INDOC. Documentation Centre about Art and Nature

Registration now open for ‘Landscape and History’ course

The CDAN recently opened the registration period for a specialised course entitled ‘Landscape and History’, which will run in Huesca from the 22nd to the 26th of June 2009. This will be the fourth of five courses focusing on the theme of landscape. This year's course will examine relationships between landscape and history. [+]

Art and Nature

Grizedale Forest Park

This sculpture park is located deep in the Grizedale Forest in Cumbria, a county in the north-west of England. More than 90 artists, including David Nash and Andy Goldsworthy, have created works for the park since it was set up in 1977. [+]

Find out about some of the books recently added to the INDOC collection. [+]

Brief news items
and calls

INDOC receives information that may be of interest to you on grants, aid, educational programmes, etc. related to art and landscape (available only in spanish). [+]

Publications

Los jardines : paisajistas, jardineros, poetas :
siglos XVIII-XX

In this volume Michel Baridon evokes the protagonists whose gaze shaped our natural heritage. The author brings together an extensive selection of texts, offering readers an insight into different ways of seeing and experiencing gardens, and enabling us to perceive their true nature more fully. [+]

CDAN calendar

All of the activities and services offered by the CDAN over the next few weeks. [+]

Guided tours
of the CDAN

Visits can be scheduled on weekends at three different times: Saturdays at 12 noon and 6pm, and Sundays at 12 noon.[+]

Receive information

If you wish to stay informed of CDAN activities, send an e-mail difusion@cdan.es

Exhibition of work by Herman de Vries at the Kröller-Muller Museum in the Netherlands

An exhibition of work by artist Herman de Vries will be held at the Kröller-Muller Museum in the Dutch village of Otterlo from 19 February to 7 June. The show is a retrospective of the Dutch artist’s work, which is closely tied to nature. Unity – Herman de Vries offers an insight into the wide range of techniques and methods employed by the artist over his long career. [+]

Photo provided by Comunication Department of Kröller-Muller Museum

Aleix Plademunt: Espectadores, Galerie Olivier Waltman. Photo provided by Press Department of ArtParis.

ArtParis modern and contemporary art fair gets underway

From March 19 to 23, ArtParis will bring together over a hundred galleries in what for lovers of modern and contemporary art has been a not-to-be-missed event for the last 10 years. The art fair encompasses a wide range of media: painting, sculpture, design, photography, video and installations. [+]

Architecture, Music and Ecology Meetings

Over the course of 2009 a number of activities will be held in Paris and the Swiss municipality of Isérables with the aim of relating the creation of music to nature. The Architecture, Music and Ecology meeting, organised by the AME Association (Architecture Musique Écologie), will take place at the end of August. In addition to this event, a series of other meetings, workshops and prize-related activities are scheduled for the spring and summer.  [+]

Activities for special needs groups at the CDAN

The CDAN, the Beulas Foundation’s Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, offers guided tours and educational workshops tailored to the needs of every group, with special emphasis on the groups that have traditionally run into the most difficulties when trying to access to culture and art. [+]