Tuesday, March 31, 2009
El Prado comes to Tenerife
Well, maybe they're not bringing the Madrid museum's bricks and mortar to the island, but there's an itinerant exhibition consisting of "an important selection" of still-lifes (around 60 works from an impressive list of artists, among them Francisco de Goya), on loan from Spain's National Art Gallery (El Prado in Madrid), until May 31st, at the Espacio Cultural de CajaCanarias, Plaza del Patriotismo, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
View Larger MapThe exhibition is called El bodegón español en el Prado and you can find more more details (in Spanish) at El Prado's own website. Don't go looking for the opening times though, 'coz I can't find that kind of useful information anywhere (This Is Tenerife, after all.) You can probably assume the usual Spanish business hours, not to early start, with perhaps a siesta and late opening.
Tinerguia to the rescue: opening times are, Monday to Friday, 11:00 to 13:00 and 17:00 to 21:00. Saturdays, 11:00 to 14:00 and 17:00 to 20:00.
Tinerguia also mention "the extraordinary quality of the works."
And as typically longwinded as the press release is, it also doesn't appear to pick up on the fact that the exhibition was inaugurated yesterday, March 30th, which was Goya's 263rd birthday either.
Photo of the exterior facade of the Prado Museum in Madrid by ReservasdeCoches.com - Car Rental in Madrid.
Curious point for students of Spanish: still lifes are called naturalezas muertas (literally, dead natures), which is a bit of a glass half-empty view, isn't it? Think I prefer the English version this time, of capturing a living moment.
