss genius through his immense collection of postcards (nearly 2,300 copies) conceived as an instrument to let his envied imagination fly. Le Corbusier revolutionized the way of thinking about architecture in the 20th century. And he never ceases to amaze us in the 21st century.
Eugenio Recuenco 2001 A Space Odyssey, at the Costume Museum
THE TRIANGLE OF ART
1.**Prado Museum ** _(Paseo del Prado, s/n) _. Our most international art gallery uses its huge collection for the first time in the 2014/2015 academic year. Until October 27 we can see El mal sefane. Egusquiza and Wagner's Parsifal, a beautiful collection of the works that Rogelio de Egusquiza made around the last opera by Richard Wagner. The artist from Santander met the German composer in 1879, and his sporadic friendship marked his creative career. In the year that commemorates the centenary of the death of El Greco, you still have time to marvel at the summer exhibition: El Greco and modern painting. The exhibition reviews the profound influence of the Cretan artist on authors such as Manet, Cézanne and Zuloaga. Until October 5, 2014.
Richard Hamilton at the Reina Sofía Museum
2.**Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum ** (Paseo del Prado 8). Next October 22, and until January 18, the Frenchman Hubert de Givenchy invades the halls of the Madrid space, which for the first time organizes an exhibition around fashion. The powerful legacy throughout half a century of the French designer is synthesized in the exhibition curated by Givenchy himself, removed from the catwalks in 1996.
3. Reina Sofia Museum . The irreverent and great pioneer of British pop art, Richard Hamilton, stars in the exhibition of the season. Died just three years ago, the museum honors with a selection of More than 250 works reviews the fertile career of the London genius. His incisive gaze, his profound criticism of contemporary society and his iconographic language are already part of the anañés of the world of political incorrectness and aesthetically sublime.
Milena Muzquiz in Crossing Four
GALLERIES
1.**Marlborough ** _(Orfila, 5) _. Nature. Alfonso Albacete. From September 11, 2014 to October 18, 2014.
2.**Valverde Space** (Valverde, 30). Cosmonogies. Alexander Botubol. September.
3.**Berlin White** _(Lemon, 28) _ Dark heart. Chuck Ramirez. (In collaboration with Ruiz-Healy Art) and Visible and invisible. Paul Boneu. From September 11 to November 15.
4.**Ivory Press ** _(Comandante Zorita, 46-48) _. Rivers and Mountains. Maya Lin. From September 16 to November 1.
5.**Max Estrella** _(Santo Tomé, 6 Patio) _. Small Data. Daniel Canogar. From September 11 to October 31.
6. ** Crossing Four ** (San Mateo 16) . Ladies & Gentlemen. Milena Muzquiz. From September 11, 2014 - October 31, 2014.
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Small Data by Daniel Canogar in Max Estrella