ART  &  ARCHITECTURE  IN  MALLORCA  FOR  THE  FRENCH  COMMITTEE  OF  THE  NATIONAL  MUSEUM  OF  WOMEN  IN  THE  ARTS  

                                                             31  MARCH  to  4  APRIL  2014.    

1. MONDAY  31  MARCH:  PARIS-­‐  PALMA  DE  MALLORCA.  PM:  Independent  flights  Paris-­‐Mallorca.  Arrival  Palma  de  Mallorca  airport  designed  by  architect  Pere  Nicolau.  Individual  transfers  by  taxi  to  the  Hotel  HM  Jaime  III,  centrically  located  in  the  town  of  Palma  and  decorated  by  art  works  by  women  artists  such  as  Susy  Gomez  and  Tacita  Dean.    Check-­‐in.      9:00  pm.  Meet  in  the  lobby  with  Sofia  Barroso  your  lecturer.  Departure  on  foot  Tapas  &  drinks  at  ABA  gallery.  Welcome  by  owners:  Maribel  and  Alejandra  Bordoy.  Presentation  of  their  young  women  artists.  www.abaart.com    Agnes  Dällenbach  ,  Ana  Crespo,  Concha  Romeu,  Elna  Ernest,  Irene  Bordoy,  isabel  Ferrer  Tapia,  Linde  Bialas,  marga  Gomez  del  Cerro,  Maria  Isabel  Uribe,  Mcruz  Ugarte,  Mercedes  Laguens,  Veronica  Ruth  Frias,  Isabel  Castro  Yung,  Amaya  Bombin,  Anke  Blaue,  Maria  Lluisa  Aguilo,  Natasha  Zupan  &  Malene  Birger.  

 

 

Hotel  HM  Jaime  III  ****  Paseo  Mallorca  nº  14  B  Palma  de  Malloca.  Tel.  +34  971  72  59  43  www.hmjaimeiii.com  Cell  phone  Sofia:  +34  639379073    

 

2. TUESDAY  1  APRIL:  PALMA-­‐  SOLLER.  Buffet  breakfast  at  the  hotel.  10:00  am.  Departure  on  foot.  Visit  Es  Baluard,  Palma´s  museum  of  Modern  and  Contemporary  Art  located  in  a  fortress  that  was  brilliantly  restored  and  re-­‐adapted  by  the  architects  Luis  &  Jaume  García  –Ruiz.  .  www.esbaluard.org    Welcome  by  director:  Nekane  Aramburu  and  curators.    Soad  Houman  and  Catalina  Joy.    

                     Visit  the  temporary  exhibition  titled:      

Reproducibility  1.1)  is  an  exhibition  conceived  from  the  basis  of  Es  Baluard’s  photography  

collection  with  the  collaboration  of  collectors,  public  entities  and  international  artists.  Its  curatorial  development  sets  out  from  the  origins  of  photography  and  its  uses  to  introduce  us  into  an  analysis  of  the  environment  and  its  transformation,  based  on  two  thematic  axes  –  

the  portrait  as  a  certificate  of  presence  or  exorcising  medium  of  the  self  and  others,  and  the  urban  and  natural  metalandscape.  A  history  of  perspectives,  like  that  demanded  by  Roland  Barthes,  by  way  of  a  kaleidoscopic  approach  steeped  in  references,  some  well-­‐known  and  

others  not  so  much,  which  will  gradually  mutate  over  six  months.  The  exhibition  space  is  slightly  modified  due  to  its  second  movement  and  four  works  are  added,  giving  a  new  inflection  point  to  the  project  with  the  incorporation  of  Spanish  artists  (Aitor  Ortiz  and  Marisa  

Gonzalez),  new  artworks  like  one  presented  in  the  last  Venice  Bienal  (El  Recorrido  de  la  Totalidad,  Paloma  Polo)  and  classical  works  of  the  Photography  history  like  those  made  by  Francesca  Woodman.    Women  artists  on  show  at  this  exhibition  are:  

MARINA ABRAMOVIĆ, PILAR ALBARRACÍN, HELENA ALMEIDA, CHEMA ALVARGONZÁLEZ, PER BARCLAY, GUILLEM BESTARD, JOAN-RAMON BONET, PEPE CAÑABATE, FRANCESC CATALÀ-ROCA, TONI CATANY, DIANA COCA, ERRÓ, FRANCESC FIOL AMENGUAL, ROLAND FISCHER, MIGUEL FONT, JOAN FONTCUBERTA, ALBERTO GARCÍA-ALIX, AMPARO GARRIDO, SUSY GÓMEZ, PIERRE GONNORD, DIONISIO GONZÁLEZ, MARISA GONZÁLEZ, ALFREDO JAAR, SYBILLE VON KASKEL, JANA LEO, MAN RAY, ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, JUAN MANDELBAUM, FRANCESCA MARTÍ, JOAN MIRÓ, SHIRIN NESHAT, MARINA NÚÑEZ, AITOR ORTIZ, JOSÉ ORTIZ ECHAGÜE, PALOMA POLO, MIGUEL RIO BRANCO, THOMAS RUFF, GASPAR RUL·LAN, SEAN SCULLY, MONTSERRAT SOTO, GRETE STERN, JOSEP TRUYOL (ATRIBUÏT), DARÍO VILLALBA, JULES VIRENQUE, FRANCESCA WOODMAN I ARTISTES ANÒNIMS AND ANONYMOUS ARTISTS.  

 11:30  am.    Free  time  for  Coffee  at  the  museum´s  café.  12:00    pm.  Continue  on  foot..  Visit  the  Casal  Solleric  Contemporary  Art  Centre.  Welcome  by  director  :  Pilar  Ribal.    (  Paseo  del  Born  nº    27  )  www.casalsolleric.com  Program  to  be  announced.  1:30  pm.  Lunch  at  Can  Cera,  small  boutique  hotel  of  Cecilia  and  Miguel  Conde  decorated    with    works  of  women  artists.  (  Carrer  Convent  de  San  Francesc  nº  8).  3:00  pm..  Visit  a  private  collection  of  international  contemporary  art  where  its  main  feature  are  works  on  paper.  Continue  to  Palma´s  impressive  Gothic  Cathedral  where  we  will  see  the  intervention  by  Gaudí  and    St  Peters  Chapel  by  Miquel  Barceló.    

                       4:30  pm.  Return  to  the  hotel.  Free  time.          7:00  pm.  Departure  the  hotel  by  minibus.  Drive  to  Soller.  Visit  the  studio  of  Francesca  Martí    who  works  in  painting,  photography  and  video,  followed  by  dinner  at  her  home.  Welcome  by  Francesca  and  her  Swedish  husband  ,  the  collector  Gunar  Dahl.  www.francescamarti.com    

                       

3.    WEDNESDAY  2  APRIL:  PALMA-­‐ANDRATX-­‐PUIGPUNYENT.  10:00  am.  Departure  by  coach.  Visit  the  Joan  &  Pilar  Miró  Foundation.  Welcome  by  Joan  Punyet  Miró,  grandson  of  the  artists’  and  author  of  his  catalogue  raisonne.    ( c. de Sarridakis nº 9 ) www.miro.palmademallorca.es

The  Fundació  Pilar  i  Joan  Miró  in  Mallorca  comprises  three  unique  buildings  that  offer  one  of  the  most  striking  architectural  ensembles  on  the  island:  Son  Boter,  a  late  18th-­‐century  Majorcan  house  that  the  artist  purchased  as  a  second  painting  and  sculpture  studio;  the  Sert  Studio,  designed  by  his  friend  the  architect  Josep  Lluís  Sert  and  built  in  1956;  and  the  Moneo  Building,  the  Fundació’s  headquarters,  designed  by  Rafael  Moneo  and  opened  in  1992.  The  first  two  buildings  have  been  included  in  the  Bienes  de  Interés  Cultural  architectural  heritage  list.  

 

 11:30  am.  Continue  to  the  town  of  Andratx.    Coffee  at  Barbara´s  private  home  followed  by  a  visit  to  Studio  Weil.    

               The  Studio  Weil,  a  building  projected  by  the  architect  Daniel  Libeskind,  has  housed  since  last  September  the  studio  and  permanent  gallery  of  Barbara  Weil,  renowned  North  American  artist  who  has  been  living  in  Port  d'Andratx  for  over  thirty  years.  The  new  space,  that  exhibits  permanently  a  selection  of  the  sculptures  and  paintings  by  Barbara  Weil,  has  become  a  building  of  reference  for  architects  and  architecture  students  the  world  over,  above  all  since  Daniel  Libeskind  won  the  contest  to  rebuild  Ground  Zero  in  Manhattan.    

 1.30  pm.  Departure  for  paella  lunch  at  Port  Andratx  with  artist  Barbara  Weil.  4:00  pm.    Visit  the  Andratx    Cultural  Centre.  www.ccandrtax.com    

A  team  of  curators  directed  by  Patricia  Asbaek  organizes  between  3  -­‐  4  international  exhibitions  per  year,  showing  challenging  artistic  projects  and  experiments  in  a  wide  range  of  media.The  CCA  Gallery  offers  selected  works  to  satisfy  the  demands  of  any  art  collector.  Paintings,  sculptures,  installations,  graphics  and  photographs  from  international  and  local  artists  are  displayed  and  for  sale.The  CCA  Gallery  also  hosts  solo  exhibitions  of  artists  who  have  worked  in  the  CCA  StudiosCA  ESPAI  is  a  space  dedicated  to  artists  residing  in  the  Balearic  Islands.  An  annual  program  of  four  solo  exhibitions  will  present  contemporary  art  by  Balearic  artists  working  in  a  wide  variety  of  media  such  as  such  as  paintings,  sculpture,  photography,  drawings,  video  art  and  installations.The  aim  of  the  CCA  ESPAI  is  to  create  an  ongoing  dialogue  between  contemporary  artists  from  the  Balearic  Islands  and  the  widely  international  art  public  of  the  CCA  Andratx.  In  this  way,  CCA  ESPAI  hopes  to  contribute  to  the  already  flourishing  creative  development  in  the  Balearic  Islands,  as  well  as  to  promote  the  artistic  and  cultural  life  of  the  Balearic  Islands  internationally.The  CCA  ESPAI  will  be  a  dynamic  platform  for  Balearic  artists  to  show  their  works  and  to  benefit  from  the  international  reputation  of  the  CCA  Andratx,  considered  to  be  one  of  the  most  challenging  art  spaces  in  Spain  today.  

                       

               5:00  pm.  Drive  back  to  Palma.    8:00  pm.    Departure  on  foot.  Diner  at  the  private  home  and  gallery  Horrach  Moya  .  Welcome  by  owner  Juan  Antonio  Horrach  and  his  partner,  the  women  artist:  Susy  Gomez.  www.horrachmoya.com    (Address:  Plaza  Drassanas  nº  15)  Curant  exhibition  on  Joanna  de  Vasconcelos.      

   

 

4. THURSDAY  3  APRIL:  PALMA-­‐  POLLENSA-­‐ALCUDIA-­‐PALMA.  10:00  am.  Departure  by  coach.  Enjoy  a  scenic  drive  to  the  town  of  Pollensa.    Visit  the  home  and  studio  of  Rebecca  Horn.  (  *  to  be  confirmed)    

Since the beginning of the 1970s, Rebecca Horn has been creating an oeuvre which constitutes  an  ever-­‐growing  flow  of  performances,  films,  sculptures,  spatial  installations,  drawings  and  photographs.  The  essence  of  their  imagery  comes  out  of  the  tremendous  precision  of  the  physical  and  technical  functionality  she  uses  to  stage  her  works  each  time  within  a  particular  space.  In  the  first  performances,  the  body-­‐extensions,  she  explores  the  equilibrium  between  body  and  space.  In  later  works  she  replaces  the  human  body  with  kinetic  sculptures  which  take  on  their  own  life.  Her  new  works  define  and  cut  through  spaces  with  reflections  of  mirrors,  light  and  music.    The  objects  used  and  specially  made  for  her  installations  such  as  violins,  suitcases,  batons,  ladders,  pianos,  feather  fans,  metronomes,  small  metal  hammers,  black  water  basins,  spiral  drawing  machines  and  huge  funnels  together  build  the  elements  for  kinetic  sculptures  that  are  liberated  from  their  defined  materiality  and  continuously  transposed  into  ever-­‐changing  metaphors  touching  on  mythical,  historical,  literary  and  spiritual  imagery.  

     

We  will  also  visit  Maior  Gallery  that  represents    women  artist  such  as    Susana  Solano,  Eva  Lootz,    Mónica  Fuster,    Nuria  Marques,  Aina  Perello  and  Lucia  Vallejo.  Welcome  by  owner:  Jerónima  Martinez.  www.galeriamaior.es  1:00  pm.  Departure.  Visit  the  Yannick    &  Ben  Jakober  Foundation.    Welcome  by  Ben  Jakober  and  by  Yannick  Vu  Jakober  and  by  director:  Eva  Mulet.  Lunch  at  the  foundation.        www.fundacionjakober.org  Visit  the  studio  and  works  of  artist  Yannick  Vu.    

                             

 The outstanding feature of Sa Bassa Blanca is undoubtedly the building designed by Hassan Fathy (Cairo,1900-1989). He was already 78 years old and had never built anything in Western Europe when he drew up the plans of the Hispano Moresque building, which he called a “ribat”, retaining only the outside walls of an existing farmhouse of the property. White crenellated walls, traditional vaults and domes punctuate the otherwise flat terraces of the edifice sur- rounding a central courtyard with gardens and fountains. Most windows are covered by wooden lattices called “mushrabeyehs” and the doors and floor tiling are antique elements brought from Andalucía, Northern Spain and Morocco. The existing “Aljibe” or underground water reservoir was transformed into an exhibition space in 1994 and in 2007 the new underground area “Sokrates” was brought into service. Neither competes with the architecture of the great Hassan Fathy.    One  of  the  most  unique  collections  of  its  kind  in  Europe  consisting  of  more  than  150  Portraits  of  Children,  Nins,  dating  from  the  XVI  to  the  XIX  centuries  designated  as  national  heritage.  Some  of  these  are  permanently  exhibited  to  the  public  in  a  converted  underground  reservoir.  The main building conceived by the great Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy in 1978 houses the Karlweis Wing, where the largest collection in the world of paintings, sculptures and drawings by Domenico Gnoli (Rome 1933-New York 1970) are on show, with another room dedicated to Rebecca Horn. There are also works by Alan Rath, Miralda, Meret Oppenheim, Takis and Ben Jakober / Yannick Vu. n the new SoKrates space it is possible to admire extraordinary pieces such as the Swarovski curtain 7 m wide and 4 m high made of 10.000 Crystals, the Pleistocene fossilised skeleton of a Woolly Rhinoceros, as well as works by Miquel Barceló, Gerhard Merz, Dolores Vita, and Ben Jakober / Yannick Vu. There are seven glass showcases

containing ancient masks and votive pieces from Nepal, Tibet, Peru, the Himalayas and Africa creating a dialogue between the contemporary and ancient art. A recent addition is a Sculpture Park, where children and adults may get acquainted with art by way of monumental granite sculptures inspired by animals figuring in Antiquity, all in a bucolic setting.  

Return  to  Palma.  

8:00  pm.  Farewell  drinks  at  a  private  home  &  collection.  

 

5. FRIDAY  4  APRIL:  PALMA-­‐PARIS.  Individual  departures  to  Mallorca´s  airport.    

• This  itinerary  can  be  subject  to  changes  that  will  not  affect  the  quality  of  the  trip.