The Tàpies Foundation of Barcelona celebrates 25 years

Antoni Tapies Foundation Barcelona

Tàpies Museum will open its doors free of charge between 18 am and 24 am next Friday, December 11, to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its opening, according to the Barcelona institution today.

The public visiting the 11th during those hours at the headquarters of the Foundation can be visited at different exposure routes commented “Tàpies. Collection of the artist” and discover other areas of the center as the file or to attend the concert of Saxon Wolf.

Also, the 25-year catalog of publications of the Foundation, led by Clara Plasencia and Enric Farrés, and the book “Conversation with Manuel Borja-Villel,” by Manuel Borja-Villel, Marcelo Expósito and Jorge Ribalta will be presented.

On December 16, on the other hand, the books “Les arts de l’espace. Écrits interventions et sur l’architecture” will be presented by Joana Masó and David Bestué, and “unfinished Philosophy” by Marina Garces and Xavier Antich.

For the 17th is scheduled the presentation of “The procés llarg. Culture and politics to Catalunya contemporania  (1937-2014)”, with Jordi Amat and Jorge Luis Marzo, and “Bilbao Old Moon” with Joseba Zulaika and Carles Guerra .

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The contemporary art fair Swab comes with more galleries and programs to Barcelona

From 1st to 4th October the Italian Pavilion will host a total of 65 galleries from 22 countries around the world will exhibit more than one hundred works by emerging artists

Swab 2015-Barcelona

Swab 2015 International Fair of Contemporary Art in Barcelona, ​​reinvents itself and grows another edition. From 1st to 4th October, a total of 65 galleries (in 2014 participated in 2013 were 59 and 52) of a total of 22 countries around the world exhibit the work of more than one hundred artists emerging in the Italian Pavilion at Fira de Barcelona.

Swab was born in 2006 as an initiative of the private collection of contemporary art Diezy7 Space Barcelona. Since then, with the support of important national and international galleries. In the first edition held in 2007 at the Maritime Museum was attended by 42 galleries from 13 countries and was attended by 6,000 people. The year 2010 was one of consolidation, with 13,000 visitors the Italian Pavilion at the current location. The excellent reception from the public, as well as interest in new artistic approaches have generated the creation of new programs.

Programs Swab

Swab Seed, curated by David Armengol, gives voice to a series of proposals that have opened separate step outside the institutions in cities such as Barcelona, ​​Madrid and Berlin.

Juan Canela Swab Performance presents a series of specific actions and interventions related to the body, time, space and action.

Swab Forum will feature collaboration with De Appel Arts Centre (Amsterdam).

Swab Thinks Continue this space for reflection on emerging art galleries in hand, renowned artists and curators. This space presented during the 2nd, 3rd and 4th of October a series of lectures, debates and panel discussions that will dialogue artists, curators, collectors and critics think together cultural transformations of the contemporary world and the place in him artistic practice.

SOLO Swab, curated by Direlia Lazo and Carolina Ariza is an area meets individual presentations of Latin American artists, with emphasis on creative practices procedural and documentary confronted with the official story.

Swab ‘Zh¿ngguó: New photography Chinese’ demonstrates that contemporary Chinese art is not a mere copy of the West.

Swab Drawing Applications, this program integrates design, architecture journalism, psychiatry, calligraphy botany.

Swab 2015 General Program also hosts a significant number of galleries and consolidated with much prestige in the global market of contemporary art. Likewise, gives way to a series of new galleries creation and gives them the opportunity to participate for the first time in an international art fair.

Swab arrive at a historic bus

To mark the eighth edition of Swab Barcelona International Fair of Contemporary Art in collaboration with the organization and enabled TMB two historic buses will shuttle from the center of Barcelona fen a route to the Italian Pavilion where Swab Barcelona will be held.

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Montserrat disclose their Mesopotamian treasures

For the first time, a book detailing the hundred most important pieces of the largest collection of Spain dedicated to the ancient civilizations of the Middle East

Montserrat disclose their Mesopotamian treasures

Coinciding with the difficult political, social and cultural moment living some countries now controlled by the Islamic State and that once formed part of the first great civilization in history, the Museum of Montserrat has decided to value its Mesopotamian background with publication of a catalog that, for the first time to the general public about the main parts of Spain’s largest collection of Mesopotamian antiquities.

And, in fact, few know that the Benedictine mountain treasures such volume of Mesopotamian art, some 1,200 pieces, of which correspond to a thousand cuneiform tablets. “There is in the mind as a collection Montserrat you were not cataloged,” explains Javier Uriach, editor of the Mesopotamian collection of the Museum of Montserrat presented today at the Palau Robert in Barcelona in the presence of Abbot Josep M. Soler.

The catalog has selected a hundred pieces, all brought here nearly a century ago by Father Ubach from the region lying between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. “At present, marked by strife and violence in the Middle East, take a relief and a significant historical importance descriptions and photographs that Father Ubach made in these countries he will soon hundred years when there was peace,” says Father Pius-Ramon Tragan, Scriptorium Biblicum et Orientale of Montserrat. “It should reflect on how, in the 20s of last century there were all kinds of cults in the area of ​​Iraq, and now because of religious intolerance is destroying a irrestituible testimony. Lucky parts of Montserrat are saved, as that are in museums around the world, “said Uriach.

The most relevant findings

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Among the pieces which includes the catalog, written by the specialist in Sumerian and Akkadian languages ​​and member of CSIC, Ignacio Marquez Rowe, include the weight of a talent as the father duck Ubach acquired in a village outside Baghdad and that the monk was the most valuable work of the Biblical Museum, which he founded to offer a historical and cultural Biblical scripture (embryo of the current montserratino museum) context. Only four similar pieces are known worldwide. “Father Ubach discovered on the door of a humble home, used as nerves,” explains Uriach.

Another relevant findings showing the catalog is a fragment of ‘kudurru’, a kind of monolith Babylonian kings placed inside temples. “It’s a symbolic piece, you can see, carved in elegant relief, symbols of gods or Papsukal Gula, goddess of medicine,” says the editor of the work.

Among the cuneiform tablets catalog collecting herbal notes on a piece of medical science or dedicated to astronomical knowledge, especially relevant in a culture that reached accurately predict celestial phenomena. And as a curiosity, the work also shows a tablet stored within its on clay, no doubt, the ancestor of our paper charts.

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