Velazquez in Barcelona

Velázquez talks with his contemporaries of the Golden Age at CaixaForum

Velazquez Caixa Forum-2018

The CaixaForum opens the first great exhibition on Velázquez on Friday, which can be seen in Barcelona. The baroque collection of the Museo del Prado in Madrid nourishes the exhibition, which proposes a dialogue between seven masterpieces by the Sevillan painter and fifty canvases by other great artists of his time, among which Rubens, Ribera, El Greco, Zurbarán, Giordano or Van Dyck. The works of Velázquez offer a broad vision of the stylistic and thematic palette of the painter and propose a game of comparisons and correlations with some of the Spanish and international painters with whom they were related or whose production was up to date. The exhibition, which coexists with the CaixaForum with another large exhibition dedicated to Toulouse Lautrec, can be visited until March 3, 2019.

Titià, El Greco, Ribera, Antonio Moro, Rubens, Murillo, Giordano, Brueghel, Guido Reni, Van Dyck, Zurbarán, Claudio de Lorena and Stanzione are the constellation of artists whose work accompanies seven great paintings by Velázquez (Seville, 1599 – Madrid, 1660) at the exhibition ‘Velázquez and the Golden Age’ at CaixaForum. The seven masterpieces of the Sevillan painter are ‘Felipe IV’, ‘Juan Martínez Montañés’,’ Isop ‘,’ Adoration of the Three Kings’, ‘Bufó con libros’,’ Prince Baltasar Carlos on horseback ‘and’ Mart’.Les Pieces chosen by commissioner Javier Portús Pérez (head of preservation of Spanish painting of the Prado Museum) seek to give “a description as wide as possible of the author,” according to ACN. “The intention is that with these seven works we understand who was Velázquez, the eagerness of originality, the narrative singularity and the extraordinary technical virtues that make it one of the peaks of painting,” says the curator. “He was one of the most versatile Spanish artists and he cultivated a variety of topics, which he wanted to reflect on the exhibition.” The representation of knowledge, religion, reflection on art, the Court, mythology and landscape are the thematic areas proposed by the exhibition to show this thematic fan of Velázquez. For each subject, a canvas by Velázquez. And around it, works by other Spanish and international artists that allow us to compare their work with what other Spanish and European painters of the Golden Age have done, as well as the European, “which place Velázquez to the visitor in another place accurate “, says Portús. “From a very young age, Velázquez sought singularity with a desire to distinguish himself, from his first works in Seville: still lifes that do not resemble anything known until then.” Later on, he would go to work at the service of the Royal Court, “a competitive medium and where to become singular”, and from where he had access to production that was made at European level. The courts of the various European states did this function of artistic promotion and contributed to the observation, comparison and influence between the various creators of the moment. In this sense, the exhibition’s curator admits that while we are accustomed to writing the history of painting in terms of national schools (the “Golden Age” Spanish), “reality was not always so compartmentalized, because painting is a language that knows no borders “. “The game of stimuli and influences was extraordinarily varied, and one of the things that this exhibition shows is to what extent at that time painting was an international language that knew no borders,” Portús concludes. ‘Velázquez y el Siglo de Oro’ is the third exhibition organized jointly between CaixaForum and the Prado Museum, after ‘Goya. Lights and Shadows ‘, and’ The captivating beauty. Treasures of the Prado Museum ‘. In this case, the new exhibition in Barcelona adds to the acts of celebration of the bicentennial of the Madrid art gallery.

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Andy Warhol exhibition in Barcelona

The Social Work “la Caixa” shows 350 works that traverse the career of the greatest representative of pop art

ANDY WARHOL at CaixaForum

Hypochondriac, visionary, insecure, multifaceted, immensely creative and perhaps the greatest artistic agitator of the twentieth century. Andy Warhol was a fascinating character who embodied in his work multitude of experiences of his more than extravagant life. And since 14 September, he is the protagonist in CaixaForum Barcelona, ​​which dedicates the largest retrospective made in Spain about his work in an exhibition curated by the artistic director of the Picasso Museum in Malaga, José Lebrero.

Andy Warhol. The mechanical art will satisfy the experts and the general public, because precisely at the heart of the work of the father of pop art is the ‘democratize’ art and reach the masses of the public. Through December 31, all the creative stages of the artist can be traced through 350 works, intensely influenced by his experiences, including the most iconic of the artist: from the famous Campbell’s soup to the portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor and Mao.

Daily objects converted into art

The exhibition focuses on the evolution and transformations that Warhol’s work experienced throughout his frantic artistic career. After his beginnings as a designer, in 1961 he finally broke the frontier between illustrated art and publicity to create his first group of paintings specifically designed for the art world. Since then, dynamiting barriers between different artistic fields, as well as between popular culture and art, became a constant in his work.

Appliances for sale, advertisements for beauty treatments published in newspapers and magazines, consumer products; like a Midas king who united art and consumerism, Warhol transformed a myriad of everyday objects in the North America of his youth into works of art. In spite of the breaker of the proposal, they were surprisingly well received in his time.

Among the works that can be seen include the most iconic of the artist, from the famous soup Campbell’s to the portraits of Marilyn Monroe
In order to highlight the reductive, repetitive and schematic nature of his artistic trajectory, works and documentation have been selected that reflect his journey through three stages: as a young but very successful New York graphic designer in the 1950s to the formal operations of reverted images of the 1980s , already become world icon of pop art.

Between enigma and exposure to the public

His self-representation is a further part of the artistic repertoire of the artist, born as Andrew Warhola (Warhol was a printing mistake he liked) in 1928 in a humble family of Slovak immigrants. And this, because it always made of its public image an elaborate construction, enigmatic and at the same time exposed to the public. Throughout the exhibition it is easy to understand how Warhol created a character of himself, able to unite the figures of the shaman, the entrepreneur, the genius and the cultural editor.

In this sense, many of the works that can be seen in CaixaForum are strongly influenced by his work. Before and After is an example of this, a reflection on the fixation by the physicist. And it is that the childhood of Warhol was marked the ‘dance of San Vito’, a disease that caused changes in the pigmentation of his skin or that created a great insecurity. Warhol dragged him through his life and shaped this suffering in many of his works.

Another of Warhol’s most iconic works are undoubtedly the Campbell soup cans, which his mother, whom he was very attached to, habitually served her to eat. In 1952, Julia Warhola learned that her son lived with great sloppiness and fed himself with knick-knacks and went to his aid with him in what was to be a brief visit. He stayed 20 years. When he died, Warhol refused to process the news, did not attend the funeral and always denied that he had died.

Warhol also had a very particular relationship with religion and death. The universal symbol of memento mori (remember that you will die) appears frequently in his work, as is the case of Skulls, which can be admired in the exhibition.

The Dalí plant

In the 70’s, Warhol frantically launched a celebrity portrayal: made more than a thousand works of characters such as Mick Jagger, Jimmy Carter or Pele. He also wanted to immortalize celebrities before the camera. Among the outstanding pieces that can be seen in the exhibition are his Screen Tests, very short silent films of people who interested him, three or four minutes in length.
Salvador Dalí did for him two camera tests. The first, dubbed ‘Upside Down Dalí’ was a typically surreal representation in which Dalí looked at the target with a frown and authoritarian air. In the second, Dalí simply got up in the middle of the shoot and left to not return, planting Warhol.

Declared clinically dead … and resurrected

Despite being the king of consumer culture – his is the phrase “Buy is much more American than think, and I am the height of American,” the irony wanted his latest works were dedicated to two of the highest representatives of the Communism: Mao and Lenin.
He had already raffled to death 20 years earlier, when Valeria Solanas, a derelict artist, shot him three times at the entrance of his studio. At that time he was declared clinically dead, but a doctor opened his chest and gave a heart massage directly into the heart. He survived and refused to testify against the aggressor. His actual death occurred almost 20 years later, in 1987, as a result of an arrhythmia.

Once deceased, Warhol had accumulated so many items that Sotheby’s needed nine days to auction them. But, above all, it left an essential artistic legacy for anyone interested in the history of 20th century art. Until the end of the year, the appointment with the pop-art father is in CaixaForum.

The ‘Warhol Night’
The Warhol spirit will also invade the city on the evening of Friday, October 20th. Some of the most influential creators of Barcelona will show their creations live inspired by the figure and work of the American. Music, video art, visual arts or photography will be a good part of the artistic disciplines to pay homage to the myth that made the party a most placid way of understanding art.

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 Unique occasion in Barcelona, until February 5, to contemplate 63 masterpieces of the painting, from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, exposed with an innovative criterion that makes them even more impressive.

CaixaForum Barcelona

There are two months left to enjoy at CaixaForum Barcelona the Un Thyssen unseen exhibition. A new collaboration of the “la Caixa” Obra Social and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, which has made it possible to travel to Barcelona the largest selection of works that have never left their rooms.

Eight reasons not to miss it

1. By unrepeatable, since it is 63 fundamental works of pictorial art that will never return together to Barcelona. And because of these works, 42 have never been exposed in the city or have not been seen in the last twenty-five years. And because it is the first time that the Madrid art gallery authorizes such a large loan of his best works.

2. Because this “little Thyssen” is different. The works are presented in an unprecedented order that allows another perspective. Fra Angelico lives with El Greco and Marc Chagall; Hans Memling with Titian and Lucian Freud; Jan Brueghel with Gustave Courbet and Emil Nolde; And Canaletto with Camille Pissarro and Wassily Kandinsky.

3. Because it is not an anthology of the exposed painters, but a “new reading” of a fundamental part of the Thyssen collection based on five genres: “religious painting, portraiture, still life, landscape and urban landscape”. Chronological order and schools are broken, schemas are broken and authors are mixed, works are sought to dialogue with each other.

The curator of the exhibition and director of the Thyssen Museum, Guillermo Solana explains it this way: “It is a criterion that offers the advantage of being transversal and that allows to compare masterpieces that has never been seen in this way.” This “dialogue” allows, for example, exceptional comparisons. “The Annunciation” of Veronés exposed to the side “The Annunciation” of El Greco. The containment of the first along with the expressive overflow of the second.

4. Because it can be enjoyed with ironic coincidences. The portrait painted by Adriaen Thomasz Key of “William I, prince of Orange”, has by neighbor the “Portrait of a young lady with rosary”, work of Rubens. Well, William’s wife was found in flagrant adultery with Rubens’s father!

5. Because all the works of the show are of great figures, of artists of maximum level. Among them, four of the most outstanding pieces of Thyssen: “Harlequin with Mirror”, by Picasso; “Hotel Room” by Hopper; “Clouds of Summer” by Nolde and “The brook Brème”, by Gustave Courbet that, according to Commissioner Solana is: “The best painting of the nineteenth century in the museum.”

6. Because pictures, like books, are an inexhaustible source of experiences. As many times as you look, so many discoveries of new facets, impressions, feelings.

7. Because CaixaForum Barcelona offers its visitors the possibility of commented visits to the temporary exhibitions and the modernist building with the accompaniment and guide of an educator of the center.

8. And because, in addition to family visits and coinciding with the Christmas holidays, there are family shows, such as “For Christmas, Tales of the World”, “Concerto a tempo d’umore” and “The Trojan War”. A cultural visit in a day for the whole family.

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Ming Dynasty in Barcelona

The fascinating Ming Dynasty in the CaixaForum Barcelona

MING Dynasty Barcelona

A total of 126 pieces of first order, which reflect how society, culture and art of the fascinating Ming Dynasty, which dominated China between 1368 and 1644 was exhibited for the first time in Spain from tuesday, in the exhibition which opens at CaixaForum in Barcelona.

In partnership with the Nanjing Museum, the first great National Museum of China, the British company Nomad Exhibitions has organized this exhibition, which previously has been seen in Rotterdam and Edinburgh, and as he pointed the director of Nomad Exhibitions, Tim Pethick, goes far beyond the iconic Ming vases.

The audience that comes close to the esplanade of Montjuïc discover, nothing more start the exhibition route, which “Da Ming” means “great light” and that the dynasty led a total of sixteen emperors, who helped change their country forever, both demographically he went from a population of 65 million people to another 175- and economically, since the exchange was abandoned and opted for the money.

As emphasized this morning the Deputy General Director of the Foundation “la Caixa“, Elisa Duran, it is a “remarkable for the quality of the works on display and the exhibition discourse and collections shows that are given to know, coming out first of Nanking, the so-called southern capital of eight million people, and where the dynasty was founded. ”

Ming. The golden rule emphasizes both a censer ornaments enamelled copper, Jingtai Reign (between 1449-1457), as it focuses on ritual objects, integral part of court life, and displays the 13.5 meters from a roll – something that does not happen for space at the Museum of Nankíng- on the lives of women of senior officials, who in his spare time even played a kind of football.

The exhibition is divided into four areas, the first of them devoted to what happened in the palaces and behind the walls, where you can see the luxury of the objects of life in the court or the invention of new procedures for porcelain production.

In the section called “ideal society”, central in the exhibition, describes how the ideal society of the Ming Dynasty was based and organized in a hierarchy of four classes: officials, men with a formal education, farmers and artisans and merchants. Copies of a civil service entrance exams to help explain the difficulty involved get a charge, while various objects highlight the importance of the arts of calligraphy, poetry and painting.

The lives of women, on the other hand, is governed by the three obediences: first must obey the father, then her husband and, finally, the son, considering that they should be the ones that had to sustain morale in a changing society. In the field ‘Good Life’ are the changes in the “ideal society” and how the Ming adapted to the new reality, product manufacturing and trade. Art, culture, the most beautiful, became consumer goods, as were accumulating immense private wealth.

The exhibition serves to highlight the so-called scholars and artists or scholars, especially the four masters of Wu School Shen Zhou, Wen Zhengming, Tang Yin and Qiu Ying. In China they have a very important role and their works have the same acceptance in the West may have artists like Claude Monet or Manet Edouard. In this part of the exhibition, paintings are displayed and can check the level of complexity of the lawyers practicing artists in the “three perfections”: poetry, calligraphy and painting. ”

The last of the areas reflects China’s relationship with the other continents, and a drawn hand-printed map made by the Italian priest Matteo Ricci, who joined in Macao in 1582, and that evidence, the Ming empire version is displayed in the center of China’s growing connection with the world.

Indeed, the deputy director of the Nanjing Museum, Qizhi Wang, has been this excited Tuesday because in Spain can meet all these works and has advocated for trade with his country will continue and that there “can also see western parts” .

The exhibition will be at CaixaForum until next October 2, also it calls at the cultural centers of this institution in Palma de Mallorca and Zaragoza.

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Night of Museums in Barcelona

More than 80 cultural centers open their doors this Saturday from 7:00pm to 1:00am

Night of Museums in Barcelona

A May 2008 started the first edition of the Night of Museums in Catalonia. Now, eight years later, the event has become a must for many Catalans. Especially in Barcelona area, where a total of 83 museums will open their doors to celebrate the artistic night of the year. The initiative includes over 150 different activities, such as historical re-enactments, lectures, guided tours, concerts and workshops, among others.

Saturday May 21 open days will be held in different centers from 1900 hours until dawn. The novelty of this edition is binding to the network of participating spaces of Mies van der Rohe, the Fundació Ramon Pla Armengol, Palau Güell Foundation and a New Museum of Badalona: the Conducte d’Aigües. In addition, the Botanical Garden will schedule a night guided tour of a dozen volunteers.

Arts Santa Monica is one of the essential to visit. In addition to the exhibits ‘Nous Relats Fotogràfics’, ‘Permit yourself …’ and ‘Roger Bernat / Cicle Zande Xarxa’, the cultural center will offer guided tours and various musical activities from 20.00 to 23.00 hours, one of the hand students of the music department Antiga de l’ESMUC.

This Saturday night entry to museums in Barcelona is free
The CaixaForum hosts the exhibition “Impressionists and modern. Masterpieces from the Phillips Collection ‘, which forms one of the most important collections of modern art and avant-garde US Exhibits works by renowned artists such as Pollock, Kandinsky, Van Gogh, Degas and Picasso, among others. The appointment coincides with the second edition of Comisart, in this case dubbed ‘iconoclasts gestures, imatges heterodox’, which offers young professionals the opportunity to make a curatorial from funds Contemporary Art Collection “la Caixa” , the MACBA and the work of young artists. They also screened shorts and animation for children and youth will be a jazz concert with Threejay Eva Fernández.

The Centre for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona (CCCB) presents the work of over 120 artists and African artists through the exhibition ‘Making Africa. A continent of contemporary design ‘and hold a Poetry Slam, a platform for the dissemination of oral literature which gives the possibility to anyone who writes poetry go on stage.
Meanwhile, CosmoCaixa makes a journey on the origin and evolution of human beings with ‘The bressol of Humanitat’ and seeks to raise awareness of the nature with ‘Life salvatge. Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2015 ‘. The activities range from CosmoCaixa will host a workshop for astronomical observation and a show that mixes music and science to 3D planetarium sessions.

The CCM Born Barcelona recovers the eighteenth century with thousands of objects that the citizens of that time used in their daily lives. Also, every twenty minutes will project a set of kaleidoscopic images on the dome of the building and offer guided tours through the center.

The Night of the Museums bring the work of Joan Miró from the Foundation of the Catalan artist not only from his work, but also through ‘Murals’, a documentary by Pilar Pérez Solano Murals reminiscent of the exhibition of the same name that was presented at the Foundation February 19 to June 6, 2010.

The Botanical Garden is another essential of this edition. The museum suggests a self guided tour in which, with the help of a flashlight, visitors can discover the characteristics and curiosities of the environment. The music will also be present in the hands of the Free Time Band, which will perform at 21.00 and 23.00 hours.

The cultural centers will be open from 19.00 until early morning
The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona hosts a total of four exhibitions, ‘Andrea Fraser. L’1%, c’est moi ‘,’ Desitjos i necessitats. Noves incorporacions to cabbage • lecció MACBA ‘,’ Punk. Els seus  Rastres en l’art contemporani ‘and’ José Antonio Hernández-Díez. No tinc por de cap mal ‘. Among the planned activities include a workshop for families with children between 6 and 12 years and a creative workshop for young people aged 14 to 18 years. At 20 i 22 hours dance come to the forefront with the show ‘REM’, a directed and performed by Manuel Rodriguez and organized in collaboration with Graner activity.

Egyptology lovers can take the opportunity to make a visit to the Egyptian Museum, whose permanent collection houses over 1,200 pieces. In addition also you can visit the temporary exhibitions’ Tutankhamen. Història d’un descobriment ‘and’ Osiris, déu d’Egipte ‘. It will also open the Design Museum of Barcelona, which hosts five samples: ‘mon the museu. Disseny de producte, cultural heritage ‘,’ extraordinàries! Col·leccions d’arts i decoratives arts d’author (segles III-XX) ‘,’ The cos VESTIT. I trendy silhouettes (1550-2015) ‘,’ The gràfic disseny: d’ofici to PROFESSIO (1940-1980) ‘and’ Tangibles ‘.
This Saturday the National d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) Museum will also open its doors to the public to showcase their Romanesque murals, modernism of Gaudí and 20 masterpieces from the collection of Antonio Gallardo Ballart and dating from the twelfth to the sixteenth century . Even cartoons have their place in this edition, in which the joint work of the authors of the graphic novel ‘Las Meninas’ (National Comic Award 2015) will be discussed.

Pablo Picasso and his museum are another essential for the appointment. The exhibition reveals the link between the artist and Barcelona, forged during his adolescence and youth. The museum also hosts an important representation of works of 1917 and the series of ‘Las Meninas’ (1957), as well as a comprehensive collection of engravings.

Barcelona opens its workshops
The Catalan capital not only open its museums to all audiences, but also held the XXIII edition of “Tallers oberts Barcelona,” a project in which the collective of artists from different districts of the metropolis invite citizens to come in their studies and art workshops. The initiative aims to bring art, crafts and the work of creators to the public of Barcelona

Workshops Poble Sec districts, Ciutat Vella, Gràcia and Sarrià will open their doors over the last two weekends of May. Visitors will have the opportunity to asistiral creative process in action and discover the perpetrators behind each artistic piece. The open days will be held between 20 and 22 May (Ciutat Vella and Poble Sec) and between 27 and 29 May (Gràcia and Sarrià).

Barcelona City Council has created a virtual map that places shops throughout Catalonia, to give them the option to make themselves known and to contribute to the creation of a network of artisans.

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Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week

21 signatures on the catwalk and 260 in the ‘fair trade’ turn Barcelona into the capital of bridal fashion

Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week

The 2016 edition of the Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week begins with parades of 21 national and international firms will take place from 26 to 29 April in hall 8 of the Montjuïc of Fira de Barcelona.

It will continue between 29 April and 1 May, the professional trade fair, with the proposals of more than 260 brands, 58% from 17 countries, especially the UK, US, Netherlands and France will present collections bridal fashion feminine and masculine, ceremony dresses and complements the 2017 season.

Rosa Clará open the catwalk parades continue to host a total of 21 firms that presented not only wedding dresses, but of celebration and ceremony for four days. Among the designers who show only wedding dresses are Pronovias, which will be responsible for closing the parades this year; Rosa Clara; Jesus Peiro; Cristina Tamborero; YolanCris; Inmaculada García; Marylise & Rembo Styling; Israeli Galia Lahav; American Justin Alexander; French Cymbeline and Ramon Sanjurjo, parading for the first time in the lounge with its menswear creations.

Zapardiez Isabel, Isabel Avendaño and the Canary firm M & M show the collections of dresses and party outfits, perfect for wedding guests and for any occasion that requires a particularly elegant look. So will the Indian-American designer Naeem Khan, who will present a fashion show with their latest collections of bridal fashion and ceremony as part of the event “Barcelona Bridal Night”, which will gather in hall 8 of the Montjuïc entrepreneurs and specialized media.

For its part, Isabel Sanchis, Ana Torres, Matilde Cano, Carla Ruiz and Sonia Peña presented their creations on the catwalk prom dresses. Estermaria Laruccia, director of the Barcelona Bridal Fashion Week, said: “It is a pleasure for us to host firms as relevant in the world of bridal fashion, to show wedding dresses and party sometimes are real works of art, fruit of the artisanal and deep technical knowledge of great designers’ wisdom.

Great shopping in the ‘fair trade’

The lounge renews its European leadership and present the latest developments of 260 exhibiting brands, representing a 13% increase over last year. International participation has also increased: in this edition foreign brands account for 58% of the total, about 8 points higher than in 2015 and come from 17 countries.

These firms, along with the great Spanish brands will present their collections in the bridal salon fashion, accessories and gowns for a total of more than 20,000 pieces. Faced with this great offer, in addition to the thousands of expected visitors, it is expected to attend the event about 400 foreign buyers contacted directly by BBFW that through its “Special Guest Program” attracts international buyers with greater purchasing power for visiting the lounge.

According to forecasts, this year the number of these key buyers regarding last edition was folded and placed special emphasis on the buyers from USA, Germany, UK, France and Italy with the aim of consolidating the US market and European.

The president of the salon, Marta Raich, states that “the week of bridal fashion in Barcelona is a platform for global resonance and a unique opportunity for both domestic producers and international showcase their creations. It is also an excellent tool for promoting the values that form the DNA of the bridal fashion “made in Spain”: quality, design, craftsmanship, passion for work and fashion. ”

Wedding Barcelona Summit, new sectoral debate forum

The fair will also include different events taking place in the city related to the world of bridal fashion. One of them is the ‘Barcelona Bridal Summit’, a professional conference organized by the publishing Wedding Media International and BBFW lounge gather at the Caixaforum on April 25 entrepreneurs and professionals who will focus on the analysis of the main challenges and changes in the business of bridal fashion in Spain and internationally.

It will open the papers José Luis Nueno, an expert in the fashion industry, a professor at IESE and a PhD from Harvard University, who will present the study results “Millennial Brides: born in the 80’s, married today” driven by the lounge.

The study will present the latest economic data registered in Spain and worldwide sector and a forecast of how sales evolve over the coming years.

It also includes an analysis of trends in vogue among potential of bridal fashion industry boyfriends millennials, those born between 1980 and 2000 and this current clients and. also participate Luis Lara, senior advisor at KPMG, which drives the fashion division; Manuel Rodenas sales manager, marketing and international expansion of Raimon Bundó; Marta Raich BBFW president and director of Novia d’Art; Pepe Garcia and Lucia del Portillo CuldeSac and event organizer Toni Segui, among others.

The opening of this first edition of the Barcelona Summit will Wedding by Joan Aregio, Secretary of Business and Competitiveness of the Generalitat de Catalunya, accompanied by Rosa Oliva, director of WMI, and Estermaria Laruccia, director of BBFW.

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CaixaForum Barcelona ‘iconoclastic gestures’

The exhibition includes works that propose a reflection on the sacred and the demystification and its limits

CaixaForum Barcelona ‘iconoclastic gestures’

Because certain images are attacked? Why all revolutions want to destroy the icons of their predecessors? How can you represent what is worshiped? And denigrate what is rejected?

They are current issues, judging by controversy kicked up by the Islamic State attacks against religious heritage or the cartoonish treatment of Muhammad. And on this subject is the exhibition ‘iconoclastic gestures. heterodox images’ presented from Friday in the CaixaForum, Barcelona (will remain open until June 5) in the second of three exhibitions that make up the second edition of Comisart. Noves mirades on col·lecció la Caixa.

The curator of this exhibition, Carlos Martin (Granada, 1979), has not sought to analyze the different forms and historical episodes of iconoclasm, but present some aspects of the debate from a selection of twenty works by contemporary artists from the collections of the art museum and the Caixa. The exhibition includes works opting for the destruction or removal, by ironic parody and citation, but others simply propose a reflection on the sacred and the demystification and limits.

The exhibition opens with an image of a wood carving of a saint seventeenth century martyr who destroyed his face and hands, symbol of aggression. Follow a photograph where a vacuum of one of the Bamiyan Buddhas niche, after its destruction in 2001. An empty icon that becomes the absence of these stone colossi seen. And this empty frame is also represented by zinc empty niches, built in wax, which Valeska Soares exposes in different parts of the exhibition route. Wax, a material that is associated with the churches, and how tabernacle are proof of this absence. But the author has added a sweet smell, honey, that as if it were a ritual tells us that image. it is not but it has been a certain odor. the film Removals, Pere Portabella, who filmed the process of emptying the house of Federico Garcia Lorca at the Huerta de San Vicente, to show the other side of the fetishistic effect is also included empty house, without the piano, without the furniture, without the portrait of the poet, who has been perfectly packed as if they give him the funeral he never had. Javier Peñafiel another film where it is seen as a floral arrangement is destroyed by gunshots and as later, rewind, returns to its original state is also planned.

Artist Pedro G. Romero slides on photographs of temples desecrated, destroyed by anti sacramentals actions occurred in Spain between 1845 and 1939, which are integrated into its already known file are presented F.X. In two other pieces, Rogelio López Cuenca plays with the trivialization of icons: a write in Arabic letters the word Seven up under the Catholic symbol associated with the seven sorrows of the Virgin, and other Dior, Chinique and Chanel, framing the hand of Fatima, symbol of Islam. The photographer Vanessa Beecroft was inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini for his image of a black woman breastfeeding her two small children, sitting on a throne and wearing a striking red dress. Acquires an iconic image tone black virgin, in Catalonia also links to a tradition itself.

In short an artistic reflection from different perspectives on the dialectic creation / destruction.

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Caixaforum of Barcelona mutated in Versailles

Le Brun’s drawings made for the Hall of Mirrors at the royal palace come to Barcelona

Charles Le Brun in Caixaforum BCN

Unpacking boxes, bulbs for placing and pictures to hang. This is the material that builds up in the rooms of CaixaForum where November 18th will wear the exhibition ‘Drawing Versailles. Sketches and cartoons by Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) ‘.

These days it touches the sample is mounted. And there are the experts removing the packaging of the pieces that arrived last week directly from the Louvre in Paris. They did properly protected as boxes, air conditioning and anti-vibration systems, which are something extremely fragile works of art. The last to come out has done this Thursday from the bowels of his protective shell has emerged a beautiful drawing of Pluto of 131 x 111 cm. Their fate has been a niche embedded in the wall then sealed with glass. The light that illuminates missing. It will dim. Not more than 50 lux. Things of the fragile paper.

Pluto looks and with Hercules, another drawing of the same characteristics presented at the same conditions-under one cover that reproduces the ceiling of the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, space where Le Brun made paintings left from the drawings . Both Pluto and Hercules are fragments of the central part of the composition of the roof, one that shows the episode “The king rules the world ‘with a Louis XIV idealized manning the helm of state surrounded by mythological figures. And other sketches of the same composition, the room also meets the sketches of one of the fragments of the Franco-Dutch War, another reason of Versailles ceiling frescoes. Thursday also were unpacking.

The ceiling of the great room of the official residence of the kings of France is not the only rebuilt in CaixaForum, in the adjoining room you can see part of the staircase of the Ambassadors, the plan to impress and coerce visits Luis XIV Access .

The paintings that were to dazzle the guests also came from the hand of Le Brun. And his sketches, of course, hang in this room. Everything, from November 18, with an entry to the exhibition refers to Versailles. Also in the assembly process, as no.

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Environment and cinema come together in FICMA Barcelona

From 5th to 12th November, the International Festival of Environmental Film will screen 120 films in different areas of the city, also in schools

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With the slogan “Change is underway,” the International Festival of Environmental Film makes Barcelona the world capital of environmental awareness with the projection from 5 to 12 November, 120 films in different areas: the CaixaForum, the CosmoCaixa Cinemas Girona, several universities (University of Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University Blanquerna) and schools across Catalonia.

The festival, the oldest of its kind in the world, is celebrating the 22nd edition doubles and programming. “We are a film festival that moves and generates awareness, and always committed for social change and promoting environmental education from broadcasting,” said Claudio Lauria, founder and president of FICMA.

FICMA decided to start with two films that combine music, film and environment, with 2 characters: Dr. Jane Goodall awarded the Gold Sun Special Festival 2015, starring the short Trio Jane’s Music of Life in Why is that nature is also music, and the Orchestra of Recycled Instruments Cateura, a band formed by young Paraguayans marginalized areas from which their country has become famous throughout the world to play with instruments recycled materials. The orchestra carries the European premiere of the film harmonic Landfill.

The 2015 edition of the CaixaForum FICMA will close on November 12 with the screening of Last of the Elephant Men, a documentary about the relationship of an indigenous tribe with elephants and how to deal with a desperate fight for survival.

The official, the works competing for the Golden Sun Festival consists of 40 films, documentaries and animated films and fiction, selected from over 1,300 productions 100 countries. These figures have exceeded all records of participation in the history of the Festival. Apart from these films, over 80 films have been chosen also to be part of this ambitious program, divided into two sections: Visions of the World and Small FICMA.

Projections in the classroom

This edition FICMA has created a new section. Each named a Hall Cinema, the festival offers teachers of primary and secondary schools in Catalonia the possibility of a documentary project centers free catalog of works, divided according to age groups and themes, such as climate change, waste, renewable energy, sustainability and water shortages. The aim of this activity is that the environmental documentary genre reaches schools in the form of educational materials and encourage, thereby ecological awareness among young people.

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Joan Miró and his things

The foundation of the artist explores the importance of the objects in his work

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If there is a recurring and ever-present in the path of Joan Miró element, it is the object. He started collecting them almost gather-, continued to represent in his paintings, and then include them literally in his paintings that eventually began to take volume, and so came the sculptures with objects, finally turning fabrics into objects in themselves. “The object is a constant in his work,” said Rosa Maria Malet, director of the Fundació Miró, a constant that, paradoxically, to date had not been of a sample. Now the center that the artist thought of Montjuïc spun a whole argument about this evidence in an exhibition entitled, how could it be otherwise, Miró and object, and sponsored by the BBVA Foundation after Barcelona will land in CaixaForum Madrid.

The sample (from tomorrow until January 17) brings together 120 pieces among paintings, ceramics and sculptures, covers a wide time span from 1916-1981, and presents new works in Barcelona as toys and Portrait of a ballerina. The latter delicious fabric that belonged to André Breton in which the pigments have been replaced by objects: the dancer is a giant pin and clothing, a pen. The piece was made shortly after Miró proclaimed its intention to “assassinate painting” and after internalizing the famous phrase of Lautreamont that so fascinated the Surrealists: beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella. The dancer looks in the sample compared to the first painter assemblies built in 1931. Parts created from bones, cardboard, nails, sand and cogs’ are so fragile that is almost a miracle they survived, “notes William Jeffett, curator of the exhibition.

But before opening their fabrics to objects, Miró opened their study. The artist created a kind of imaginary museum in his workshop with crib figures, Mallorcan whistles, tools, children’s drawings, puppets … that served as inspiration: “I only use the objects you encounter; the gather everyone in my workshop, which is great. Put objects around on the floor, and I choose that or that other “he said. In the exhibition, a display-style cabinets merveilles surreal exhibits some of these objects, including a plate holder that appears in the ear of wheat, 1922, one of the two still lifes coming from the MOMA in New York and they are the first pictorial representation of objects by Miró.

Burned and lacerated fabrics

A further step in the growing universe “objetual” Miró was the incorporation of collage in the early 30s, which eventually led to the use of unusual materials conglomerate, metal, fibrocemento- as pictorial support and eventually turned parts Art objects.

There are hanging or ironing board brush covered by Miró in the 50 Sometimes he did was to combine found objects to create new “Everyday elements, seemingly inconsequential, made them a new life , a new being, when combined to shape a woman, a character, a monument “Malet says. It example spoon and box mark the hours on the clock wind. The latter, one of the many bronze sculptures that Miró made in the 60s and that combined with his efforts to turn the paint object. Meta getting his lacerated and burned fabrics closing the sample. An exhibition “Miró explores the desire to build from visual metaphors objects,” concludes Jeffett.

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Le Brun, Phillips Collection and the Ming Dynasty protagonists in CaixaForum Barcelona

The Barcelona museum this fall hopes to become “a little Louvre, to host two exceptional projects”

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The drawings by Charles Le Brun for Versailles, the masterpieces of the Philipps Collection and Ming dynasty will be the protagonists of the exhibitions of the 2015-2016 season at CaixaForum Barcelona.

The Deputy Director General of the Caixa Foundation, Elisa Duran, explained in the presentation of the season “CaixaForum Barcelona this fall will be a little Louvre, to host two exceptional projects.”

Versailles drawing show for the first time since the eighteenth century, cartons and drawings that made Charles Le Brun to decorate the Hall of Mirrors and Staircase of the Ambassadors of the Palace of Versailles, which have been restored thanks to the entity Barcelona bank.

This exhibition will be presented in Barcelona between the months of November and February before exhibition in Madrid and Paris, bringing together 30 cartons of large format 1: 1 scale.

The second project in collaboration with the French museum, Animals and Pharaohs, and exhibited at the headquarters of Madrid, meet from September 23th until January next 430 works and objects only to detail the role and significance of the animal figure in the ancient Egypt, including 14 mummies of cats, dogs, sheep, ibis, hawks, fish, crocodiles and snakes.
In the spring of 2016, the biggest names in the history of art will be installed in Barcelona in the exhibition Masterpieces of Impressionism and modern art at the Phillips Collection, with 60 paintings by Goya, El Greco, Manet, Corot, Courbet, Sisley Van Gogh, Degas, Picasso, Modigliani, Kandinsky, Pollock and Rothko.

With Ming: the golden rule (June-October 2016), CaixaForum will announce the art and culture of the Ming Dynasty, which dominated China for nearly three centuries, between 1368 and 1644, a time when 16 emperors promoted a complex system imperial, expanded social structures and boosted the economy and consumer culture, which resulted in an increase in population from about 65 to 175 million people. This exhibition will see more than one hundred objects from the collections of Nanjing Museum, including ceramics, paintings, jewelry, textiles and works of enamel, gold and porcelain.

The photograph will be displayed in the season by Philippe Halsman with Surprise me! (July-November 2016), a comprehensive retrospective that will affect your relationship with thirty Salvador Dalí and his numerous portraits show jumping celebrities such as actresses Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, as part of its popular series jumpology .

In the contemporary context, Duran has highlighted two projects: a large exhibition curated by artist Juliao Sarmento from the collections of La Caixa, the MACBA and the Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), and the second edition of “Comisart” cycle three exhibitions in which young curators offer refreshing readings on the current art from the funds of the entity.

Elisa Duran reported that seven CaixaForum in Spain received 2.3 million visitors and have hosted 27 exhibitions. The headquarters of Barcelona last season 2014-15 received a total of 813,000 visitors, 8% more than the previous.
Duran said “for reasons of agenda,” except for “Animals and Pharaohs”, the rest of the exhibits will begin in Barcelona.

La Caixa Foundation has a budget of 500 million, two thirds of which will be devoted to the social sphere and $ 100 million for cultural and scientific dissemination, which includes exhibitions, construction and maintenance of schools.

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