Disfrutar
in the Alhambra

The Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife (PAG), the Sociedad Estatal de Acción Cultural and the “la Caixa” Foundation have organised a Lectures in which the impact of the Nasrid Monumental Complex on the work of Henri Matisse will be analysed. The series of lectures will be held at two locations, at the CaixaForum in Madrid, from 17 to 19 January 2011, and at the Palace of Charles V in Granada, from 16 to 18 February 2011. At this last mentioned location you can also visit the exhibition Matisse and the Alhambra (1910-2010). The admission to this event is free until full up the limited number of places.
The lectures will recreate the history of the fascination Matisse felt for the Oriental world, which in terms of his biography is coinciding partly with the transcendental encounter his visit to the Alhambra at 11 December 1910 would mean to him.
Among the outstanding experts will participate María del Mar Villafranca, PAG Director, and Francisco Jarauta, Full Professor of Philosophy, University of Murcia, who will chair the series of lectures, as well as Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, General Curator of the Heritage of France, Tomas Llorens, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum chief curator, Kosme de Barañano, Full Professor of Art History, Miguel Hernández University of Elche, Spain, and Tatiana Pigariova, Cultural Manager at Moscow’s Cervantes Institute. Villafranca and Jarauta are also the curators of the exhibition, which is open to the public until 28 February 2011.
The event will deepen the knowledge about the relation between Matisse and aesthetics and Islamic art, about the painter’s creative talent from a certain artistic experience, which is strongly rooted in cultural heritage and a mix between tradition and modernity, history and avant-garde. The artistic repertoire of the Islamic art is being adapted and transformed by the artist and always present in his work.
Matisse and the Alhambra (1910-2010). Series of lectures
CaixaForum Madrid
Monday 17 January, 19:30
Matisse y La Alhambra: Centenario de un viaje (‘Matisse and the Alhambra: Centenary of a journey’)
María del Mar Villafranca Jiménez, Director-General of the Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife
Tuesday 18 January, 19:30
El Oriente de Matisse (‘Matisse’s Orient’)
Francisco Jarauta, Full Professor of Philosophy, University of Murcia
Wednesday 19 January, 19:30
“Mise aux carreaux”. El motivo de la odalisca de 1921 a 1935 (‘The odalisque motif 1921-1935’)
Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, General Curator of the Heritage of France
Palace of Charles V. Alhambra of Granada
Wednesday, 16 February
17:00. Institutional opening
17:30. María Del Mar Villafranca Jiménez, Director-General of the Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife
Matisse y La Alhambra: Centenario de un viaje (‘Matisse and the Alhambra: Centenary of a journey’)
19:00. Kosme de Barañano, Full Professor of Art History, Universidad Miguel Hernández of Elche
Matisse e Iturrino (‘Matisse and Iturrino’)
Thursday, 17 February
17:00. Tatiana Pigariova, Cultural Manager at Moscow’s Cervantes Institute
Matisse en el coleccionismo ruso (‘Matisse in Russian collections’)
18.30. Tomás Llorens, Chief Curator of the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza
La ventana y las ninfas (‘The window and the nymphs’)
Friday, 18 February
17:00. Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, General Curator of the Heritage of France
Las Odaliscas de Matisse (‘Matisse’s odalisques’)
18:30. Francisco Jarauta, Full Professor of Philosophy, University of Murcia
El Oriente de Matisse (‘Matisse’s Orient’)

exhibition