The exhibition "Lluïsa Vidal (1876-1918)" will show all the artistic facets of this major painter, cartoonist and illustrator who belonged to the generation of young Catalan Modernista artists. Lluïsa Vidal was noted as a highly valued portrait painter for her ability to reveal the emotional state of the person portrayed.

The exhibition will be completed by a documentation section featuring family photographs, letters, photographs of works by the painter published in magazines, published books with her illustrations, reviews of her exhibitions in various newspapers of the time and the diploma awarded to the painter in 1907 by the city of Barcelona for one of her drawings.

The exhibition provides the chance to become better acquainted with the later paintings of Edvard Munch and his influence on the Danish artist Asger Jorn´s body of work. By focusing on Munch the painter, new perspectives can be found on the free, spontaneous and gestural aspects of Munch´s paintings as perceived by Jorn in the late 1940s

The exhibition will include a series of some 200 works grouped in five main areas and comprising a very careful selection of some of the most emblematic works by this Barcelona painter.

The show´s narrative will be enriched by a very select group of works from an extremely notable repertoire of artists who served as his inspiration or exerted a certain influence in him. The inclusion of visual reference works by these painters, who influenced the inflections of his poetics, with figures such as Carolus-Duran, Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Sargent, Degas, Bastien-Lepage, Whistler, Rusiñol or Sorolla, is reflected by the similar role of master that Casas played for such important artists as Torres-Garcia, Picasso or Julio Romero de Torres, who will also be represented by their work in the exhibition.

The exhibition will travel to CaixaForum Madrid and Palma de Mallorca throughout 2017.

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art in partnership with AUREA Cultura i Art presents a large-scale exhibition «Antoni Gaudí. Barcelona». The project aims at tracing the artistic journey of Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) through his major architectural achievements while revealing the influence of his work on contemporary culture. Gaudí´s first exhibition in Russia is held to coincide with the 165th anniversary of the architect´s birth. The exhibition in MMOMA is complemented by a piece by a contemporary Catalan artist Frederic Amat who is rightly considered a successor of Gaudí´s tradition in the field of media art.

The exhibition "Ismael Smith. Beauty and Monsters" is arranged in five rooms: the person, the illustrator, the sculptor, the engraver and the artist´s tragic end, providing an in-depth overview of the career of Ismael Smith Marí (Barcelona, 1886 - White Plains, New York, 1972).

This exhibition explores the fascinating dialogue between Gustav Klimt´s work and classical art. A selection of examples from the artist´s oeuvre illustrates a fundamental shift in his understanding of antiquity. Whereas his early work, influenced by Historicism, reveals an interest in the details of classical art, after 1900 he translated the spirit of antiquity into his own formal language. The exhibition illustrates this development through juxtaposing Klimt´s work with classical vase painting and casts of sculptures that inspired the artist.

The summer´s exhibition "Towards the forest - Knausgård on Munch" takes the form of a journey from light and harmony through darkness and chaos - returning finally to a controllable reality. 

Do not miss this exhibition to explore the architecture by Paul Hamesse, a disciple of Paul Hankar! This architect worked for more than 40 years with his brothers, Georges and Leon, in their studio in Saint Gilles.

The Rafael Masó Foundation presents for the first time a series of works collected by the Masó family from the late 19th century to the early 20th century in order to show the extent in which the presence and contemplation of art were essential elements in their lives and how they want this value to be transmitted to future generations.

Free entrance

The Hôtel Mezzara is opening its doors to the public to host an exhibition entitled "Hector Guimard, Design Pioneer", a show presented and organised by Le Cercle Guimard.
The event provides an excellent opportunity to visit the rooms of the Hôtel Mezzara, a gem designed by this great Art Nouveau architect.

The exhibition can be visited on 27, 28 and 29 September from 5.30pm to 8pm and then every weekend until 9 December 2017.

The Museu d´Art de Cerdanyola (MAC) presents a small show in its permanent gallery dedicated to Ismael Smith and the subject of the nude in his work, revealing his most hidden side: his sexual identity and Jewish origins. Nude and Naked offers an overview of the artist´s work based on one of his most common themes, the nude, addressing various issues that relate to sexuality stereotypes and Smith´s personality. The team at El Palomar will provide a counterpoint from the perspective of the queer movement and there will be a series of installations from young emerging artists on display in the museum´s Arc space, establishing a dialogue with the disciplines of this versatile creator (sculpture, illustration, jewellery), as well as highlighting Smith´s most ground-breaking, modern vision.

Free entrance

The exhibition has been extended until 30 December 2017

The Gothsland Art Gallery is presenting a series of 25 carefully selected works produced by Joan Cardona i Lladòs (Barcelona, 1877-1957) between 1898 and 1909 to commemorate the 140th anniversary of his birth. The exhibition focuses on the Parisian period of this great draughtsman of satirical and humorous publications in Paris during the Belle Époque.

The exhibition "Ramon Pichot. From Els Quatre Gats to La Maison Rose" displays Pichot´s evolution from his initial Modernisme to the decorativism of the early 20th century. Pichot´s work is especially characterised by the treatment and predominance of colour. Three places would come to mark him throughout his career as an artist: Barcelona, Paris and Cadaqués, and in terms of subject matter he would alternate between genre scenes, portraits, the landscape of Cadaqués and Hispanic regionalism.

The MAPFRE Foundation in Barcelona presents one of the icons of art from the 'fin de siècle' period, The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin. This installation brings together a hundred sculptures and around thirty drawings, that have only been shown on rare occasions, plus various mock-ups and models that give an insight into the creative process of the sculptor and the evolution that the Gates were subjected to over the years. Considered the central work of the French sculptor?s career, who spent more than twenty years working on it. This monumental piece offers a spectacular view of hell, frenzied and tempestuous, yet also sensual and evocative.

This presentation at the Leopold Museum will be the most comprehensive retrospective exhibition of works by Ferdinand Hodler (1853-1918) in Austria since the artist´s resounding success at the 1904 Secession exhibition. An exponent of Symbolism and Jugendstil, a pioneer of Expressionism, and not least an innovator of monumental painting, Hodler was an important inspiration to numerous artists of Viennese Modernism, such as Gustav Klimt and Koloman Moser, as well as Oskar Kokoschka and Egon Schiele.

This landmark exhibition explores the life and work of May Morris, the younger daughter of William Morris and one of the most significant artists of the British Arts and Crafts movement.

The Barcelona Design Museum joins the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of  Puig i Cadafalch's birth  (1867-1956) with an exhibition by the photographer Ramon Manent. This time, Ramon Manent's camera gives us his particular view of the most significant works of the architect.

In the years around 1900, the multi-ethnic realm of the Habsburg Monarchy experienced a lively exchange of art and culture between Vienna, its center, and the main cities of the Crown lands such as Zagreb. For the development of Croatian art around the turn of the century, this exchange was very significant. In the exhibition, the connections and points of reference at the start of the twentieth century are presented by key works of Austrian and Croatian artists of that period.