Lewis in Spain

• Lewis translation wins prize
  Yolanda Morató’s translation of Blasting and Bombardiering has won the AEDEAN translation prize. Read about it here.

NEW EXHIBITIONS

• Madrid Exhibition
  There is to be a major exhibition of Lewis’s paintings and drawings at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid initially scheduled for 2010. Manuel Fontán del Junco, the director of the Foundation is the main organiser, and Paul Edwards and Richard Humphreys – fresh from curating the successful National Portrait Gallery show – will be curating again.
  
  
• Vorticism exhibition in US, Italy and UK
  Early shows reconstructed
  Mark Antliff of Duke University, USA, is collaborating with Vivien Greene, Curator at the Guggenheim in New York, to recreate, as much as possible, the three major Vorticist exhibitions that occurred during World War One:
  • the Doré Gallery show of June 1915 in London;
  • the Penguin Club exhibition of January 1917 in New York City;
  • the exhibition of Alvin Langdon Coburn's "Vortographs" that took place in February 1917 at the Camera Club in London.

  The exhibition will open at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina in the autumn (fall) of 2010, and will then travel to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice in the Spring of 2011, and to Tate Britain in the Summer of 2011.
  It will be the first large-scale exhibition of Vorticist works held in the United States and in Italy.
  Mark Antliff has recently published, with Patricia Leighten, A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914 (Chicago, 2008). He is Professor of Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

• Current exhibitions
  Paris.
  At the Pompidou Centre is Le Futurisme à Paris: une avant-garde explosive, which includes Lewis’s The Crowd, together with work by Gaudier, C. R. W. Nevinson, and many others. This exhibition transfers to Tate Modern, showing from 12 June to 20 September 2009. 
  Madrid. ¡1914! exhibition
  One work by Lewis is showing in the Madrid exhibition entitled  ¡1914! LA VANGUARDIA Y LA GRAN GUERRA. This is at the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza – Fundación Caja Madrid, until 11 January 2009.
  Among artists associated with Lewis, there are five works by William Roberts, and work by David Bomberg.

NEW BOOKS

• In Spain, an excellent translation of Blasting and Bombardiering has been published by Impedimenta of Madrid. The translation is by Yolanda Morató. There is an accurate and informative introduction by Juan Bonilla.
  Estallidos y bombardeos.  Traducción del inglés de Yolanda Morató, introducción de Juan Bonilla.
  http://www.impedimenta.es/novedades.htm
  
  
• Future publications
  A facsimile of Blast will be published in the spring of 2009 by Gingko Press and Thames and Hudson, with an Introduction by Paul Edwards.
  A new edition of the 1928 version of Tarr, edited by Scott Klein, will be published by Oxford University Press in 2010.
  Oneworld Classics have taken over the Lewis titles previously published by John Calder. An edition of The Human Age trilogy, with new Introductions, is promised.
  In Brazil, Tessitura Editora will publish a Portuguese translation of Tarr, with more Lewis titles to follow if this is successful.
  Impedimenta will publish next Yolanda Morató’s Spanish translation of The Apes of God, as Los monos de Dios, and then Tarr.
  Penguin Books are to reprint their editions of Revenge for Love and The Wild Body,

November 2008