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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Avenida Abandoibarra, 2
Bilbao 48001, Spain
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Michelangelo Pistoletto, Mirror Architecture (Architettura dello Specchio), 1990. Mirror and golden frame. 360 x 800 cm; 2 mirrors: 325 x 184 cm; 2 mirrors: 325 x 200 cm; 2 frames: 360 x 201.5 x 10.5 cm. © MACBA Collection. Government of Catalonia Art Fund
The Inverted Mirror: Art from the Collections of "la Caixa" Foundation and MACBA
January 31–September 2, 2012With works by 52 artists from two of the largest contemporary art
collections in Europe, "la Caixa" Foundation and Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, The Inverted Mirror presents both
Barcelona-based collections together outside of their respective venues
for the first time. This survey of art from the late 1940s to the
present includes painting, sculpture, photography, and video organized into six thematic sections.
Gerhard Richter, Seascape (Seestück), 1998. Oil on canvas. 290 x 290 cm. Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
Selections from the Guggenheim Bilbao Collection II
November 15, 2011–October 28, 2012This exhibition is the second in a series scheduled to take place between 2009 and 2012 featuring works from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao collection. On this occasion, the exhibition examines artistic debates of the 1970s and 1980s initiated by a generation of European artists whose careers began in the early 1960s and are represented here by selected works produced from the late 1980s to the present.
Richard Serra. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 1987. Hot-rolled steel, eight plates, 184.8 x 400 x 5.1 cm each. Collection of the artist © 2011 Richard Serra. Photo © 2011 FMGBGuggenheim Bilbao Museoa
Brancusi-Serra
Oct 8, 2011–Jan 15, 2012Brancusi-Serra, organized by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in cooperation with the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland, features approximately thirty works by Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi, as well as nine sculptures and numerous drawings by American artist Richard Serra. Viewed together, their work illustrates the development of 20th-century sculpture in a dynamic presentation that interacts with the irregular volumes and singular gallery spaces of the Frank Gehry–designed building. Organized thematically, the exhibition presents an open dialogue about artistic and sculptural possibilities, displayed through the juxtapositions of each artist’s work and in sequences of galleries devoted solely to Brancusi or Serra.