Tickets for Fundación Mapfre Madrid Sala Recoletos

Visit the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid, and discover a space for avant-garde culture as well as artistic and documentary photography.Housed in a building designed by architect Agustín Ortiz de Villajos for the Duchess of Medina de las Torres. Following a series of restructuring and upgrading works the exhibition area now covers an area of around 1000 m2, divided into three rooms which are mainly used for exhibiting the plastic arts from the last third of the 19th century through to just after the Second World War. The exhibition rooms opened in the autumn of 2008, coinciding with a new international perspective in our programming following an in-depth review of the modernization of Spanish art between the last third of the 19th century through to the Spanish Civil War.From the September 23 to January 8, there are two temporary exhibitions available: Julio González, Pablo Picasso and the dematerialization of sculpture and Ilse Bing.Julio González, Pablo Picasso and the dematerialization of sculpture: This exhibition deals with one of the great milestones of 20th century art: the collaboration between Julio González and Pablo Picasso. Their joint work is presented within the context that gives rise to a new type of sculpture, in which the traditional concepts of mass and volume give way to a desire for transparency and a tendency towards dematerialization. This new sculpture, which is built on planes, lines and voids, will also incorporate new materials and techniques, such as iron and welding. The exhibition includes some of the key works of modern sculpture, such as the first version of Femme au jardin by Picasso made with the collaboration of González.Ilse Bing: Ilse Bing's photography traverses the central decades of the 20th century, leaving testimony to the great cultural and artistic concerns of those years, through a very personal perspective and conception, in which modernity and formal innovation go hand in hand with a humanist and a strong social conscience. Bing is also another outstanding example of a generation of great female photographers who, like Berenice Abbott, Nora Dumas or Gisèle Freund, among others, gained visibility and recognition hitherto forbidden to women in the field of photography.Dispersed among numerous European and North American collections, Ilse Bing's work is made known for the first time in Spain with this exhibition, which covers her entire career.