Es Baluard

It Baluart is the new Museum of the city of Palma de Mallorca for modern and contemporary art.

In the Catalan language baluard means " stronghold " and thus refers to the location and the historical function of the at this point originally located building. On behalf Baluard also the importance of a bastion of art resonates.

Location

The museum is located in a corner bastion of the Renaissance city walls, on the Paseo Maritimo of Palma de Mallorca on the Balearic island of Mallorca.

Description

The museum was built as a new building inside an old fortification of the Renaissance city walls. Known as Baluart de Sant Pere fortress in the old town of Palma was in a state of disrepair. The willingness of the municipality to provide this bastion for the construction of a museum of modern and contemporary art available, sparked the space required for the art collections and contributed to the urban dynamic of the entire zone at.

The museum with a total area of ​​5,000 m² is connected at various levels by different routes with the city. It is spread over three floors, the different levels are connected by ramps, balconies and galleries, skylights allow daylight one. One route leads from the city by the Porta de Santa Catalina with the viewpoint towards the sea and from there to the Sant Pere and the shore Paseo Marítimo. About another way to get to the top area of the city wall, from which the bay of Palma and the museum itself can be overlooked. Thus, a visit to the museum allows the artistic appeal at the same time visiting a historical monument, open terraces whose spectacular views over the city and the bay, to Bellver Castle and the Cathedral.

Exhibitions

2013

  • Mallorca and interpretation of the landscape. Works from the Baluard 's collection
  • Llorenç Ginard. Sculptures
  • José Manuel Broto. Great Scores
  • Cabinet: Pep Bonet
  • Reproductibilitat 1.0

2012

  • Esther Ferrer. In four movements
  • Realities / Fictions. Works from It Baluart 's collection
  • Joan Bennàssar. The wine I drink tastes of the sea
  • Toni Catany. Works from the Baluard 's collection
  • Pictorial fragment, 1980-2010. Insights into the collection of Baluard
  • The Perception of Space. Works from the Baluard 's collection
  • Biblioteca Nacional de España. Otras Miradas

2011

  • Extimacy. Art, intimacy and technology
  • Eduardo Arroyo. Pintar la literatura ( Painting Literature)
  • Jorge Mayet. Arquitectura para las almas
  • Antoni Socías Caramo Fanta. Mi otro yo con algunas contradicciones
  • Juliao Sarmento. 2000-2010
  • Christian Boltanski. signatures
  • Vis-a -vis. Views of It Baluart 's collection
  • Los Carpinteros. Handwork - Constructing the World. Works from the Thyssen- Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection

2010

  • Juan Uslé. Nudos y Rizomas ( knots and rhizomes )
  • The Sites of Latin American Abstraction the. Ella Fontanals - Cisneros Collection
  • Dietrich Klinge. Transformations
  • Lou Reed. Romanticism
  • In Private 2 The unamiable option
  • Pep Llambías. September
  • Alberto García -Alix. Lo que más cerca del estuve paraíso
  • The Murmur of the World. From informalism to the New Abstractions, 1950-2010. Curator: Juan Manuel Bonet

2009

  • Anselm Kiefer. Works from Grothe Collection
  • Power Food
  • Study: Mallorca and the Landscape 's renovation
  • Robert Mapplethorpe
  • Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. Under the snow
  • July Ramis visits Picasso, Marie Laurencin, Wifredo Lam, wolf, Archie Gittes, Joan Miró, André Masson, Nicolaes de Stael, Poliakoff, Fautrier.
  • Joan Cortés. Memòria de l' aigua ( Water's Memory)
  • Crossed Landscapes. Views of Baluart There 's Collection
  • Joana Vasconcelos. Garden of Eden # 2

2008

  • Light Messages. Chema Alvargonzález, Daniel Canogar, Bernardí Roig
  • Jason Martin. Nomad
  • En privately 1
  • Francesca Martí. Echoes
  • 80 and Driftings. Glimpses of Baluard Collection
  • Animar - te. 20 años de animación por ordenador en la UIB
  • Joan Miró. Posters

2007

  • Santiago Calatrava
  • Century of Landscape Painting in the Balearic Islands
  • Rusinol, Passion for Mallorca. From Luminism and Symbolism to the Japanese Print
  • Aporia
  • Antonio Calvo Carrión
  • M M Collection. Passion for Photography
  • Mallorcan Landscapes. The Baluard Collection

2006

  • Joaquim Mir torna a Mallorca
  • Joan Miró and Ubú 's World. Ubu aux Baléares
  • Amidament de Joan Coromines by Perejaume
  • Jerusalem. Installation by Jaume Plensa
  • La paraula pintada ( The Painted Word)
  • Picasso and Books. Bancaja Collection
  • Andy Warhol

2005

  • The Games and Paths of Joan Brossa
  • Erró. Retrospective. 1958-2004
  • Planning shapes. Contemporary Sculptures in the Mallorca Collections
  • Becthold 80th Beginnings and Recent Work

2004

  • Light Imprisoned int the Belly of the Whale. Rebecca Horn
  • I lavatoi dell'anima. Fabrizio Plessi
  • The multiplied gesture: ceramics of Picasso

Events

Other features of the museum include cultural and educational activities. The main objective of management is to expand the collections and make them known to strive for a high level of audience nearby. , Providing special tours and workshops for families to make the youngest familiar with the technique of artistic creation, and the parents All these activities are free, as are the lectures in the museum program.

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