Es Baluard
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Es Baluard is the museum of modern
and contemporary art
of Palma, Majorca, Spain.
Founded on 30 January 2004, Es Baluard exhibits an important collection of contemporary art, of Balearic
artists or made by those related somehow to the Balearic Islands. In addition of showing the pieces that form the museum's permanent collection, celebrates temporary exhibitions. Since its foundation, has hosted works of Rebecca Horn
(2004), Fabrizio Plessi (2004), Picasso (2006), Jaume Plensa
(2006), Andy Warhol
(2006), Joan Miró
(2006 y 2008), Santiago Rusiñol
(2007), Anselm Kiefer
(2009), Robert Mapplethorpe
(2009) and Joana Vasconcelos
(2009), Juan Uslé
(2010), Alberto García-Alix (2010), Eduardo Arroyo
(2011) and Christian Boltanski
(2011), among others.
Fundació Es Baluard administers the museum. The foundation is formed by Govern de les Illes Balears (the Balearic Government), Consell de Mallorca (Mallorca Council), Ajuntament de Palma (Palma Municipal Council) and Fundació d’Art Serra. In 2008 was constituted the Acquisitions Commission, which is formed by internal and external experts with the aim of increasing the collection.
Starting at the time in which pictorial modernism spurred the renovation of landscape painting in Spain and a large group of primarily Catalan painters –Joaquim Mir, Santiago Rusiñol
, Hermen Anglada-Camarasa, Joaquín Sorolla and Antoni Gelabert-, coincided in Mallorca, and following with a tour of the avant-gardes up to the major movements of the mid-twentieth-century – with artists such as Picasso, Joan Miró
, Fernand Léger
, René Magritte
, Picabia, Van Dongen, Nicolas de Staël
, Juli Ramis, Poliakoff
, Wifredo Lam
, among others - the Es Baluard collection lays special emphasis on the artistic currents of the second half of the past century and early years of the twenty-first century. In this sense, it covers the broad diversity of contemporary languages: from painting and sculpture to drawing, photography, video and installations with works by Marina Abramovic
, Miquel Barceló
, Jim Bird, Christian Boltanski
, José Manuel Broto, Miguel Angel Campano, Ramon Canet, Maria Carbonero, Anthony Caro
, Toni Catany, Alberto García-Alix, Rebecca Horn
, Ñaco Fabré, Anselm Kiefer
, Imi Knoebel
, Jorge Mayet, Joan Morey, José María Sicilia and Juan Uslé
, etc.
The Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma collection contains works acquired by the museum each year with the assessment of the Acquisitions Commission (which includes in-house and external experts), works from the institutions that make up the Board (Govern de les Illes Balears (the Balearic Government), Consell de Mallorca (Mallorca Council), Ajuntament de Palma (Palma Municipal Council) and Fundació d’Art Serra, temporary loans from other institutions, businesses, artists and private collections and donations that adhere to the collection’s criteria in all cases.
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2005
2004
Modern art
Modern art includes artistic works produced during the period extending roughly from the 1860s to the 1970s, and denotes the style and philosophy of the art produced during that era. The term is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past have been thrown aside in a spirit of...
and contemporary art
Contemporary art
Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...
of Palma, Majorca, Spain.
Founded on 30 January 2004, Es Baluard exhibits an important collection of contemporary art, of Balearic
Balearic Islands
The Balearic Islands are an archipelago of Spain in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.The four largest islands are: Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera. The archipelago forms an autonomous community and a province of Spain with Palma as the capital...
artists or made by those related somehow to the Balearic Islands. In addition of showing the pieces that form the museum's permanent collection, celebrates temporary exhibitions. Since its foundation, has hosted works of Rebecca Horn
Rebecca Horn
Rebecca Horn is a German installation artist and film director most famous for her body modifications such as Einhorn , a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece, and Pencil Mask, a mesh harness for the head with many pencils projecting out...
(2004), Fabrizio Plessi (2004), Picasso (2006), Jaume Plensa
Jaume Plensa
Jaime Plensa is an Spanish artist and sculptor.-Biography:Plensa was born at Barcelona. Plensa studied art in his home city, in the "Llotja" School and in the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Jorge....
(2006), Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
(2006), Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...
(2006 y 2008), Santiago Rusiñol
Santiago Rusiñol
Santiago Rusiñol i Prats was a Catalan post-impressionist/Symbolist painter, poet, and playwright.He was born in Barcelona in 1861, and died in Aranjuez in 1931 while painting its famous gardens....
(2007), Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac...
(2009), Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe
Robert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men...
(2009) and Joana Vasconcelos
Joana Vasconcelos
Joana Vasconcelos was born in Paris and lives and works in Lisbon. Her participation in the 2005 edition of the Venice Bienale has affirmed her career within the international art circuit...
(2009), Juan Uslé
Juan Uslé
Juan Uslé is an American / Spanish painter known for his original use of intense color.-Biography:Juan Uslé was born in Santander, Spain in 1954. He lives and works between Saro and New York City. He studied fine art at Escuela Superior de Belles Artes in San Carlos, Valencia from 1973-77.Uslé...
(2010), Alberto García-Alix (2010), Eduardo Arroyo
Eduardo Arroyo
Eduardo Arroyo is a Spanish painter and graphic artist. He is also active as an author and set designer.Arroyo, who was born in Madrid, studied art in his home city, but left Spain in 1958 because of his basic contempt for the regime of Francisco Franco and...
(2011) and Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski is French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker.-Life and work:Having no formal art education, he began painting in 1958. Nevertheless, he first came to public attention in 1960 with few short films and publication of several notebooks...
(2011), among others.
Fundació Es Baluard administers the museum. The foundation is formed by Govern de les Illes Balears (the Balearic Government), Consell de Mallorca (Mallorca Council), Ajuntament de Palma (Palma Municipal Council) and Fundació d’Art Serra. In 2008 was constituted the Acquisitions Commission, which is formed by internal and external experts with the aim of increasing the collection.
Location
Museum is in a privileged place, the old bastion of Sant Pere, a 16th century building on Palma's bay and designed by the italian engineer Giovan Giacomo Palearo Fratin ‘El Fratín’. The Museum area is 5.027 square meters, half of them for exhibition. Architects Jaime and Luís García Ruiz, Ángel Sánchez-Cantalejo and Vicente Tomás are the enlargement's authors.The collection
Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma's collection includes works by the major artists and movements that have converged and are converging in the Balearic Islands since the inception of the twentieth century until today and relates them to works from other artistic contexts in Spain and abroad.Starting at the time in which pictorial modernism spurred the renovation of landscape painting in Spain and a large group of primarily Catalan painters –Joaquim Mir, Santiago Rusiñol
Santiago Rusiñol
Santiago Rusiñol i Prats was a Catalan post-impressionist/Symbolist painter, poet, and playwright.He was born in Barcelona in 1861, and died in Aranjuez in 1931 while painting its famous gardens....
, Hermen Anglada-Camarasa, Joaquín Sorolla and Antoni Gelabert-, coincided in Mallorca, and following with a tour of the avant-gardes up to the major movements of the mid-twentieth-century – with artists such as Picasso, Joan Miró
Joan Miró
Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...
, Fernand Léger
Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger was a French painter, sculptor, and filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of Cubism which he gradually modified into a more figurative, populist style...
, René Magritte
René Magritte
René François Ghislain Magritte[p] was a Belgian surrealist artist. He became well known for a number of witty and thought-provoking images...
, Picabia, Van Dongen, Nicolas de Staël
Nicolas de Staël
Nicolas de Staël was a painter known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting...
, Juli Ramis, Poliakoff
Poliakoff
Poliakoff is a surname, and may refer to:*Martyn Poliakoff, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Nottingham*Nicolai Poliakoff, British clown, born in Latvia*Serge Poliakoff, Russian-born French modernist painter...
, Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Lam
Wifredo Óscar de la Concepción Lam y Castilla , better known as Wifredo Lam, was a Cuban artist who sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit and culture...
, among others - the Es Baluard collection lays special emphasis on the artistic currents of the second half of the past century and early years of the twenty-first century. In this sense, it covers the broad diversity of contemporary languages: from painting and sculpture to drawing, photography, video and installations with works by Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramovic
Marina Abramović is a Belgrade-born New York-based Serbian performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s. Active for over three decades, she has recently begun to describe herself as the “grandmother of performance art.” Abramović's work explores the relationship between performer and...
, Miquel Barceló
Miquel Barcelo
Miquel Barceló is a Spanish painter from Felanitx, Majorca.-Career:After having studied at the Arts and Crafts School of Palma for two years, he enrolled at the Fine Arts School of Barcelona in 1974. A year later he returned to Mallorca to participate in the happenings and actions of protest of...
, Jim Bird, Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski
Christian Boltanski is French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker.-Life and work:Having no formal art education, he began painting in 1958. Nevertheless, he first came to public attention in 1960 with few short films and publication of several notebooks...
, José Manuel Broto, Miguel Angel Campano, Ramon Canet, Maria Carbonero, Anthony Caro
Anthony Caro
Sir Anthony Alfred Caro, OM, CBE is an English abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'found' industrial objects.-Background and early life:...
, Toni Catany, Alberto García-Alix, Rebecca Horn
Rebecca Horn
Rebecca Horn is a German installation artist and film director most famous for her body modifications such as Einhorn , a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece, and Pencil Mask, a mesh harness for the head with many pencils projecting out...
, Ñaco Fabré, Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac...
, Imi Knoebel
Imi Knoebel
Imi Knoebel, born Klaus Wolf Knoebel , is a German artist. He is known primarily for his minimalist and abstract painting and sculpture. The "Messerschnitt" or "knife cuts," are a recurring technique he employs, along with his regular use of the primary colors, red, yellow and blue...
, Jorge Mayet, Joan Morey, José María Sicilia and Juan Uslé
Juan Uslé
Juan Uslé is an American / Spanish painter known for his original use of intense color.-Biography:Juan Uslé was born in Santander, Spain in 1954. He lives and works between Saro and New York City. He studied fine art at Escuela Superior de Belles Artes in San Carlos, Valencia from 1973-77.Uslé...
, etc.
The Es Baluard Museu d’Art Modern i Contemporani de Palma collection contains works acquired by the museum each year with the assessment of the Acquisitions Commission (which includes in-house and external experts), works from the institutions that make up the Board (Govern de les Illes Balears (the Balearic Government), Consell de Mallorca (Mallorca Council), Ajuntament de Palma (Palma Municipal Council) and Fundació d’Art Serra, temporary loans from other institutions, businesses, artists and private collections and donations that adhere to the collection’s criteria in all cases.
Exhibitions
2011- Extimacy. Art, intimacy and technology
- Eduardo ArroyoEduardo ArroyoEduardo Arroyo is a Spanish painter and graphic artist. He is also active as an author and set designer.Arroyo, who was born in Madrid, studied art in his home city, but left Spain in 1958 because of his basic contempt for the regime of Francisco Franco and...
. Pintar la literatura (Painting Literature) - Jorge Mayet. Arquitectura para las almas
- Antoni Socías + Caramo Fanta. Mi otro yo con algunas contradicciones
- Julião SarmentoJulião SarmentoJulião Sarmento is a Portuguese multimedia artist and painter.He was born in Lisbon , studied painting and architecture at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts...
. 2000-2010 - Christian BoltanskiChristian BoltanskiChristian Boltanski is French sculptor, photographer, painter and film maker.-Life and work:Having no formal art education, he began painting in 1958. Nevertheless, he first came to public attention in 1960 with few short films and publication of several notebooks...
. Signatures
2010
- Juan UsléJuan UsléJuan Uslé is an American / Spanish painter known for his original use of intense color.-Biography:Juan Uslé was born in Santander, Spain in 1954. He lives and works between Saro and New York City. He studied fine art at Escuela Superior de Belles Artes in San Carlos, Valencia from 1973-77.Uslé...
. Nudos y Rizomas (knots and rhizomes) - The Sites of the Latin American Abstraction. Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection
- Dietrich Klinge. Transformations
- Lou ReedLou ReedLewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock musician, songwriter, and photographer. He is best known as guitarist, vocalist, and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground, and for his successful solo career, which has spanned several decades...
. Romanticism - In Private 2. The unamiable option
- Pep Llambías. Septem
- Alberto García-Alix. Lo más cerca que estuve del paraíso
- The Murmur of the World. From Informalism to the New Abstractions, 1950-2010. Curator: Juan Manuel Bonet
2009
- Anselm KieferAnselm KieferAnselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac...
. Works from Collection Grothe - Power Food
- Study: Mallorca and the Landscape's Renovation
- Robert MapplethorpeRobert MapplethorpeRobert Mapplethorpe was an American photographer, known for his large-scale, highly stylized black and white portraits, photos of flowers and nude men...
- Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. Under the snow
- Juli Ramis visits Picasso, Marie Laurencin, Wifredo Lam, Wols, Archie Gittes, Joan Miró, André Masson, Nicolaes de Staël, Poliakoff, Fautrier.
- Joan Cortés. Memòria de l'aigua (Water's Memory)
- Crossed Landscapes. Views of Es Baluard's Collection
- Joana VasconcelosJoana VasconcelosJoana Vasconcelos was born in Paris and lives and works in Lisbon. Her participation in the 2005 edition of the Venice Bienale has affirmed her career within the international art circuit...
. Garden of Eden #2
2008
- Light Messages. Chema Alvargonzález, Daniel Canogar, Bernardí Roig
- Jason Martin. Nomad
- En privat 1
- Francesca Martí. Echoes
- 80 and Driftings. Glimpses of Es Baluard Collection
- Animar-te. 20 años de animación por ordenador en la UIB
- Joan MiróJoan MiróJoan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...
. Posters
2007
- Santiago CalatravaSantiago CalatravaSantiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zürich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of the world, he has offices in Zürich, Paris, Valencia, and New York City....
- Century of Landscape Painting in the Balearic Islands
- Rusiñol, Passion for Mallorca. From Luminism and Symbolism to the Japanese Print
- Aporia
- Antonio Calvo Carrión
- M+M Collection. Passion for Photography
- Mallorcan Landscapes. The Es Baluard Collection
2006
- Joaquim Mir torna a Mallorca
- Joan MiróJoan MiróJoan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish Catalan painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona.Earning international acclaim, his work has been interpreted as Surrealism, a sandbox for the subconscious mind, a re-creation of the childlike, and a manifestation of Catalan pride...
and Ubú's World. Ubu aux Baléares - Amidament de Joan Coromines by Perejaume
- Jerusalem. Installation by Jaume PlensaJaume PlensaJaime Plensa is an Spanish artist and sculptor.-Biography:Plensa was born at Barcelona. Plensa studied art in his home city, in the "Llotja" School and in the Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes de San Jorge....
- La paraula pintada (The Painted Word)
- Picasso and Books. Bancaja Collection
- Andy WarholAndy WarholAndrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...
2005
- The Games and Paths of Joan BrossaJoan BrossaJoan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo Joan Brossa i Cuervo (Barcelona, Catalonia,(1919–1998) was a Catalan poet in the Catalan language, playwright, graphic designer and plastic artist. He was one of the founders of both the group and the publication known as Dau-al-Set (1948) and one of the...
- ErróErróErró is a postmodern artist. He studied art in Norway and in Italy, and has resided in Paris, Thailand and on the island of Formentera for most of his life...
. Retrospective. 1958-2004 - Planning Shapes. Contemporary Sculptures in the Mallorca Collections
- Becthold 80. Beginnings and Recent Work
2004
- Light Imprisoned int the Belly of the Whale. Rebecca HornRebecca HornRebecca Horn is a German installation artist and film director most famous for her body modifications such as Einhorn , a body-suit with a very large horn projecting vertically from the headpiece, and Pencil Mask, a mesh harness for the head with many pencils projecting out...
- I lavatoi dell’anima. Fabrizio Plessi
- The multiplied gesture: ceramics of Picasso