CONQUERING THE WORLD THROUGH IMAGES

Funchal

From 31 August to 17 September

One of the island’s main tourist attractions, the Wine Festival pays tribute to Madeira’s wines and highlights their unquestionable social and economic importance. It is held during the grape-picking season (end of August and early September) and aims to recreate Madeira’s traditional wine-making practices down the ages.

Until October

TEA Tenerife Arts Space presents Óscar Domínguez. La conquista del mundo por la imagen, an exhibition that brings together over 70 works by the Tenerife artist, who was one of the key figures in the surrealist adventure and vanguard movements of the 20th century. This new exhibition features a series of paintings from the 1930s, his best period, and includes a dozen unseen works from private international collections and loans from Spanish institutions. They include El drago de Canarias and Cueva de guanches and are exhibited alongside works from the TEA’s own collection. Admission is free and the exhibition can be visited until 29 October, from Tuesday to Sunday and on public holidays from 10:00 to 20:00 h.

La Comédie de Toulouse

14 September

Fabián Ordóñez departed his native Argentina at the age of nineteen. After travelling throughout Europe, he settled in France (Toulouse) to concentrate on singing. He played and sang everywhere: on the quayside of the Garonne, in the Borriquito Loco and various other iconic Toulouse night spots

Until October

Transgression of Desire explores the concept of ‘convulsive beauty’ developed by the Surrealist movement, which has influenced the representation of the female body to the present day. Using a series of connections and encounters, it maps a network of relationships between images, works, texts and documents in order to reappraise from a contemporary perspective the nature of the images that illustrate the concept. Curated by Pilar Soler Montes, the exhibition is free and can be visited until 29 October.

Until 15 October

Coinciding with the centenary of the death of Joaquín Sorolla, this exhibition brings to Donostia (the city where they were created) works from the Sorolla Museum, which are displayed alongside others from San Telmo’s own collection. Sorolla was a leading Spanish painter from the modernist period. He is renowned for the skilful capture of light and colour in his works, which led him to be known popularly as the painter of light. His style is impressionist and his works comprise mainly portraits, landscapes and costumbrista scenes.