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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The art of recycling

The CCCB hosts the 12th edition of the Drap-Art International Creative Recycling Festival of Catalonia

Drap-Art Festival of Catalonia-2015

Until 3 January 2016 returned to the Center of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona a new edition of the Art-free cloth with more than 100 pieces of art recycling.

During the public announcement opened this year received 162 projects from artists of different nationalities. Among all, 82 works by 25 artists were chosen for the exhibition. In addition, the exhibition will feature 20 pieces and installations of artists. In total, more than 100 works and 50 artists represented that make recycling much more than a form of expression; a path complaint.

This year the message should convey opens revolves around gentrification, gender violence or waste technology.

Tanja Grass, President of Drap-Art, says that “another novelty Drap Art-15 is that you will see more installations in other editions. Various artistic projects have been invited to interact with the work, to participate actively. ”

Over-activity of the Drap-Art 15

During the festival, the CCCB will be the center of numerous activities such as conferences, interventions in public space, performances, audiovisuals, performances and concerts. CaboSanRoque, Residual Gurus and Pedro Burruezo are some of the concerts will go to the fair. Nor shortage of creative recycling workshops proposals as diverse as creating a stop motion Christmas story, build a robot cardboard or attend an amazing concert of frogs.

All works of Rag-Art, both in the show, as the exhibition are for sale. This makes the festival a real art gallery suitable for all budgets, as prices of parts that can be found varies from 2 to 10,000.

International Creative Recycling Festival of Catalonia is not the only activity organized as Drap-Art association. The market Drap-Art is present on Saturdays in spring and autumn in the Plaza Real. In addition, currently Drap-Art works in exporting its festival: from 11 to 16 April 2016 will be held in Montevideo Uruguay Drap-Art. From 9 September to 9 October 2016 also arrive Re: New Festival, an event in Pittsburgh (USA) dedicated to sustainability, recycling and building collaboration with Drap- Art and its artists as its focus.

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The World Press Photo 2015 landed in Barcelona

The CCCB hosts the exhibition of the best 134 photographs from 2015 today, which can be seen until December 13 | “The photo is like a mirror to look at himself,” says the winner Mads Nissen

World-Press-Photo-2015

The most important events of this 2015, as immigration refugee crisis, the war in Ukraine and the Ebola epidemic, star photo exhibition World Press Photo 2015 Photographic Social Vision Foundation, arriving Thursday to Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB), where it can be seen until 13 December, after his tour of other Spanish cities

At a press conference Tuesday, the director of the foundation, Silvia Omedes, it explained that this exhibition comes under the slogan View photographs to understand seven 134 multimedia works, selected from 97,912 images submitted to the contest by 5,692 photographers 131 countries, 281 Spaniards. In addition to today’s booming, exposure through other issues such as pollution, nature and sports, as well as modern habits like fast food.

The Barcelona edition will at its inauguration attended by the winner, Mads Nissen, who, present at the press conference, explained about his image, which portrays the intimacy of a homosexual couple in St. Petersburg (Russia) – “The picture It is like a mirror to look at himself “and assess tolerance itself.

“For me, photography is empathy with others and through it connect with nations, cultures and other people,” she summarized the artist on its objectives in this picture, and explained that the image is to arouse in the viewer a question of his own tolerance and your community. As gestation of her image, which has had witnessed in Russia and some hooligans got punched two gay: “This incident affected me and I understood that the power I had was my camera.”

The third prize in the short film section of the multimedia competition, the Spanish Carlos Spottorno, with The Gates of Europe- project, considered that, judging by the immigration crisis in Europe evident in this edition, the exhibition reveals “manifestations of something It is happening in the European Union, which are coming cracks “. “My work represents very well what is happening in Europe with the forced migrants who rush out to sea,” he said, glad to be at the multimedia section as a new tool with great narrative possibilities to explain the world.

Complementary activities

The foundation has organized a series of events to reflect on photography and attract more public room, such as school and, new this year, guided visits to company workers.

With an entry of six euros, Omedes has dedicated the exhibition to the public without which the organization would not be possible after the foundation lost its main sponsor in 2009, and has also devoted this year to the founding partner of the Silvia Pérez Crespo, Mahala Communication, died last Friday: “We dedicated the experience of this year it was a great professional.”

The director of the CCCB, Vicenç Villatoro, has claimed that documentary photography “is one of the best tools to understand the present”, for example the situation of refugees and claimed that in reality magmatic photojournalist frames and choose what remains inside and outside offering an approach to the viewer.

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