David Hockney Marc Fumaroli Tim Walker

Alex Gross The 19 th century in the Prado Carlos D. Bustos

W ith the evocative title, “Everybody is nobody for somebody”, the FoundationBanco Santander presents an

exhibition in line with its commitment to render international contemporary art fromgreat private collections, accessible. This exhibition is a magnificent selection of worksfrom the collection created by GrazynaKulczyk with works produced by prominentartists working in Poland between 1945 and1989 in interactions with others executed byrenowned international artists like Sam Francisand Donald Judd from the USA, Annette

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THE GRAZYNAKULCZYK COLECCTIONEverybody is Nobody for Somebody

Federico Echevarría

Opalka self portraits, 1965

Yellow Room, 1970, Teresa Pagoswska

T he MAPFRE Foundation launches itsnew gallery (located on Calle Bárbarade Braganza 13, at the corner of Paseode Recoletos, opposite the National

Library, that is in the Prado-Recoletos axis,where the main cultural institutions in Madridare locate) with an exceptional retrospective exhibition of the work of British photographerVanessa Winship. The exhibition offers a journeythrough the different series that compose herwork, from those first series dedicated to the Balkans to her most recent works, realized in

Almería in 2014, and produced by the MAPFREFoundation which are presented for the first timeon the occasion of this exhibition, organizedaround a chronological journey through each ofthe series that make up her work through a selection of 188 photographs.

From the decade of the nineties, VanessaWinship has worked in zones which, in thecollective imaginary, are associated with unsteadiness and the darkness of a recent past aswell as the volatility of borders and identities.Between 1999 and 2003, during the war in

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VANESSA WINSHIPAna Rimblas Mira

I lived and worked in the region of the Balkans, Turkey and the Caucasus for more than a decade. My work focuses on the junction between chronicle and fiction, exploring ideas around

concepts of borders, land, memory, desire, identity and history. I am interested in the telling of history, and in notions around periphery and edge. For me photography is a process of literacy,

a journey of understandingVanessa Winship

Imagined States and Desires. A Balkan Journey, 2003

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CARLOS DÍEZ BUSTOSA few steps beyond the reality

Jesús Tablate Miquis

Tempus Fugit - I, 2011

Tempus Fugit - IV, 2012

Persevering peacefully on the path classicalculture paved for us.

Continuing in the effort to create, with all the means at our disposal, respecting theart of the past and learning to evolve, makinguse of the great culture that through the centuries of history has been perfected by anumber of geniuses, and serving it as well, butalso delving into our own natural sensitivity. Carlos takes us in a literate, special andgenuine world, full of perfection and virtuosity of a great artist.

J ust like every object has its shadow and isreflected, each era has its own fantasyuniverse. At the heart of our era, which isthe fruit of glorious decades of pop culture, reigns a magic generated in the

test-tubes and alembics of the psychedelic

revolution, without using of course, concoctionsof the witches and diabolical elixirs. A faithfulmirror of trends that have shaken our time, thatis, radically modern, surprising Alex Gross isalso, however, the inheritor of a long tradition.He uses customary and everyday objects to create

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Koshimaki - Osen (detail), 2003

ALEX GROSSPerverted Art

Joaquín Lledó

M y God! What can I say about thegreat Tim Walker? What can I sayabout this exceptional magician,who created imaginative and

thrilling photographs? What he does is purelycreative. Each one of his photographs is full of

magic. In the photographs, the technique, whichis always masterly, is as important as his bold andmarvelous mise-en-scène.

What he does is to create images of tales foradults; surrealist and extravagant tales. Very British as he is, Walker is a storyteller of worlds

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THE MAGIC SCENE

THE GREAT TIM WALKERAna Rimblas Mira

Magical thinking, Xiao Wen in Lanvin, 2011 New York