Date: June 16-30
Location: Museu Picasso
Carmen Calvo (Valencia, 1950) is one of the most important visual artists in Spain. Through her work, she investigates in a critical, yet poetic way, the vestiges of the past and the memory of Spain. Calvo has carried out multiple exhibitions and has been the subject of numerous recognitions and public commissions. For example, in 1997 she represented Spain, together with Joan Brossa, at the Venice Biennale.
Among her retrospective exhibitions there are the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2002) and the Kubo Kutxa hall in Sant Sebastià (2019) and the recent major exhibition prepared by the IVAM (2022). She has also created several works for public spaces, such as the ceiling of the staircase of the Benicarló Palace, seat of the Valencian Courts (1994). In 2013, she was awarded the National Plastic Arts Award, in 2014 she was named an academician of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos and her latest recognition came in 2020 when she received the Julio González Award.
At the end of the exhibition you can see a closed room, which emulates a cage and which is one of the most notable elements of the whole exhibition for its critical force. It is an installation inspired by an event in 1997 when some parents locked their daughter in a room for weeks as a disciplinary measure.
Info: https://museupicassobcn.cat/en/whats-on/exhibition/carmen-calvo
Location: Museu Picasso
Carmen Calvo (Valencia, 1950) is one of the most important visual artists in Spain. Through her work, she investigates in a critical, yet poetic way, the vestiges of the past and the memory of Spain. Calvo has carried out multiple exhibitions and has been the subject of numerous recognitions and public commissions. For example, in 1997 she represented Spain, together with Joan Brossa, at the Venice Biennale.
Among her retrospective exhibitions there are the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (2002) and the Kubo Kutxa hall in Sant Sebastià (2019) and the recent major exhibition prepared by the IVAM (2022). She has also created several works for public spaces, such as the ceiling of the staircase of the Benicarló Palace, seat of the Valencian Courts (1994). In 2013, she was awarded the National Plastic Arts Award, in 2014 she was named an academician of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos and her latest recognition came in 2020 when she received the Julio González Award.
At the end of the exhibition you can see a closed room, which emulates a cage and which is one of the most notable elements of the whole exhibition for its critical force. It is an installation inspired by an event in 1997 when some parents locked their daughter in a room for weeks as a disciplinary measure.
Info: https://museupicassobcn.cat/en/whats-on/exhibition/carmen-calvo