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One of the most celebrated holidays of Madrid is held on May 15, the Feast Day of San Isidro who is the city's patron saint as well as the patron saint of farmers. The traditional festival and feast are held in an open-air area known as the Pradera del Santo.
On May 15, starting first thing in the morning, the La Pradera de San Isidro (the San Isidro Meadow) plays host to a thronging pilgrimage, which dates back to shortly after the death of the saint. At 12pm, the Royal Collegiate Church of San Isidro hosts the Grand Mass. After the Eucharist, the Archbishop of Madrid makes his way to the San Isidro Meadow, where he blesses the water from the spring.
In the afternoon, the image of San Isidro and his wife, Santa Maria de la Cabeza, are paraded through the streets, from Calle del Sacramento to the Plaza de la Villa, via Calle del Cordon. The peak moment for this pilgrimage was during the 19th century. In 1941, buildings started to spring up on the banks of the river Manzanares and the meadow started to shrink. But during the whole of the 19th century the celebration gathered together thousands of Madrileños and visitors every year, as depicted by key artists such as Goya.
Dalí. All of the poetic suggestions and all of the plastic possibilitie
Dates: April 27 - September 2, 2013
Place: Reina Sofía Museum. Sabatini Building, Floor 3
Organized by: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and Centre Pompidou, Paris, in collaboration with the Fundació Sala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres, and the Salvador Dalí Museum, Saint Petersburg (Florida)
Curators: General Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin (Centre Pompidou); Co-Curators: Montse Aguer (Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí, Figueres), Jean-Michel Bouhours (Centre Pompidou) and Thierry Dufrêne (Centre Pompidou)
Admission: the price and the means of access to the exhibition Dalí. All the poetic suggestions and all the plastic possibilities will be published shortly
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Through a selection of over two hundred works (paintings, sculptures, drawings...) organised into eleven sections that follow something of a chronological order, this exhibition encourages visitors to rethink the place occupied by Salvador Dalí in the history of 20th century art, suggesting that his importance as a figure and his legacy stretch beyond his role as the architect of surrealism. The exhibition - the subtitle of which comes from his article "San Sebastián" (1927) which constituted his first artistic manifesto - examines how this controversial and prolific creator, of unmatched imagination, was capable of generating perturbing art that speaks directly to spectators. An art that, reflecting the scientific discoveries of the times, explores and expands the boundaries of consciousness and of sensorial and cognitive experience.
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