Coming next at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza

The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid, Spain) will host three major exhibitions for the autumn-winter season. These shows are absolutely essential for art lovers:

Gauguin and the Voyage to the Exotic
9 October 2012 to 13 January 2013

Paul Gauguin’s flight to Tahiti, where he regained primitivism via exoticism, is the guiding thread of this exhibition. Through a comprehensive selection of works by late 19th- and early 20thcentury artists it will reveal how travel to supposedly more authentic regions brought about a transformation of creative language, while also analysing the degree to which this experience conditioned the rise of modern art.

Cartier
24 October 2012 to 17 February 2013

Nearly 400 pieces from the historic Cartier collection of the legendary French jewellers Cartier will be on display at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza from October 2012. The exhibition will present a comprehensive selection of the finest jewels that Cartier has repurchased over the course of the decades in order to assemble a representative collection of the Maison’s production and to show the evolution its style during the first half of the 20th century.

Painting Outdoors
5 February to 12 May 2013

The principal aim of this exhibition is to offer an analysis of the practice of painting outdoors as a factor within the transformation and modernisation of 19th-century art. In general, this practice is generally associated with Impressionism. In fact, although Monet, Renoir, Sisley and Pissarro first started to exhibit their works in the photographer Nadar’s studio in 1874, plein air painting had already existed for nearly a century and the execution of studies painted outdoors were a key part of a landscape painter’s training from the late 18th century onwards.

The exhibition will bring together around 100 works and will span a chronological period from 1780 to 1900. It starts with work by some of the founders of plein air landscape painting such as Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes and Thomas Jones, and continues through the work of figures such as Turner, Constable, Corot, Rousseau, Courbet, Daubigny and all the great figures of Impressionism, concluding at the end of the century with Van Gogh and Cézanne among many other key names.