Spanish artists Open Studio Weekend at Spain (NOW!)

   I have recently gone some activities for the 5th edition of Spain (NOW!) last November. I was very satisfied with the shows I saw, and also, to get to know some new Spanish speaking artists based in London in their Open Studio Weekend.

   So I decided to do a little research about these artist and share it with you. Following the same order as the programme of Spain (NOW!), I will start with Gala Knorr. This very prolific Basque born artist is starting to be very recognized in the present artistic panorama in London with her collage like photography and designs. In her works, and her collaborations with other artists, we can see a very new and refreshing re-elaboration of the cultural history of the 20th Century.

   Fran Ortega's energetic paintings will definitely reach you with his accumulative work full of symbology, iconography and explosions of paint which has led him to be chosen one of the Burning Bright,emerging artists from Saatchi Online Gallery this year. Congratulations from here!

   For our next stop we stay in the same building,  Mother Studios in Hackney Wick, housing also Adrian Navarro. Adrian, like Cristobal Columbus, thought the world was round!, and he evolves this concept in an uncountable plastic ways. While Adrian Navarro was showing his studio and his work, Pablo A. Padilla Jargstorf presented an audiovisual experience inspired by the creations of the painter. Quoting from Spanish (NOW!) web: "a never-ending immersive trip into hundreds of overlapped landscapes and soundcapes".

   A visit to Jorge Monedero to get to know his very stylish portrait photography of very well-known names like Galiano and Claudia Shiffer, other artists like Sarah Lucas or Tracy Amin, for magazines like The Times or Vanity Fair is really worth it.

   There was also video artists like Gemma Pardo with her videos set all in nature. The blue of the water, sky and clouds leaves you with a deep sensation of tranquility, isolation and emptiness.

  Finally, Maria Jose Arceo  touches your consciousness about the importance of recycling with her artistic creations and installations where she experiments with new visual patterns made out of rubbish found on the shores of the river Thames.

   There are still many more I have not mentioned. I might have an opportunity to do it another time. But what is true is that Spanish artists are opening their way in London cultural and enriching and getting influences from the our contemporary art panorama.

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Spanish Tutor in London Updates: Spanish speaking art exhibitions on in London. Nov...

Spanish Tutor in London Updates: Spanish speaking art exhibitions on in London. Nov...: Hola!    As some of you know, I am a culture and art lover. So I was thinking that this has to be also a very important section in this b...

Spanish speaking art exhibitions on in London. November 2013.

Hola!

   As some of you know, I am a culture and art lover. So I was thinking that this has to be also a very important section in this blog. I will be publishing here all the Spanish speaking art and culture events in London I come across.

I would also like to encourage you to let me know about the ones I am missing and get involved by making comments and reviews about them.

   This month I have spotted some painters exhibiting in London in the magazine Galleries very different in styles that can interest you. 

The first one is the Spanish Alfredo Roldan who is showing his new paintings from the 7 Nov-30 Nov at the Albemarle Gallery. This is very interesting specially if you like painters like Matisse or Picasso who are his main influence. Here is the book you can have a look at his paintings if you haven't got the chance to see his work in real life.

   I would also like to recommend the powerful exhibition of the Cuban artist Ana Mendieta at The Hayward Gallery on until 15 Dec. Mendiata has always like experimentation and provocation with the human body and this retrospective of her works is worth seeing.

  

This is all I have for now. Let me know if you would like to recommend any other exhibition or event.

Hasta pronto!

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How Hackney Helped Refugees from the Spanish Civil War

Hola!

Today I would like to recommend the reading of this lovely article called How Hackney Helped Refugees from the Spanish Civil War that came out this week in the Hackney Citizen newspaper to the ones passionate about Spanish history and its civil war. One beautiful example of unity during hard times.

Hasta pronto!

What we do...

Hola a todos!

I am Maria from Spanish Tutor in London. For my first post in this blog about Spanish language, I wanted to write a little bit about what we do in Spanish Tutor in London.

This is a Spanish language school based in London. We have a very central location very near Liverpool Street Station. We organise a wide range of group lessons in London and Spanish speaking countries, and also, one to one tuitions for all levels of Spanish including preparing for GCSE, A-Levels and DELE exams.

Group lessons take place during the week after working hours and we try our best to put you in the right level group for you. They are one or one hour and a half. We work of the four different skills: listening, reading, writing and OF COURSE, speaking! which is one of the most important and hard ones in my opinion. Also, if you are thinking in doing a Spanish immersion course in a Spanish speaking country, we can recommend you some that have been tried by some of our students before.

One to one lessons normally take place in a convenient place for your tutor and you. You set the time and date, and lessons are tailored according to your needs. Please, check in my web fees and groups open at the moment.

We also do drop in conversation sessions which are very successful at the moment. In order to attend you must have some knowledge of Spanish as, in order to have a conversation, you need to have a foundation! There are two types of sessions to choose from according to your level of Spanish. You can always ask if you are not sure about your level. We organise occasional free cultural events too.To join, please visit our Meetup Page.

If budget is a problem for you and you really want to learn Spanish, we offer the possibility of doing au-pair work experiences and language exchanges in Madrid and Cadiz.Visit my web for more information about these.

As you can see, there is no excuses now to step forwards and learn Spanish!

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Hasta luego!!