CaixaForum Barcelona

 Unique occasion in Barcelona, until February 5, to contemplate 63 masterpieces of the painting, from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, exposed with an innovative criterion that makes them even more impressive.

CaixaForum Barcelona

There are two months left to enjoy at CaixaForum Barcelona the Un Thyssen unseen exhibition. A new collaboration of the “la Caixa” Obra Social and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, which has made it possible to travel to Barcelona the largest selection of works that have never left their rooms.

Eight reasons not to miss it

1. By unrepeatable, since it is 63 fundamental works of pictorial art that will never return together to Barcelona. And because of these works, 42 have never been exposed in the city or have not been seen in the last twenty-five years. And because it is the first time that the Madrid art gallery authorizes such a large loan of his best works.

2. Because this “little Thyssen” is different. The works are presented in an unprecedented order that allows another perspective. Fra Angelico lives with El Greco and Marc Chagall; Hans Memling with Titian and Lucian Freud; Jan Brueghel with Gustave Courbet and Emil Nolde; And Canaletto with Camille Pissarro and Wassily Kandinsky.

3. Because it is not an anthology of the exposed painters, but a “new reading” of a fundamental part of the Thyssen collection based on five genres: “religious painting, portraiture, still life, landscape and urban landscape”. Chronological order and schools are broken, schemas are broken and authors are mixed, works are sought to dialogue with each other.

The curator of the exhibition and director of the Thyssen Museum, Guillermo Solana explains it this way: “It is a criterion that offers the advantage of being transversal and that allows to compare masterpieces that has never been seen in this way.” This “dialogue” allows, for example, exceptional comparisons. “The Annunciation” of Veronés exposed to the side “The Annunciation” of El Greco. The containment of the first along with the expressive overflow of the second.

4. Because it can be enjoyed with ironic coincidences. The portrait painted by Adriaen Thomasz Key of “William I, prince of Orange”, has by neighbor the “Portrait of a young lady with rosary”, work of Rubens. Well, William’s wife was found in flagrant adultery with Rubens’s father!

5. Because all the works of the show are of great figures, of artists of maximum level. Among them, four of the most outstanding pieces of Thyssen: “Harlequin with Mirror”, by Picasso; “Hotel Room” by Hopper; “Clouds of Summer” by Nolde and “The brook Brème”, by Gustave Courbet that, according to Commissioner Solana is: “The best painting of the nineteenth century in the museum.”

6. Because pictures, like books, are an inexhaustible source of experiences. As many times as you look, so many discoveries of new facets, impressions, feelings.

7. Because CaixaForum Barcelona offers its visitors the possibility of commented visits to the temporary exhibitions and the modernist building with the accompaniment and guide of an educator of the center.

8. And because, in addition to family visits and coinciding with the Christmas holidays, there are family shows, such as “For Christmas, Tales of the World”, “Concerto a tempo d’umore” and “The Trojan War”. A cultural visit in a day for the whole family.

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Catalan biotechnology

The Catalan Aelix achieved 11.5 million euros to create a vaccine against AIDS

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Aelix Therapeutics, the company created the first development consortium Hivacat HIV treatments, has secured funding of 11.5 million euros earmarked for their research to create a therapeutic vaccine immunogen -from HTI-, “the first one you can cure infection in a patient. ” In investing, led by Ysios Capital (venture capital specialized in life sciences based in Barcelona), participated the equity manager of La Caixa, Caixa Capital Risc, and the US fund Innovation Johnson & Johnson. Aelix Therapeutics is led by renowned scientists: its founders are Dr. Bonaventura Clotet, Josep Maria Gatell, Christian Brander and biotechnology entrepreneur Jordi Naval.

Besides the medical challenge of this operation (more than 36.9 million people have HIV in the world), its characters include a major landmark in science model of excellence in Catalonia: first, a project It involves cutting edge science (Can Ruti and hospital Clinic), local industry (Esteve), public capital (research budgets Generalitat, Government and European Union), philanthropic (Obra Social La Caixa) and private (Ysios, Caixa Capital Risc) has He has been able to attract international capital (Johnson & Johnson). “It is an example of the contribution of all actors in the Catalan scientific industry. This is already happening in Tel Aviv or Boston, and now in Barcelona, ​​”says Josep Lluís Sanfeliu, Ysios Capital partner.

Aelix working on a therapeutic vaccine. That is, “retrains the patient’s immune system. There are a dozen companies in the world with different approaches to it, all in early stages, “says Jordi Naval. “It’s a hot topic, working from different angles, and the data is good.” Aelix vision anticipates fewer side effects in patients and significantly reduced the cost of treatment. “This is our aim, still have to prove it, some time before the product reaches the market,” he added.

With the money earned now, Aelix be reached until 2019 to carry out studies to assess the safety and efficacy in infected patients, equivalent to Phase II clinical study. He has so far tested in animals, and later this year will begin testing in healthy volunteers and patients. “Then, depending on the results, we will think how to complete the trial with the phase III (involving thousands of patients in various countries is different scale), if investors, or a pharmaceutical incorporated”.

Hivacat is a consortium of public-private research created in 2006 by two research centers in more developed AIDS and international reference, the AIDS Research Institute IrsiCaixa-Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol-Can Ruti (who runs Bonaventura Clotet ) and the Department of Infectious Diseases and AIDS of Hospital Clínic de Barcelona (Josep Maria Gatell).

In 2009 the Esteve pharmaceutical joined the Obra Social La Caixa and the Generalitat, through the departments of Health and Economy and Coneixement, and the Clinic Foundation. Hivacat coordinator is the researcher Christian Brander, Harvard hired by the Generalitat Icrea program. Since its founding twenty years ago, IrsiCaixa has received 3.1 million euros from the Obra Social La Caixa.

Hivacat has launched eight lines of research addressing major obstacles in the development of HIV vaccines, both preventive and therapeutic. “One of the projects is the therapeutic vaccine candidate HTI. In 2014 came to a point that needed a high volume of investment and decided to form a spin-off that acquires the rights and seeks private investment, “says Naval, companies with experience in the health sector and current director of the Foundation Bosch i Gimpera).

Ysios participated in the development of the business model and has led the investment round (the bottom Ysios Biofund II provides 3.75 million) with Caixa Capital Risc, a regular partner in the main operations of the sector, and Johnson & Johnson Innovation. The operation has been advised by the law firm RCD. Aelix joined his advice to Karen Wagner, Ysios; Jose Antonio Mesa, Caixa Capital Risc; Jordi Naval, co-founder and a representative of JJDC. The company currently has a team of four people in the Parc Cientific Barcelona.

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An exhibition of Picasso and Dali, jewel of Barcelona’s season in 2015

The Catalan capital will also include retrospectives dedicated to the Moche culture, still lifes Golden Age Spanish or Alvar Aalto

Portrait of Picasso In 1947 Dalí painted this fantastic piece of 64.1 x 54.7 inches portraying his colleague Pablo Ruiz Picasso. Both painters met on the first trip from Salvador to Paris, back in 1926 and exhibited works together on more than one occasion.

An exhibition on the relationship between Picasso and Dali is one of the main attractions of the artistic season start 2015 in Barcelona, which will also feature retrospectives dedicated to the Moche culture, still lifes Golden Age Spanish or Alvar Aalto.

Since March, the Museo Picasso show at the exhibition “Picasso / Dali. Dali / Picasso” the relationship between the two geniuses of universal art of the twentieth century, illustrated from eighty pieces, including paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures.

In this first confrontation of the work of the two artists their relationship is drawn from the first trip to Paris Dali during the spring of 1926, when the painter ampurdanés visited the studio of Malaga, until its matching response to the barbarity of war Spanish civil or ideological disagreement from the 40s.

Another milestone of the Barcelona artistic season will be the exhibition “Gold, myths and rituals. Mochica Culture of Ancient Peru”, a project to display 200 masterpieces of pre-Columbian art from the Museo Larco Herrera, from pottery vessels textiles and jewelery to pieces and feathers.

CaixaForum remember from February the 25th anniversary of animation film studio Pixar, a show that started at the MOMA in New York in 2005 and over the years has grown to show audiences of all ages the scenes of feature animation company, with emblematic works like “Toy Story,” “Monsters,” “Cars” or “Ratatouille”.

The same cultural space Caixa will value between May and August the work of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), a key figure in architecture and design vanguard of the twentieth century; and display between June and September the exhibition “Animals, men and gods. The bestiary in Pharaonic Egypt,” which is on display at CaixaForum Madrid in the first half.

The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) deployed from October 2015 a sample of fifteen lifes of Spanish artists of the Golden Age, including Juan de Zurbaran, Juan van der Hamen or Juan de Arellano, from a private collection , some of which will join the permanent collection and will be exhibited at the new presentation of art from Renaissance and Baroque, which will open in 2016.

Between June and October, the Tàpies Foundation will make a retrospective look at the work of Antoni Tàpies from the 1940s until his death in 2012, with emphasis on the evolution of typologies, techniques and materials used by the artist.

The Miró Foundation shine a new major project throughout 2015, with the rethinking of its permanent collection, which will incorporate new works.

This center will offer from March the exhibition “Prophetia”, which will showcase works by artists from all over Europe to reflect on Europe from the current economic, political and social crisis.

In season MACBA the exhibition “Proletarian Chamber Theatre” dedicated to Argentine Osvaldo Lamborghini (Buenos Aires, 1940 – Barcelona, 1985), which presents for the first time in a museum, the most comprehensive anthology of his artistic works, allowing understand the radicality of this artist stabbing still uncharted by the aesthetic accounts of the eighties.

The CCCB presented in March “The Sebald variations,” an exhibition that will take the German writer WG Sebald, author of some of the fundamental books of our new century, as a thread of a question mark on the history of the twentieth century and its projections in the XXI.

The exhibition will coincide with the Kosmópolis literary festival will be a count of the different ways that Sebald’s work has influenced the visual arts and literature since 2001.

In the field of photography, highlight two proposals that will review the work of Leopoldo Pomès, Xavier Miserachs and Gabriel Homes in La Pedrera, the MACBA and the MNAC respectively.

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