Lacasta design exhibition design

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSYVES SAINT LAURENT. LINE AND EXPRESSION — MUSÈE YVES SAINT LAURENT  MARRAKECH

After the celebration in 2022 of the 60th anniversary of Yves Saint Laurent’s first fashion show, in which the studio collaborated in the exhibition Yves Saint Laurent aux Musèes, we are once again designing an exhibition graphic dedicated to the figure of the French couturier. The exhibition Yves Saint Laurent: Line and Expression (Traits Portrait), organized by the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech. It focuses on the corpus of the designer’s graphic work, exploring the genesis of his recognizable silhouettes, both the preparatory drawings and the final illustrations of his collections.

 

Curated by Olivier Saillard and Gaël Mamine, who worked closely with Saint Laurent (Saillard was the curator of the important exhibition 1971: La collection du scandale), they have selected the most relevant works among the more than 60,000 drawings that are preserved and which are on display for the first time in Marrakech, the city where the couturier spent long annual stays.

 

The exhibition can be visited at the Musée YSL Marrakech until January 28th 2024.

mision region fotografias madrid

BOOKREGION: LANDSCAPE, PHOTOGRAPHY AND HERITAGE — COMUNIDAD DE MADRID

This book demonstrates that landscape is also heritage and should be documented. For them, the Community of Madrid, inspired by the photographic missions of the 20th century in the United States, has proposed an unprecedented mission: that 17 photographers and 16 photographers portray 179 municipalities, providing a contemporary vision of the landscape beyond geographical or aesthetic features, but as a testimony of the customs, traditions and economic structures of urban development.

 

Mission Region: Landscape, Photography and Heritage, which has been selected as one of the Best Photography Books of 2023 by PHotoEspaña, has the artistic direction of Paco Gómez, the scientific direction of Mónica Luengo and the technical direction of David Rejano, Head of the Area of Dissemination and Heritage Education of the Sub-Directorate General of Historical Heritage.

LE CRI DE LIBERTÉ. CHAGALL POLITIQUE

CATALOGUECRY OF FREEDOM. CHAGALL AND POLITICS — ROUBAIX LA PISCINE

This exhibition, for which we have designed the catalogue, presents Marc Chagall’s work from a historical perspective, related to the political events he witnessed (two world wars and the subsequent exile) through unpublished documents from the artist’s personal archive, which will be on view at the Roubaix La Piscine (André Diligent Art and Industrial Museum) until January 7th 2024 at Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid and at the Musée Chagall in Nice.

 

The exhibition has been made possible thanks to a co-production with Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid and the Musée National Marc Chagall in Nice, and is curated by Ambre Gauthier and Meret Meyer. The catalogue is published by the prestigious French publishing house Gallimard.

gilles aillaud

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSGILLES AILLAUD. POLITICAL ANIMAL — CENTRE POMPIDOU 

At a time when artists, scientists, philosophers and politicians are showing their concern for ecology, it is curious to discover that the relatively unknown work of the French painter Gilles Aillaud has been dealing with these issues since the mid-1960s.

 

Didier Ottinger, deputy director of the Musée national d’art moderne and curator of the exhibition for which we have designed the exhibition graphics, states that “Gilles Aillaud became a painter because he could not become a philosopher. His paintings of animals reflect our relationship with nature, which imposes itself as his only true subject”.

 

The exhibition will be on view at the Centre Pompidou from October 4th, 2023 to February 26th, 2024.

new york memories

BOOKNEW YORK MEMORIES — IVORYPRESS

Taking Joe Brainard’s book ‘I Remember’ as a reference, Bob Colacello, the legendary editor of Interview magazine, founded by Andy Warhol in 1969, tells us in this book all the things he has not forgotten about the New York of the seventies and eighties.

 

The texts, accompanied by photographs by David Jiménez, and with a design by Lacasta Design, this book is the fourth to form part of the Ivorypress Cities Collection (the previous ones are dedicated to Venice, Rome and Madrid).

picasso escultor museo picasso malaga

CATALOGUEPICASSO SCULPTOR. MATTER AND BODY — MUSEO PICASSO MÁLAGA

We are joining in the celebration of the Picasso year to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of this universal artist with a new catalogue dedicated to his work, in this case sculpture (we have already produced the catalogue for his exhibition Picasso Íbero, at the Centro Botín in Santander, in 2021). After visiting the Museo Picasso Málaga, the exhibition will be on view at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao until January 14th 2024.

 

With texts by curator Carmen Giménez, Pepe Karmel, Diana Widmaier-Ruiz-Picasso, the publication is co-published by Fundación Museo Picasso Málaga (Legado Paul, Christine and Bernard Ruiz-Picasso), Guggenheim Museum and La Fábrica.

Lacasta Design Antonio López La Pedrera

CATALOGUEANTONIO LÓPEZ — LA PEDRERA

We are very happy to have designed the catalogue for the first retrospective monographic exhibition of Antonio López in Barcelona, which will be on view at La Pedrera until early 2024. In total, it contains 176 pages including a hundred or so works in the exhibition, as well as texts by Beatriz Hidalgo, Albert Mercadé, Toine Moerbeek and Violant Porcel. This is a unique opportunity to gain first-hand knowledge of the career, now almost seventy years old, of the greatest representative of Spanish realism in the second half of the 20th century and the first quarter of the 21st century.

 

The exhibition, structured in thematic blocks, can be visited until January 14th 2024.

Lacasta Design

CATALOGUELETTERS OF LIGHT — LOUVRE ABU DHABI

The Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum presents the temporary exhibition Letters of Light, for which we have designed the catalogue in three editions: English, French and Arabic. The publication, a faithful reflection of the exhibition, explores the birth of the three monotheisms and their dissemination through the Holy Books of the three Abrahamic religions: the Qur’an, the Torah, the Christian Bible (Old and New Testament) and the Hebrew Bible (Tanakh).

 

The exhibition displays some of the most beautiful examples of the sacred books and manuscripts, carefully chosen by its two curators: Laurent Héricher, Chief Curator of the Department of Oriental Manuscripts at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, and Dr. Souraya Noujaim, scientific, Curatorial and Management Director of the Louvre Abu Dhabi Collections.

 

It can be visited from September 13th to January 14th 2024.

corps a corpos histoires de la photographie

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSCORPS À CORPS. HISTOIRES DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE — CENTRE POMPIDOU

The exhibition Corps à corps. Histoires de la photographie, for which we have created the exhibition graphics at the Centre Pompidou, brings together more than 500 photographs and documents by around 120 photographers with the human body as a common thread, offering an original perspective (beyond the usual themes such as portraiture or the nude) of photographic representations of the human genre in the 20th and 21st centuries.

 

Through 7 different blocks, with suggestive titles centred on individuality or identity, the curator Jukie Jones connects part of the Pompidou’s photography collection with works from the private collection of the filmmaker and great collector of photography Marin Karmitz.

 

We recommend the podcast explaining the exhibition, which will be on view until 25th March 2024.

Carrie Mae Weems reflections for now

CATALOGUECARRIE MAE WEEMS. REFLECTIONS FOR NOW — BARBICAN GALLERY

After designing the catalogue for her work Carrie Mae Weems. A Great Turn in the Possible, chosen as one of the best photobooks of 2022 by The New York Times, Time and The Guardian, we are once again collaborating with the African-American artist, commissioning the new catalogue for her exhibition Reflections for Now, a publication that accompanies her exhibition at the Barbican Gallery, the largest exhibition of her work to date. Curated by the Spaniard Raúl Muñoz de la Vega and Florence Ostende, the exhibition will subsequently travel to Kunstmuseum Basel under the title The Evidence of Things Not Seen, curated by Maja Wisner.

 

Edited by Hatje Cantz, this book is the first dedicated to the writings of Carrie Mae Weems and includes a selection of texts, interviews and images of photographs by the artist, who has been awarded the prestigious Hasselblad 2023 Prize, considered the Nobel Prize of photography.

tomas saraceno serpentine

CATALOGUETOMÁS SARACENO. WEB(S) OF LIFE — SERPENTINE GALLERY

Web(s) of Life is the first UK exhibition of Argentinean artist Tomás Saraceno. Located in the gardens of Serpentine Galleries in London and curated by Lizzie Carey-Thomas and Chris Bayley, it is halfway between installation and performance, investigating and questioning human habits and relationships with the environment and in public space.

 

The catalogue, co-published by Ivorypress and Serpentine, completes Saraceno’s vision thanks to contributions by writers, artists and researchers such as Graciela Speranza, Maristella Svampa, Marisol de la Cadena, Eduardo Kohn, Arturo Escobar, Yuk Hui and James Bridle, as well as two unpublished texts by the artist.

 

The format of the book is designed to minimize the carbon footprint and paper waste in its production. The cover paper is handmade at the Paper Mill Museum in Capellades, and includes up to 17 seeds of different native flowers. The scrubbing carried out on the cover allows part of it to be replanted.

 

In this video the artist himself explains the project, which can be visited from June 1st to September 10th, 2023.

Anastasia Samoylova

CATALOGUEIMAGE CITIES. ANASTASIA SAMOYLOVA — FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE

We are pleased to announce that we have designed the catalogue for the Image Cities project by Russian-American photographer Anastasia Samoylova. It is the winning entry of the first edition of the international KBr Photo Award, an initiative of Fundación MAPFRE that started in 2021.

 

This catalogue (edited by Hatje Cantz) accompanies the exhibition, curated by Victoria del Val and with texts by David Campany, in which the main theme revolves around the integration of photography or images (especially billboards) in the urban environment, producing surprising visual effects.

 

The exhibition can be visited from June 1st to August 27th, 2023 at Sala Recoletos, the headquarters of Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid.

Lacasta Design Roni Horn

CATALOGUERONI HORN: I AM PARALYZED WITH HOPE — CENTRO BOTÍN SANTANDER

The artist Roni Horn has been working intensely for almost four decades on nature, landscape, climate, culture and, in short, the transformative experience of travel for the individual. She is now presenting an exhibition at the Centro Botín in Santander, designed by herself, which reviews her career, and we have participated in designing the catalogue, which has been published by La Fábrica, and which includes texts by its curator, Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz (including an interview with Horn), the American writer Carmen María Machado and the Spanish curator, researcher and writer Isabel de Naverán.

 

The exhibition will be on view from April 1st to September 10th 2023.

Lacasta Design

CATALOGUELYNETTE YIADOM- BOAKYE. NO TWILIGHT TOO MIGHTY —  GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO

A look at the human being through figurative painting and multiple timeless portraits; that is what the British painter Lynette Yiadom-Boakye has presented in this exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The catalogue, designed by our studio and published in English, Spanish and Basque, includes a selection of more than 70 paintings and charcoal drawings made between 2020 and 2023, shown to the public for the first time, as well as a selection of the artist’s poetic work.

 

Curated by Lekha Hileman Waitoller, it will be on view until September 10th 2023

Cy Twombly Marrakech

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSCY TWOMBLY. MOROCCO 1952/1953 — MUSÉE YVES SAINT LAURENT MARRAKECH

The American painter Cy Twombly’s residence in Rome is well known, but this was not the only place that aroused his fascination: he also travelled to Morocco in the early 1950s. This profound experience marked him, and is reflected in the exhibition Cy Twombly, Morocco 1952/1953, at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech, for which we have created the exhibition graphics.

 

With the collaboration of the Fondation Jardin Majorelle and the Cy Twombly Foundation, its curator, Nicola Del Roscio, has arranged photographs, sketches and paintings to trace the journey that one of the most representative painters of the second half of the 20th century made on his travels through North Africa, including Tangiers, Casablanca, Marrakech, and the ruins of Tiznit and Volubilis.

 

The exhibition can be visited at the Musée YSL Marrakech from March 4th to July 2nd, 2023.

mejore libro de fotografia del año

BOOKSCARRIE MAE WEEMS — BEST PHOTOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR

One of the publishing projects published in 2022 never ceases to bring us joy. The catalog on the work of African-American artist Carrie Mae Weems. A Great Turn in the Possible, which complements the homonymous exhibition, has been selected by The New York Times as one of the Best Photography Books of the Year. This recognition has also been shared by TIME, which considers it one of the 20 Best Photobooks of 2022. Likewise, the British media The Guardian includes it in its list of the best photography books published in 2022.

 

The exhibition can be visited at the KBr de MAPFRE, Fotocolectania and MACBA until 15thJanuary 2023.

Sybilla exposición

EXHIBITION GRAPHICS / EXHIBITION DESIGNSYBILLA. THE INVISIBLE THREAD — SALA CANAL DE ISABEL II

Together with Frade Arquitectos, we have designed the exhibition design and graphics for the exhibition Sybilla. The Invisible Thread, the most extensive exhibition dedicated to the Spanish designer. Considered by many as the natural heir of Balenciaga, and coinciding with her return to the workshops, the Sala Canal de Isabel II offers a journey through her 40-year career in the world of fashion.

 

Structured on 5 floors and divided into sections, the exhibition includes 80 garments by the designer, and includes iconic images of her collections and fashion shows, catalogues, invitations, and press articles that help to understand and contextualise Sybilla‘s universe.

 

The exhibition can be visited from September 27th , 2022 to January 15th, 2023. In addition, several meetings with its curator, Laura Cerrato Mera, are scheduled.

Alice Neel

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSALICE NEEL. UN REGARD ENGAGÉ — CENTRE POMPIDOU PARIS

A new retrospective of the American artist Alice Neel has just opened at the Centre Pompidou, for which we have designed the exhibition graphics. A free and independent woman, she was a committed defender of social rights, and translated her values into her often stark portraits of people from different backgrounds, usually humble, disadvantaged and marginalised.

 

Removed from the art circuit for most of her career due to her tumultuous personal life, her work was finally recognised in the 1970s. Now, some 75 paintings and drawings are on display, divided into two parts conceived around the concepts of class struggle and gender.

 

Organized by the Centre Pompidou in collaboration with the Terra Foundation for American Art, Alice Neel. Un regard engagé opens to the public on October 5th and will be open to the public until January 16th 2023.

Damián Ortega

CATALOGUEDAMIÁN ORTEGA: EXPANDED VIEW — CENTRO BOTÍN SANTANDER

After the exhibition catalogue of Juan Muñoz’s drawings, we are pleased to announce a new collaboration with Centro Botín, for whom we have designed a new publication on the occasion of the exhibition Damián Ortega: Expanded View. The exhibition brings together for the first time nine suspended sculptural works by the artist, who challenges the idea of the artistic object, while questioning our perception and reading of reality.

 

Organized by Centro Botín and curated by Vicente Todolí, the exhibition opens to the public on October 8th and can be visited until February 26th 2023.

Carrie Mae Weems

CATALOGUECARRIE MAE WEEMS. A GREAT TURN IN THE POSSIBLE — BARCELONA

Autumn is coming and we are launching a new editorial project, the catalogue of the exhibition of the Afro-American artist Carrie Mae Weems. Since she first presented her photographic work to the public in 1983, her work has focused on reconstructing the image of the black community in the media, especially of women. Her work questions traditional ideas about relationships, family, or the connection between different generations, moving freely between various media such as photography, installation, text and video.

 

The exhibition, curated by Elvira Dyangani Ose, is organised by Fundación MAPFRE in collaboration with Fundació Foto Colectania and the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (WKV), and will be on view at the KBr MAPFRE, Fotocolectania and MACBA, from 5th October 2022 to 15th January 2023.

Yves Saint Laurent

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSYVES SAINT LAURENT AUX MUSÉES — PARIS

2022 marks the 60th anniversary of Yves Saint Laurent’s first haute couture show at the couturier’s legendary atelier at 5, Avenue Marceau. To commemorate this anniversary, six Parisian museums have come together to celebrate the life and work of an iconic creator in fashion and culture.

 

We are delighted to announce that we have created the Yves Saint Laurent aux Musées exhibition graphics, a joint event curated by Madison Cox, president of the Fondation Pierre Bergé – Yves Saint Laurent, Stephan Janson and Mouna Mekouar.

 

The YSL Museum will showcase drawings, models, original patterns, prototypes, and archives previously unseen by the public. The city’s major museums will showcase the designer’s fascination with art, establishing a dialogue between pieces from his collections and the influence they have had on the couturier’s imaginary.

 

The exhibitions will be on view from January 29th to September 18th 2022 at the Musée Yves Saint Laurent, Centre Pompidou, Musée du Louvre, Musée d’Orsay, Musée Picasso Paris y en el Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.

Liam Young

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSLIAM YOUNG. WORLDBUILDING — FUNDACIÓN TELEFÓNICA

Lacasta Design has designed the exhibition graphics for the exhibition of the Australian artist Liam Young at Espacio Fundación Telefónica. The film director and architect has developed his latest audiovisual projects exploring the boundaries between film, video art, animation and design.

 

The theme of Liam Young.Worldbuilding focuses on the urban experience in imaginary cities, using speculative fiction using data and statistical analysis, and his latest projections will be shown alongside models, photographs and costumes.

 

This exhibition is part of the programme of the Madrid Urban Digital Art Festival, MMMAD, and will be on view from 20 May to 20 November 2022.

Alex Katz

CATALOGUE / EXHIBITION GRAPHICSALEX KATZ —  THYSSEN MUSEUM

The Thyssen Museum presents one of the most important exhibitions of the year, the first retrospective in Spain of Alex Katz, for which we have produced the exhibition graphics and catalogue.

 

Katz, one of the forerunners of pop art in the 20th century, has actively participated in the exhibition, curated by Guillermo Solana, the museum’s Artistic Director. A total of 40 large-format canvases with the usual themes of his works: individual and group portraits, and his particular vision of nature, both dreamlike landscapes and colorful flowers.

 

The exhibition can be visited from 11th June to 11th September 2022.

Sébastien Bras

BOOKBRAS. LE GOUT DE L’AUBRAC — PHAIDON

The Bras family, originally from the Aubrac region in the French Massif Central, have spent their entire lives in the kitchen. The first was the now legendary chef Michel, and now it is his son Sébastien Bras who, in this book, reveals the secrets that have made his restaurant Le Suquet one of the best in the world.

 

Designed by Lacasta Design and published by Phaidon, this volume not only brings together 40 previously unpublished recipes, but also brings the reader closer to the history of the family and explores the gastronomic importance of Aubrac with the help of journalist Pierre Carrey, as well as 270 images including photographs and illustrations.

Sally Gabori

CATALOGUESALLY GABORI — FONDATION CARTIER POUR L'ART CONTEMPORAIN

Sally Gabori’s monumental work is being presented for the first time in a solo exhibition in Europe thanks to the Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain. The Aboriginal artist, considered one of Australia’s most important artists, began painting at the age of 80 and in just a few years, she became known for her vibrantly coloured paintings.

 

Lacasta Design has designed the exhibition catalogue, which includes 96 reproductions of her work, including 30 paintings in the exhibition. It covers Gabori’s entire life and artistic career, from his birth in 1924 in a small village on Bentinck Island to his forced exile on Mornington Island. His work explores his origins and his relationship with the landscape, and contains texts by Aboriginal cultural experts Nicholas Evans, Judith Ryan (Chief Curator at the University of Melbourne) and Bruce McLean.

 

Mirdidingkingathi Juwarnda Sally Gabori is on view from July 3rd to November 6th at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain in Paris.

Diseño de jardines

BOOKWILD. THE NATURALISTIC GARDEN — PHAIDON

This book, designed by our studio and published by Phaidon, is a compendium of a new trend in garden design: a wild look but with a careful choice of species and an eco-sustainable approach.

 

With more than 350 photographs by Claire Takacs, in its more than 300 pages Noel Kingsbury brings together a selection of 40 gardens around the world, designed by some of the best landscape designers in the world such as Sean Hogan, Piet Oudolf or Dan Pearson, among others.

Juan Muñoz dibujos

CATALOGUEJUAN MUÑOZ. DRAWINGS 1982 – 2000 — CENTRO BOTÍN SANTANDER

Twenty years after Juan Muñoz’s early death, the Centro Botín de Santander is holding the first retrospective dedicated to his drawings, both those that served as a preparatory basis for his sculptures and the drawings that constirute an artistic corpus per se.

 

Lacasta Design has designed the catalogue of the exhibition, in which more than 200 original works on loan from institutions and private collectors will be on display. The publication offers a different perspective of his work as a sculptor: his facet as a draughtsman, a medium in which he worked uninterruptedly for two decades.

 

The catalogue, co-published by Centro Botín and La Fábrica, includes texts by the curator, Dieter Schwarz, and by James Cahill, Manuela B. Mena Marqués, John Berger, James Lingwood, Declan McGonagle, Brenda McParland and Guy Tosatto.

 

Juan Muñoz (Madrid, 1953-2001) was one of the most important artists on the national and international scene. His sculptural work, between the classical treatment of figures and the avant-garde, was recognised by critics and the public.

 

The exhibition can be visited until October 16th 2022.

León Ferrari

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSLEÓN FERRARI. L’AIMABLE CRUAUTÉ — CENTRE POMPIDOU PARIS

We have designed the exhibition graphics for the first retrospective in France of the Argentine artist León Ferrari at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, curated by Andrea Wain.

 

The exhibition, which will be open until 29 August 2022, includes sculptures, assemblages, and pictorial and graphic works by the artist from 1950 onwards. Ferrari’s artistic corpus is a mixture of experimentation with different media and a discourse based on the political, the aesthetic and the anticlerical, translating thoughts into images, without neglecting the importance of language and the written word as a way of communicating both his ideas about art and his vision of the world.

 

León Ferrari (Buenos Aires, 1920-2013) was a self-taught artist, with no academic training, who became interested in sculpture while studying engineering. Although in the early years of his career he was interested in abstract art, in the seventies his work focused on the revision and re-examination of certain Western paradigms.

Shirley Jaffe

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSSHIRLEY JAFFE. AN AMERICAN WOMAN IN PARIS — CENTRE POMPIDOU PARIS

Lacasta Design adds a new exhibition graphic design to the projects carried out in 2022. On this occasion, in the retrospective dedicated to Shirley Jaffe at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

 

Shirley Jaffe (1923-2016) was an American painter who settled in France in the 1950s. After a brief period in which she was interested in abstract expressionism, she moved away from this movement in search of her own voice and pictorial gestures through geometric and chromatic compositions.

 

The exhibition can be visited until the end of August 2022.

Tatiana Trouvé

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSTATIANA TROUVÉ. LE GRAND ATLAS DE LA DÉSORIENTATION  — CENTRE POMPIDOU PARIS

Tatiana Trouvé’s exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris is one of the exhibition graphics projects we have been working on over the summer. The exhibition, made up of large-scale drawings and sculptures, taken to the three-dimensional to represent a kind of mental map of the artist’s dreams, generates a visual experience that seeks to disorientate the spectator.

 

Born in Italy, Tatiana Trouvé has lived and worked in Paris since 1995. She is part of the Gagosian artist portfolio and is one of the most prominent figures on the international art scene.

 

The exhibition can be visited from June 8th to August 22nd 2022.

Art in the Time of Ecological Disruption

BOOKART IN THE TIME OF ECOLOGICAL DISRUPTION  — IACCCA

How do the ecological challenges of our time influence artistic practices? This is the main theme addressed in IACCCA‘s first own publishing production, designed by Lacasta Design.

 

The publication features essays by curator Heidi Ballet and historian T. J. Demos and poems by Selina Nwulu, as well as numerous works illustrating various art projects related to crucial contemporary issues such as the deterioration of our ecosystem.

 

IACCCA, which stands for the International Association of Corporate Collections of Contemporary Art, is a non-profit organisation comprising more than 50 corporate collections of contemporary art from around the world. The book will be presented in Madrid on 19 September 2021 as part of the activities scheduled for the 3rd IACCCA International Symposium, to be held at CaixaForum Madrid.

Lacasta Design

BOOKANNIVERSARY — CANAL DE ISABEL II

Our studio has had the pleasure of designing the commemorative book for the CLXX anniversary of Canal de Isabel II. A careful edition with a foreword by Eduardo Martínez de Pisón and photographs by Ricardo Cases, Paco Gómez, David Jiménez and Adrian Tyler.

 

With water as the main theme of the publication, these four great photographers have captured their own vision of this natural element, its natural surroundings and the rich heritage and landscape of an organisation that has just celebrated its 165th anniversary.

Lacasta Design

CATALOGUEMASTERWORKS OF MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY — MOMA

The volume Masterworks of Modern Photography 1909-1940, published by MoMA / Silvana Editores and designed by Lacasta Design, shows a selection of works from the Thomas Walther Collection, which analyses the connection between the way of perceiving modernity of European photographers such as André Kertész, Claude Cahun, Karl Blossfeldt, László Moholy-Nagy, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson and North American photographers such as Paul Strand, Edward Weston, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, among others. The photography of the interwar period, characterised by creative exploration of the medium, laid the foundations for a new approach to documentary and abstract style through movements such as Surrealism, Constructivism and the Bauhaus.

 

Accompanying its publication, the montage of the exhibition held at MoMA in 2015 has been recovered and has recently been on view at MASI Lugano and CAMERA, Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, in Turin.

Morandi catalogo Mapfre

CATALOGUEMORANDI — FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE

We have added a new publication to our regular collaborations with Fundación MAPFRE with the design of the catalogue Morandi. Infinite Resonance, which accompanies the retrospective exhibition and takes us on a journey through the work of Giorgio Morandi, one of the most significant and unclassifiable artists in the history of 20th century art.

 

Morandi was one of the masters of figurative representation, such as still lifes, and a contemporary of the Futurists. Influenced in his early days by the Italian masters (Giotto, Uccello, Masaccio) and, later, by Cézanne and Cubism, his treatment of composition and objects and his use of color make his work  not only transcendental but metaphysical.

 

The publication also reflects the dialogue established between Morandi’s work and a selection of works by major figures in contemporary art such as the photographer Joel Meyerowitz, the sculptor Rachel Whiteread, the ceramist Edmund de Waal and the multidisciplinary artist Tacita Dean, among others.

 

Organised by Fundación MAPFRE and Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera, the exhibition can be visited from September 27th 2021 to January 9th, 2022 at the Sala Recoletos in Madrid.

Georgia O'Keeffe exposición París

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSGEORGIAO'KEEFFE — CENTRE POMPIDOU PARÍS

Following its run at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, the Centre Pompidou in Paris is presenting the first retrospective in France of Georgia O’Keeffe, one of the major figures of 20th-century North American art.

 

Lacasta Design has created the exhibition graphics, which features around a hundred paintings, drawings and photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, and which offers a complete vision of her artistic trajectory. Works that range from the works of the 1910s (with which she became a pioneer of abstraction), through her famous flowers or her views of New York (which made her one of the principal figures of modernity in her country), to the paintings of New Mexico, the result of her fascination with the landscape and the mixture of cultures of this remote territory. It can be visited until December 6th 2021.

Tapies Chillida Leku catálog

CATÁLOGOTÀPIES IN ZABALAGA — CHILLIDA LEKU

The catalogue accompanying the temporary exhibition Tàpies in Zabalaga has been co-published by the Chillida Leku museum and La Fábrica and designed by our studio. With this exhibition, the museum begins a new series of exhibitions in which it will invite other artists to enter into dialogue with this space, and the first artist to exhibit inside the Zabalaga farmhouse has been Antoni Tàpies, Eduardo Chillida’s friend and exceptional creator.

 

The exhibition, which will be open until January 10th 2022, will be made up of a selection of small and large-scale works, mainly sculptures, dating from the 1980’s to the 1990’s, some of which will be on view for the first time outside the Fundació Antoni Tàpies.

 

The authors of the catalogue are specialists in the work of the Catalan artist: the Art Historian Nùria Homs, who works at the Fundació Antoni Tàpies in Barcelona, and Lourdes Cirlot, a specialist in contemporary art and Professor at the University of Barcelona.

Lacasta Design

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSJAMES COLEMAN — CENTRE POMPIDOU PARIS

We are pleased to announce a new collaboration with the Musée Pompidou Paris for the realization of the exhibition graphics of the James Coleman exhibition.

 

The Irish artist, who at the beginning of his career felt identified with minimalism, has worked since the 1970s in installations and audiovisual media in which he questions reality. These projections are usually synchronized with slides, films, audio narrations and soundtracks, representing themes from popular culture, literature, painting, theater or cinema.

 

The temporary exhibition is part of the summer program and will be open until August 23rd, 2021.

Lacasta Design

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSJULIO GONZÁLEZ — CENTRE POMPIDOU MÁLAGA

The Center Pompidou Málaga opens an exhibition on the sculptor Julio González, one of the figures who was at the forefront of modern sculpture from the 1930s of the 20th century.

 

The museum has given us the opportunity to design the exhibition graphics of the exhibition, focused on the major stages of an artistic career centered on working with metal, especially iron, as the main material to draw its main themes in space: dance as a study of movement, or masks as a set of planes.

 

The Julio González exhibition, curated by Brigitte Leal, in collaboration with the Fundación la Caixa, can be visited until October 17th, 2021.

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AWARDSBILL BRANDT — PHOTOESPAÑA

The exhibition catalog on Bill Brandt has been selected as one of the best photography publications of the year by the PHotoEspaña festival.

 

PHotoEspaña, one of the most important photography festivals in Europe, presents its 24th edition in 2021, with 86 exhibitions. Among them, the first retrospective dedicated to this photographer, which can be seen until August 29th at Fundación MAPFRE, in Madrid.

 

The collective exhibition with the Best Photography Books can be seen at PHotoEspaña Gallery (c/ Alameda, 9, Madrid) until August 30th, 2021.

Lacasta Design

EXHIBITION GRAPHICSWOMEN IN ART — CENTRE POMPIDOU PARIS

Lacasta Design has designed the exhibition graphics for the exhibition Women in Art, which allows discovering unpublished artists for both specialists and the general public.

 

The exhibition proposes a journey through the history of abstract art created by women from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day. A multidisciplinary and global exhibition that includes works from Latin America, the Middle East and Asia.

 

Organized by the Center Pompidou Paris, opens to the public on May 5th, 2021 and can be visited until August 23rd, 2021.

Picasso Ibero

CATALOGUEPICASSO ÍBERO — FUNDACIÓN BOTÍN

Design of the catalog for the Picasso Íbero exhibition, the first exhibition to explore the influence of Iberian art on Pablo Picasso’s work through more than 200 pieces.

 

Co-edited by Fundación Botín and La Fábrica, it is an original confrontation that offers the possibility of reflecting on how the discovery of an autochthonous and “primitive” art contributed to the formation of the identity and artistic language of one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.

 

The exhibition is organized in collaboration with the Musée national Picasso-Paris and curated by Cécile Godefroy, with Roberto Ontañón Peredo as Associate Curator, and coordinated by Pierre Rouillard for the Iberian section.

 

Picasso Íbero can be visited from May 1st, 2021 to September 12th, 2021 at the Centro Botín (Santander, Spain).

IED MADRID

EDUCATIONMASTER OF EDITORIAL DESIGN AND PRODUCTION — IED

From October 2021 until July, we will be part of the group of professionals who participate in the Master of Editorial Design and Production at IED Madrid.

 

This master’s degree, directed by Tres Tipos Gráficos, raises the dialogue between paper and screen, and includes the study of the different publication formats, the role of photography and illustration, the principles of composition and typographic aesthetics, but also incorporates the research and prototyping processes typical of the digital world into print media design.

 

We will try to contribute our vision of the culture of the editorial project or the dynamics that govern its processes without forgetting the differences between the types of publications and their special characteristics.

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CATALOGUE / EXHIBITION GRAPHICSMATÍAS COSTA. SOLO — SALA CANAL ISABEL II

Venue Canal de Isabel II of the Community of Madrid and Centro José Guerrero from Granada present SOLO, an exhibition by Argentine photographer Matías Costa, which proposes a journey through his trajectory of three decades of work, including photojournalism, travel chronicles or autobiographical narration.

 

Lacasta Design has been comissioned  to design the space graphics and the catalog that complements the exhibition. The publication, edited by La Fábrica, includes texts by the historian and curator Carlos Martín, the journalist Leila Guerriero and the specialized photography critic Federica Chiocchetti.

 

Matías Costa (Buenos Aires, 1973) is a journalist, photographer and co-founder of the NOPHOTO collective. He has received distinctions such as the World Press Photo or PHotoEspaña Prize. He is a regular contributor to press media such as El País or The New York Times.

Joan Brossa

AWARDSJOAN BROSSA

Joan Brossa. Catalog Raisonné, which includes the visual work of an experimental type and not edited by the artist, has been awarded the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports. 1ST Prize Best published Art Book Awards 2019. 

 

The catalog includes a series of projects conceived in the form of books or sets with his experimental poems and collections of visual poetry. 

 

Thanks to all the members of the jury!

 

Lacasta Design

AWARDSUNIVERSES. DAVID JIMÉNEZ

We are happy to announce that one of our latest works, the book ‘Universes’ by David Jiménez, has been awarded as the Best Photography Book of the Year in National Category by PHotoEspaña, which has been published on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated to the photographer in Sala Canal de Isabel II de la Comunidad de Madrid.

 

The evolution of the work of photographer David Jiménez is demonstrated through the pages of this RM Editorial – Comunidad de Madrid and Navarra University publication, which includes some of the projects he has developed over more than 25 years of experience. The PHE jury has highlighted “the synchrony between the substance and the form of the work. Furthermore, it stands out how the author’s visual narrative is supported by a high print quality and choice of paper”.

 

The jury was integrated by the Deputy Director of the Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo, Tania Pardo; the Director of Communication and head of catalogs of the Fundación Juan March, Guillermo Nagore and the renowed photographer Alberto García-Alix.

Kandinsky

CATALOGUEKANDINSKY —  GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM BILBAO

A pioneer of abstraction and renowned theorist of aesthetics, Wasily Kandinsky is one of the most innovative artists of the early 20th century.

 

The sample catalog has been edited by La Fábrica and designed by the Lacasta Design.

 

The exhibition can be visited at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao until May 23rd, 2021.

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EXHIBITION GRAPHICSMATISSE. LIKE A NOVEL — CENTRE POMPIDOU PARIS

On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Henri Matisse, the Pompidou Centre in Paris pays tribute to him through the exhibition Matisse. Like a Novel which presents more than 230 works and 70 documents and archives.

 

Inspired by the title of Louis Aragon’s work, Henri Matisse, Roman (1971), this exhibition explores in each of the 9 sections Matisse’s relationship with literature. Laid out from its beginnings to the 1950s and its final years, this chronological survey allows us to contemplate a life lived for art.

 

This exhibition has been a new opportunity for our studio to develop the line of exhibition graphics in one of most renowed modern and contemporary art museums with the most international presence.

 

We recommend the guided tour led by its curator, Aurélie Verdier.

 

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EXHIBITION GRAPHICS MARTIN BARRÉ — CENTRE POMPIDOU PARIS

Considered one of the most important abstract painters of the second half of the 20th century, Martin Barré is the subject of a retrospective-event at the Pompidou Center in Paris.

 

Lacasta Design has been the studio chosen to make the exhibition graphics. Straight lines and a measured use of color have been the premises established to enhance the work of one of the masters of European abstraction.

 

If you couldn’t see it, we recommend this exclusive guided tour by Michel Gauthier, curator of the exhibition.