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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MACBA opens ‘branch’ in Poble Nou with ‘The botiga de l’Anson’

Martí Anson exercised ‘botiguer’ in a furniture design and home accessories that actually is part of the exhibition ‘Espècies d’espais’

Marti-Anson´s shop

Martí Anson (Mataró, 1967) is an artist of multiple registrations and superb sense to detect stories, good stories, not simply says they live in the first person. Has been sailing builder (remembering to Fizcarraldo, armed one in the cloister of Santa Monica then could not get out the door), soccer goalie, painter, taxi driver, mason, architect … And since botiguer few weeks of exercises in the botiga de l’Anson, a furniture design and home accessories that actually form part of the exhibition Espècies d’espais, one of the best proposals that have left us this year MACBA , with the help of the curator Frederic Montornés.

The botiga de l’Anson just opened its doors in the old hardware store Balius-all a reference in the lives of the Poble Nou district, whose industrial past emerges openly in view of the public-and inside, what’s in really is the story of Joaquim Anson, father of the artist, who in the sixties and seventies and altruistically, devised a series of designer furniture, modern and simple, and affordable … Bureau, drafting tables, shelves , armchairs, sofas … that constructed in Flanders pine massive without screwing, always adapted to the space and needs of its users, and that, thanks to word of mouth, they ran becoming a real phenomenon in Mataro.

Joaquim Anson, that life as manager earned in school Sant Gregori of Barcelona and together with architects Jordi Capell or Narcís Majó was strongly committed to the cooperative movements of the time, eventually opening her own shop, Cau Blac in which also he introduced his furniture designs that could only be found in Barcelona as the TMC lamp Mila, the cruet Marquina or the ashtray Copenhagen André Ricard. “But when he lost his personal relationship with customers lost interest in the project and left,” says Martí Anson.

He created in 2012 Joaquim and Son, a company to recover that furniture, and now has developed a system of industrial production that lowers the cost (the option of do it yourself) and converts the panels where parts come in beautiful stamped canvases. In botiga de l’Anson not sold, but the story is priceless, and can be found also lamps team of architects Maio, fabrics and cushions degenerated (Fito Conesa and Pilar Cruz) or graphic designs from Ferran elOtro.
The store, at Pallars, 173, is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 17 to 20 hours. Until mid-January.

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Barcelona held the first festival Anime

The B-Anime will be held from 9th to 11th October with the aim of bringing the Barcelona public at large genre of Japanese animation

B Anime festival Barcelona

Those interested in the world of Japanese animation will be a festival in his city tailor-made for them. Barcelona held from 9th to 11th October, the first edition of B-Anime, a festival dedicated to the genre of Japanese animation known as “anime.”

The event stems from the need to approach this kind of animation audiovisual Japanese citizenship and aims to encourage youth participation in the consumption of culture and create a space for exchange and discussion between professionals and fans.

The B-Anime created by the Association jellyfish, and Magoexperience Magoproduction, wants to bring anime premieres in Barcelona unpublished, for commercial reasons not reach the big screen in the city. In addition, it will promote Japanese culture related to gender organizing all kinds of workshops, from writing to a kitchen.

The B-Anime held in six locations in the city: the MACBA Auditorium, places of Angels and Joan Corominas, the Blanquerna Faculty of Communication, the Film Archive of Catalonia and space Room 1418.

In the Japanese animation festival will be from both television and film. Regarding television episodes of series like the magic sword, Glasslip, Shirobako and teen drama Love Live! School Idol Project. Regarding the recent cinema films will be old Tamako are released from Love Story and The Garden of Words, and the recovery of Asian animation peaks as 5 meters per second -of Makoto Shinkai, and La chica que saltaba a través del tiempo, one of the most emblematic Mamoru Hosoda.

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Mullican, Lopez and Llena, stars of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend

Internationally acclaimed artists will be among the protagonists of the first edition of a weekend full of exhibitions, actions and interventions

Barcelona Gallery Weekend

Internationally renowned artists as Matt Mullican, Antonio Lopez and Antoni Llena will be among the protagonists of the first edition of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend, a weekend of exhibitions, actions and interventions in spaces that will be held from October 1st to 4th.

On behalf of the Association of Barcelona Art gallery, event organizer, Joan Anton Maragall explained today in the Gallery Weekend presentation aims to demonstrate “the artistic potential of the city” and place it between “international industry benchmark.”

It is an initiative in which Art Barcelona has been working for two years, and “from the beginning has attracted interest in the gallery sector, including in galleries that are not of this partnership.”

From the point of view of the artistic world gallerism, “Barcelona was very stop and had been difficult to find a consensus initiative taking, which was what the government asked us,” said Maragall.

The week aims, as Maragall, to “put Barcelona on the international contemporary art scene, galleries closer to town and retrieve local collectors.”

The Gallery Weekend, which includes the participation of the City of Barcelona and the Generalitat, and the support of the Ministry of Culture and the city of L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, will offer a program based on four routes galleries, institutions and unusual spaces, plus other cultural, intellectual and social initiatives.

The kick-off will take place on October 1st in all spaces and galleries and curated at the MACBA, which will host the opening ceremony and open city in which attendees can see the museum exhibits until midnight.

Forty spaces, including 21 galleries, collected proposals for national and international artists, both contemporary and historical art.

The participating galleries show the best of their programming from internationally established artists as Matt Mullican, Antonio Lopez and Mladen Stilinovic to significant proposals such as Antoni Llena, Perejaume, Rogelio López Cuenca and Daniel G. Andújar and Francesc Ruiz, representative this year Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

In the galleries who bet on the historical avant-garde works by artists such as Joaquín Torres-García, coinciding with his retrospective at the MOMA in New York, Fausto Melotti Alberto Magnelli and in dialogue with Joan Miró, and group it shows exhibited works by Salvador Dalí Alexander Calder, Juan Gris, Julio Gonzalez, Miquel Barcelo, Antoni Miralda and Carlos Pazos.

The project already has precedents in Paris, Madrid and Berlin, with the participation of DNA galleries, Ana Mas Projects, Àngels Barcelona, ​​Artur Ramon, AL34, etHALL, Balaguer, Barbie Carles Taché, Estrany-de la Mota, Joan Prats, Marc Domenech, Marlborough, Senda, Sicart / Joan Gaspar, Trama, Nogueras Blanchard, Palmadotze, ProjecteSD and Sala Dalmau.

As a complementary activity, Barcelona Weekend Gallery will feature the “Compositions” program, a series of five projects commissioned for the occasion, curated by the team Latitudes (Max Andrews and Mariana Canepa Moon).

Mariana Canepa reported that the selected artists are David Bestué, Dora Garcia, Jordi Mitjà, with Pere Llobera Nilausen Rasmus and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané.

These artists continued Canepa, develop temporary interventions in unique venues outside the contemporary art circuit as the Freudian Field Library, the Geological Museum of the Seminary, the Umbracle the Ciutadella Park, the gardens of the Central del Raval or the old All Cosme industrial site in L’Hospitalet.

They have also been implicated in museums initiative and centers like the MACBA, the MNAC, the Picasso, the Blueproject Foundation, CaixaForum, the CCCB, the Center Key Art Room, the Miró foundations, Tàpies, Vila Casas, Sunol, Arranz-Bravo and Mies van der Rohe, and La Virreina Image Center.

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An exhibition of Picasso and Dali, jewel of Barcelona’s season in 2015

The Catalan capital will also include retrospectives dedicated to the Moche culture, still lifes Golden Age Spanish or Alvar Aalto

Portrait of Picasso In 1947 Dalí painted this fantastic piece of 64.1 x 54.7 inches portraying his colleague Pablo Ruiz Picasso. Both painters met on the first trip from Salvador to Paris, back in 1926 and exhibited works together on more than one occasion.

An exhibition on the relationship between Picasso and Dali is one of the main attractions of the artistic season start 2015 in Barcelona, which will also feature retrospectives dedicated to the Moche culture, still lifes Golden Age Spanish or Alvar Aalto.

Since March, the Museo Picasso show at the exhibition “Picasso / Dali. Dali / Picasso” the relationship between the two geniuses of universal art of the twentieth century, illustrated from eighty pieces, including paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures.

In this first confrontation of the work of the two artists their relationship is drawn from the first trip to Paris Dali during the spring of 1926, when the painter ampurdanés visited the studio of Malaga, until its matching response to the barbarity of war Spanish civil or ideological disagreement from the 40s.

Another milestone of the Barcelona artistic season will be the exhibition “Gold, myths and rituals. Mochica Culture of Ancient Peru”, a project to display 200 masterpieces of pre-Columbian art from the Museo Larco Herrera, from pottery vessels textiles and jewelery to pieces and feathers.

CaixaForum remember from February the 25th anniversary of animation film studio Pixar, a show that started at the MOMA in New York in 2005 and over the years has grown to show audiences of all ages the scenes of feature animation company, with emblematic works like “Toy Story,” “Monsters,” “Cars” or “Ratatouille”.

The same cultural space Caixa will value between May and August the work of the Finnish architect Alvar Aalto (1898-1976), a key figure in architecture and design vanguard of the twentieth century; and display between June and September the exhibition “Animals, men and gods. The bestiary in Pharaonic Egypt,” which is on display at CaixaForum Madrid in the first half.

The Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (MNAC) deployed from October 2015 a sample of fifteen lifes of Spanish artists of the Golden Age, including Juan de Zurbaran, Juan van der Hamen or Juan de Arellano, from a private collection , some of which will join the permanent collection and will be exhibited at the new presentation of art from Renaissance and Baroque, which will open in 2016.

Between June and October, the Tàpies Foundation will make a retrospective look at the work of Antoni Tàpies from the 1940s until his death in 2012, with emphasis on the evolution of typologies, techniques and materials used by the artist.

The Miró Foundation shine a new major project throughout 2015, with the rethinking of its permanent collection, which will incorporate new works.

This center will offer from March the exhibition “Prophetia”, which will showcase works by artists from all over Europe to reflect on Europe from the current economic, political and social crisis.

In season MACBA the exhibition “Proletarian Chamber Theatre” dedicated to Argentine Osvaldo Lamborghini (Buenos Aires, 1940 – Barcelona, 1985), which presents for the first time in a museum, the most comprehensive anthology of his artistic works, allowing understand the radicality of this artist stabbing still uncharted by the aesthetic accounts of the eighties.

The CCCB presented in March “The Sebald variations,” an exhibition that will take the German writer WG Sebald, author of some of the fundamental books of our new century, as a thread of a question mark on the history of the twentieth century and its projections in the XXI.

The exhibition will coincide with the Kosmópolis literary festival will be a count of the different ways that Sebald’s work has influenced the visual arts and literature since 2001.

In the field of photography, highlight two proposals that will review the work of Leopoldo Pomès, Xavier Miserachs and Gabriel Homes in La Pedrera, the MACBA and the MNAC respectively.

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