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Henri Rousseau, Artillerymen (Les artilleurs), ca. 1893–95. Oil on canvas, 79.1 x 98.9 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift 38.711
Henri Rousseau
May 24–September 12, 2010 On the centenary of Henri Rousseau’s death, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in partnership with the Foundation Beyeler, Basel, is devoting an exhibition to this extraordinary French painter.
Robert Rauschenberg, Greek Toy Glut (Neapolitan), 1987. Assembled metal, 207 x 254 x 39.4 cm. Estate of Robert Rauschenberg. Photo: Sally Ritts
Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
February 12–September 12, 2010 Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao underscores the spirit of the artist’s excitement about Frank Gehry’s architectural masterpiece and its transformative presence in Bilbao. In response to the building’s scale, larger and more elaborate Gluts have been added to the exhibition, displaying not only their majesty and monumentality, but also the dynamic between the sculptural and painterly that defined this great American artist.
Yves Klein, Large Blue Anthropometry (ANT 105) [La Grande Anthropométrie Bleue (ANT 105)], ca. 1960. Blue pigment and synthetic resin on paper on canvas, 280 x 428 cm. Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa
Selections from the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection
February 16, 2010–2011This show is the first in a series of exhibitions scheduled to take place over the next three years and revolving around the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao Collection. It aims to offer an overview of the collection’s most important works, revealing the connections between their respective contexts and providing a comprehensive vision of the purpose of the Collection, which currently boasts 102 works by 62 different artists.
Anish Kapoor, Shooting into the Corner, 2008–09. Mixed media, dimensions variable. MAK, Vienna, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art. Installation view, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2009. Photo: Wolfgang Woessner
Anish Kapoor
March 16–October 12, 2010 The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents a major solo exhibition devoted to the art of Anish Kapoor, one of the most influential sculptors working today. The exhibition, which opened to enormous acclaim at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in fall 2009, is the first large-scale survey of Kapoor’s work to be seen in Spain.