http://www.alifeinvalencia.com Guide to Valencia Thu, 23 Jun 2011 07:13:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/han-hoogerbrugge-at-the-room-parpallo/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/han-hoogerbrugge-at-the-room-parpallo/#comments Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:52:07 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/han-hoogerbrugge-at-the-room-parpallo/ In La Grande Fête, an interactive installation, Hoogerbrugge portrays the obsessions of contemporary man. To do so, he assembles several characters who represent a large part of the members of the human race that do not want to face up to a social reality full of uncertainties.
So, running away from the anguish this produces, they decide to create their own reality (their own festival). Characters that find evasion in compulsively consuming food, fetishes, violence, etc. and that are plunging either towards destruction or divine revelation.
La Grande Fête has [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/han-hoogerbrugge-at-the-room-parpallo/feed/ 1 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/pablo-valbuena-at-the-room-parpallo/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/pablo-valbuena-at-the-room-parpallo/#comments Thu, 19 Aug 2010 12:33:54 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/pablo-valbuena-at-the-room-parpallo/ Augmented Sculpture is an installation that reflects on the temporary quality of the space and its constant transformation. In this  computer science culpture, Pablo Valbuena raises two levels that explore different aspects from the spatio-temporal reality.
The first level consists of a physical volume that controls the real space and serves as support for the second level, that consists of a virtual layer of projected light to control the transformation and sequencing of the piece. The assembly of both levels brings about the impression of a physical geometry that it can [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/pablo-valbuena-at-the-room-parpallo/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/el-espiritu-futurista-en-la-publicidad-italiana-at-the-muvim/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/el-espiritu-futurista-en-la-publicidad-italiana-at-the-muvim/#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:25:52 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/el-espiritu-futurista-en-la-publicidad-italiana-at-the-muvim/ One of the more interesting movements is that of vanguard, that was developed between the first and second decade of century XX in Italy.
There are more than 80 works, among which there is emphasis on posters of great format, sculptures, books, manifestos, publications and other graphical work, collages and drawings of the most representative authors of this movement (Alberto Bianchi, Aldo Mazza, Alfredo Cavadini, Antonio Maraini, Car it Bompiani, Car it Carrà, Federico Seneca, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Fortunato Depero, [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/el-espiritu-futurista-en-la-publicidad-italiana-at-the-muvim/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/horacio-silva-at-the-city-museum/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/horacio-silva-at-the-city-museum/#comments Tue, 17 Aug 2010 08:53:24 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/horacio-silva-at-the-city-museum/ Horacio Silva has confessed that, at the outset, when they proposed to him this exhibition, he had doubts, a thought that is recognized like one of the majors errors of its race because at present it is enchanting to make this sample.
Although the subject of the exhibition is appellant, the trips continue being a constant for this artist. The exhibition houses pictures not only from the trip to China, but also of others. [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/horacio-silva-at-the-city-museum/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/the-birth-of-a-painting-at-the-fine-arts-museum/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/the-birth-of-a-painting-at-the-fine-arts-museum/#comments Mon, 16 Aug 2010 13:59:49 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/the-birth-of-a-painting-at-the-fine-arts-museum/ This exhibition, through high-resolution infrared reflectography shows underlying drawings made before applying layers of colour from a select group of artists, Spanish, Italian and Flemish from the XV and XVI. These great painters of the past were unable to imagine that future researchers would get look at their designs, which reveal the personality of their strokes, full of vigor and beauty.
The study of these drawings, which have remained hidden for so many years  helps determine the tools and painting materials used by artists, [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/the-birth-of-a-painting-at-the-fine-arts-museum/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/ramon-gayo-at-the-ivam/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/ramon-gayo-at-the-ivam/#comments Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:30:18 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/ramon-gayo-at-the-ivam/ The IVAM is paying tribute to the great artist Ramon Gayo with an exhibition of some of his many masterpieces.
Ramon Gayo is considered to be a painter who writes. His legacy is a pictorial work equipped with a great coherence, that little by little is purified, becoming progressively more essential, painting more and more with less and without ever losing the referring one of the reality.
He is also a connoisseur of the history of art and of very rigorous form, based on deep thought, his singularity teaches us, in his pictures and their [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/ramon-gayo-at-the-ivam/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/wang-xieda-at-the-ivam/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/wang-xieda-at-the-ivam/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:37:19 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/wang-xieda-at-the-ivam/ The exhibition, which is running until 27th August at the IVAM, brings together 14 drawings and 12 sculptures in a journey through his artistic production.A journey that allows you to appreciate the art of this creator, which shies away from tradition and the limits of traditional artistic structures.
The work of Wang Xieda combines the classic ink and paper techniques of traditional calligraphic arts with abstract [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/featured/wang-xieda-at-the-ivam/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-exhibition-palace/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-exhibition-palace/#comments Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:30:05 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/the-exhibition-palace/ It was once part of the various buildings constructed for the Regional Exhibition held in Valencia in 1909, which were mostly were demolished when the contest ended. Only a few buildings were saved from the demolition and were reused for other purposes, including the Palace of the Exposition.
The building was assigned by the City of Valencia to the prestigious architect Francisco Mora Berenguer, who had to build this palace in only seventy days to comply with [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-exhibition-palace/feed/ 0 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/valencian-museum-of-illustration-and-modernity-muvim/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/valencian-museum-of-illustration-and-modernity-muvim/#comments Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:03:32 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/valencian-museum-of-illustration-and-modernity-muvim/ It is located in a stark building, the architectural work of Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra Seville, and falls under the Provincial Council of Valencia.  Dedicated to the field of art known as the beginning of the Enlightenment it also extends its content to include the study and analysis of modernity.  It also has a showroom that plans to integrate part of the program organized by the [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/valencian-museum-of-illustration-and-modernity-muvim/feed/ 1 http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-almudin/ http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-almudin/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 16:35:02 +0000 Valencia Guide http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/the-almudin/ Constructed in the 16th century the El Almudin building in Valencia served as a warehouse. This gave rise to the name “almudin” from Arabic. The structure was used to store the grain for the city.
Originally it would have a much smaller build but it has been expanded over the centuries XV and XVI to take on the appearance it has today. For example, the porch was built in the first half of the sixteenth century and the original building would have had an open central courtyard but  in the early seventeenth century  it was joined by the cover, giving the image of [...]]]> http://www.alifeinvalencia.com/art-and-culture/the-almudin/feed/ 1