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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 BAM - Barcelona Acció Musical

Around September 24, day of City Patron Saint Virgin Mercé (Our Lady of Mercy), once again Barcelona will celebrate its Annual City Festival. One of the clasic events of these days is the BAM (Barcelona Acció Musical).  The BAM Barcelona 2010, a festival of independent music, showcases the best from the Catalan and Spanish music scene along with out coming international figures in more than 70 performances at a dozen different venues being all the concerts free. The BAM Music Festival brings together a variety of genres from different corners of the world, from folk to electronic,...

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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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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...

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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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Arquiset 08 - Week of Architecture

Barcelona October, 2008 The light and housing are the central themes of this second edition of the Week of Architecture in Barcelona. Arquiset 08 'aims to promote discussion among professionals and civil society on those aspects that affect architecture in the city and integrate various disciplines such as Landscaping, Urban Planning, Interior Design, Public Space and architectural culture in general.  Arquiset'08 has among other activities a symposium on respect to lighting; 10x10 - Workshops with students of primary schools, guided tours and exhibitions on the 10 districts of the city...

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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...

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Somalia: Surviving oblivion

Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona  - April/May 2007 There is a map on which communities that are not part of the processes that dominate world geopolitics are condemned to oblivion. These communities are overlooked by the international political agenda, and so are banished from the sphere of solutions and political responsibilities. In this awareness-raising project by MSF, the multimedia installation Somalia, based on photographs by Pep Bonet, is the starting point for a series of activities, culminating in the debate Geography of forgotten crises, organised by the CCCB. Words...

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THAT'S NOT ENTERTAINMENT! Film Answers Film

Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona. December 06 to March 07 Exhibition in the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona This exhibition presents the cinema of experimentation and social and artistic commitment: a form of cinema that is the product of rage or reflection, that does not seek to please the tastes or the opinions of a majority, that is motivated by the urgency of transmitting something important, something that will open our eyes, move us and expand our knowledge. The installations and works that are present in this exhibition, despite their invisibility...