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Modern and present - Turn of the Century in the Macba Collection

This new MACBA exhibition establishes the thesis that the emergence of the modern aesthetic in a cultural context starts on the 1950's, and not in the first half of the twentieth century. From this time and until the 1980's, the practice of art and blossoming of new material forms should be considered essentially related with architecture and design. The MACBA Collection, which includes works that are owned by various public and private agencies Catalan, Spanish and European, is the backbone of the MACBA and works as a table of genetic code and testing for the Museum project. The concept...

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Festival Asia - Barcelona

The Festival Asia is back celebrating its 9th year with a wide range of high quality events that come from the intention and initiatives of the Asian communities that live in Catalunya, from September 16 to 25. Different cultures and ways of expression will be shown in the Festival and some productions will be on stage for the first time in Barcelona like the Kathakali, dramatic classical dance from India; the Shan Ren Band, a full rock band using simplicity of traditional sounds based on traditional Chinese and electronic instruments from the southern provinces of Yunnan and Guizhou in China;...

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BCN Design Week

The 5th edition of BCN Design Week organized by BCD Barcelona Design Centre will take place this year in Barcelona from October 18 to 22 under the slogan "Facing New Challenges through Design”. The BCN Design Week 2010 is an international business congress focused in the field of the design and aimed to companies and professionals in any productive or service sector that use knowledge and creativity as a driver of their business activity. This event is led to promote and debate on design and innovation at international level. Businesses from diverse productive or services sectors,...

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Gil J Wolman. I am immortal and alive

Gil Joseph Wolman (1929–1995) was a French artist born in Paris, pioneer in researching the intersection and alteration of visual and textual languages. His work encompassed painting, poetry and film-making. Wolman was an active agent provocateur from an early age. He formed part with Isidore Isou of the avant garde Letterist movement in the early 1950s. The Lettrism was an artistic and intellectual movement. It maintained that the expressive heights of all artistic languages (poetry, music, painting, etc) had already been reached, and that a stagnant historical moment had arrived where...

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Sonar 2010 Barcelona

The 17th International Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art Sonar 2010 will take place, for the first time simultaneously in the cities of Barcelona and A Coruña (Sonar Galicia) coinciding with the Xacobeo (Compostela’s Jubilee). The Sonar Festival confirmed dates are 17, 18 and 19 June, and presents a line-up that will be, to a large extent, shared by the two cities. In both cities the Sonar’s diverse artistic offer will split between the Sonar by Day activities (in Barcelona, the CCCB and MACBA venues) with a music line-up, and a multimedia and audiovisual...

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Barcelona Design Week 2009

CAixa Forum, LLotja, MACBA, October 2009 For the 4th year organized by BCD, Barcelona Design Centre, will take place the BCN Design Week. This design week is an international business focused congress framed in the field of design and aimed at those companies and professionals in any industry or productive services that use knowledge and creativity as a driver of its business activity. This 2009 BCN Design Week has a special relevancy to the celebration of the European Year of Creativity and Innovation.  The various events and activities included within the BCN Design Week offer the...

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Sonar Festival 2009 Barcelona

In June is time for the Sonar Festival with the Sónar by Day (CCCB, MACBA) from Thursday 18th to Saturday 20th June, and the Sónar by Night (Fira Gran Via M2) Friday 19th & Saturday 20th June 2009. Two of the main attractions already announced are Grace Jones and Orbital. Grace Jones, the Jamaican-born artist, muse of the 1980s, singer, model, actress and an icon of modernity far beyond mere music, returns, after almost twenty years of recording silence with an excellent new album, "Hurricane," produced by well renowned names including Sly & Robbie, Tricky and...

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Universal Archive

Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) - October 08 to January 09 The Condition of the Document and the Modern Photographic Utopia. The exhibition explores the role of photography as a notion of document in history, and it is organized into two main parts. The first part poses some major discussions on the photographic paper in the modern period, roughly from 1850 to 1980. The second area, Public Spaces Photographic focuses on the documents of the exhibition spaces of El Lissitzky between 1928 and 1930. The third area explores the notion of photography as a tool for social...

Art and Culture > Outdoor Sculptures

Jorge Oteiza - La Ola

Jorge Oteiza Enbil, born at Orio, Gipuzkoa, in the Basque Country, worked as painter, designer and writer, and became one of the main theorists on Basque modern art. He started his career at the end of the twenties, with primitive works. Between 1935 and 1947 he takes up a great trip abroad to South America. Upon his return to Spain, he becomes the talk at all innovation-trend exhibitions and in public projects (Basilica de Aranzazu, 1950-1969) evidently featuring international projection: in fact, he was one of the winners in the IV Biennale exhibition of Sao Paulo, 1957. During that time...

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Francesc Torres. Da capo

MACBA Museum Barcelona - June to September The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona dedicates this retrospective exhibition to the work of Francesc Torres. The tile of the exhibition “Da Capo” makes reference to a vision of the human condition related both to history and time, and which questions the nature of evolution. Formed in the Escola Massana of Barcelona; in 1967 goes to Paris, where he attends classes in l'Ecole DES Beaux Arts and exerts of assistant of Piotr Kowalski, Polish sculptor and architect, that will exert remarkable influence over Torres. Moves to the...

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Alice Creischer: Works and Collaborations

MACBA - Barcelona - February to May 2008 The exhibition at MACBA will be structured around two of Alice Creischer’s most important recent works: L’atelier de la peintrice. Allégorie réelle déterminant una phase de sept années de ma vie artistique ("The Painter's Studio: A Real Allegory Defining Seven Years of My Artistic Life"), produced in 2000. Secondly, her Apparat zum osmotischen Druckausgleich von Reichtum bei der Betrachtung von Armut (Apparatus for Osmotic Compensation of the Pressure of Wealth During the Contemplation of Poverty,...

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Joan Jonas -Transparencies in a Dark Room

MACBA - Barcelona - September 07 - January 08 Timelines: Transparencies in a Dark Room This is the first retrospective exhibition in Spain of the work of Joan Jonas (New York, 1936), one of the pioneering artists in performance art, experimental film and video installation. The exhibition consists essentially of four installations that are representative of her career, together with a series of films, single-channel videos, drawings and photographs, that between them present a reading of her work that draws a connection between her practice of performance art and the origins of video installation...