Is a dream what the old Continent really needs?

Probably it is not just a case that two exhibitions dedicated to the same topic, the dream, opened a few days ago in the old and always too divided Europe. The first one, at the Musée du Luxembourg until January 26th, is a focus on the Renaissance period. Curators Chiara Rabbi-Bernard and Alessandro Cecchi have done a great job. Most of all because, along with main works and drawings by Correggio, Bosh, Veronese and El Greco among the others, they have also included a few enlightening documents, such as, for example, the little book next to the portrait of Francesco I De Medici – in which a renaissance night party is described – or a poetry written by Michelangelo himself. In case like that a good relation between form and information is a rare plus which can really turn a common show in a genuine anthropological experience.

 

The other exhibition, at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, is basically an homage to the love devoted to cinema by minor Surrealists such as Claude Cahun, Kay Sage, Nadja, Toyen, Dora Maar, Leonor Fini, Remedios Varo, Dorothea Tanning, Ángeles Santos, Meret Oppenheim and Leonora Carrington.

 

Now Madrid and Paris are closer to each other.

July 15, 2015