The city of Seville opens a new season of cultural events that otherwise augurs a large number of free plans, from the White Night, the Architecture Week to interesting free exhibitions in Seville. Lovers of all the arts are invited to visit this catalog of exhibitions in Seville.
Photography, engravings, painting and integral experiences to know in depth great contemporary artists and their vision of the world.
1. The power of women. Echoes of the Weibermacht in the Mariano Moret Collection*.
The Weibermacht or Women’s Power is a social and cultural phenomenon that acquired a singular development in the Germanic area and in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
It became an artistic and literary topos depicting certain heroes and great men of Antiquity and the Holy Scriptures succumbing to women. In these representations women use their cunning and beauty to dominate and ridicule them.
Thus arose, as a reaction against this current of thought that vindicates women, a myriad of prints dedicated to mocking them and warning of the danger they posed to men.
This exhibition brings together some fifty of these works of extraordinary rarity by engravers of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, together with a set of paintings from the museum’s collection that provide an interesting contrast and a touch of color.
*This is one of the exhibitions of the Museum of Fine Arts of Seville that can be visited free of charge by citizens of the European Union and members of ICOM. 1.5 euros general admission.
📅 Until October 1, 2023.
📍Plaza del Museo, 9
2. Alba and Carter, 100 years discovering Tutankhamun.
Alba and Carter. Cien años descubriendo a Tutankhamun presents two unique elements around this unusual find. On the one hand, the details of the discovery, more than a hundred years ago, of Tutankhamun’s tomb. On the other hand, the role played by the Duke of Alba, in the 1920s, in bringing to Spain the English archaeologist who discovered the tomb of the famous Egyptian pharaoh.
This exhibition divided into six blocks is one of the two exhibitions that can be visited for free at the Cajasol Foundation in Seville.
📅 Until October 1. Monday to Saturday from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm and from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Closed on Sundays and holidays.
📍Vanguardia Hall of the Cajasol Foundation (c/Álvarez Quintero)
3. Nikola Tesla. The genius of modern electricity*.
The exhibition Nikola Tesla. The genius of modern electricity traces the life and work of the Serbian engineer, a key figure in the history of science thanks to the development of inventions that marked the 20th century. With this exhibition, CaixaForum Seville recognizes the work of this brilliant inventor, to whom we owe contributions such as the invention of the induction motor, the development of alternating current as a source of energy and the wireless transmission of energy and information.
This is the first exhibition that can be seen in Spain, co-produced in collaboration with the Nikola Tesla Museum. It aims to show the reality and legends that revolve around the founder of modern technology, the lights and shadows around the genius.
The visitor will be able to observe operating electromechanical modules that allow to reproduce the operation of the devices and ingenuities devised by Tesla. Most of them are replicas of original devices, although there are also those of Tesla’s own production, developed to show in a didactic and clear way some of the physical principles behind Tesla’s creations.
* We include the exhibition among the free exhibitions in Seville for its cultural relevance although it is free for Caixabank customers and children under 16 years.
📅 From July 12 to November 5.
📍c/ López Pintado (next to Torre Sevilla)
4. Essentia Formalis / foams, rocks and ink.
Rafael Ortiz Gallery presents on September 20 its new exhibition of Nico Munuera, “Essentia Formalis / foams, rocks and ink”, which takes the name of one of the central pieces. With these words they detail in the note the essence of the work that can be enjoyed until November 17.
“It is a work apparently far from the traditional format of the painting installed on the wall, and that presents in its horizontal surface, an encounter with the intuitive processes and relationships that occur naturally in the studio.
Ways of relating formal and temporal situations, which determine the construction of thought in its rational and intuitive evolution, that make up the painting.
The fragile, white and fleeting foam that hits itself incessantly. The ink, ethereal, almost on the verge of disappearing, but firmly defining forever the limits on paper. Painting, which like the experience and connection with nature, continues to move us deeply. Painting that screams in a whisper. A language perfectly understandable and accurate for each of us, but absolutely untranslatable.”
📅 From September 20 to November 17, 2023. Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 1:30 pm and from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Saturdays from 10:00 to 13:30 hours.
📍 Rafael Ortiz Gallery (c/ Mármoles, 12)
5. Three legs for a table
Another exhibition that can be enjoyed free of charge in Seville is in charge of the artists Ana Aydillo, Celia Marquez and Manuela Báscon. Three legs for a table is visited in the Casa de la Provincia and it is a collective portrait that they approach from three essential and inherent aspects of the human being.
The most sensitive and voluptuous with the work of Ana Aydillo, which leads us to reflect on hedonistic aspects. Celia Márquez, with her spiritual-symbolic work, makes us meditate on the world of beliefs and, therefore, of skepticism. And the rational, controlling tendency that leads to a consideration of stoic thought by Manuela Bascón.
📅 From September 7 to October 8, 2023. Tuesday to Saturday from 10:00 to 14:00 and 18:00 to 21:00. Sundays and holidays from 10:00 to 14:00. Mondays closed.
📍House of the Province (Plaza del Triunfo, 1. Romero Murube Hall).
6. Nighthawk
In the exhibition entitled “Nighthawk” by talented contemporary artist María Luisa Beneytez, viewers are transported into a world of artistic expression that pays homage to American residential architecture.
As visitors delve into this intriguing collection, they embark on a journey through neighborhoods, through the periphery of an anonymous city, a direct tribute to the figure of Edward Hopper, to his way of understanding art and to the honesty of which he was a banner throughout his career.
📅 From September 16 to October 28, 2023. Monday to Friday from 5:30 pm to 9:00 pm. Saturdays from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm.
📍Zunino Gallery (Cuesta del Rosario, 8, house 1 1ºL)
7. Everybody Fame. Hubertus Von Hohenlohe
FAMA Everybody. Hubertus Von Hohenlohe is a collection that brings together the best of the photographic work of Hubertus Von Hohenlohe, a multifaceted creator closely linked to our land. It is a work of great visual impact and clear references to Pop Art and the current selfie culture .
“His work works as a radiography of today’s society and the contemporary city, it has to do with the advance of digitalization, cell phones and social networks. If we analyze further, his work makes us think about how our society has changed.”
This exhibition remains composed of a set of 49 photographs in which viewers will be able to immerse themselves in the artist’s distinctive pop art style. It also includes the many self-portraits he took of many of the celebrities who have surrounded the aristocrat and his personal vision of different cities around the world, including Seville and Malaga.
“This collection, of overwhelming visual power, is also a compilation of some of the characteristics of our time marked by technology, such as narcissism, speed or self-indulgence.”
📅 Through October 14. Monday to Saturday from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm and from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. Sundays and holidays closed.
📍Velázquez Hall of the Cajasol Foundation (c/Álvarez Quintero).