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 ‘farmhouse’ Torres Garcia at Sarria neighborhood in Barcelona, empty and unused

The premiere of an extensive retrospective at the MoMA in New York rescues the trace of the artist in Barcelona

Torres García at the MoMA in New York

The Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA) pays tribute this October with a colorful retrospective. The Palau de la Generalitat looks in a room in your name with frescos that decorated the Saló Sant Jordi in1916 at the request of Prat de la Riba. Frequenting the “Quatre Gats’ and worked with Antoni Gaudí-Design windows to the Holy Family, Eugeni d’Ors, Joan Miró, Ramon Casas … And, despite everything, the imprint of Joaquín Torres García (1875-1949) in Barcelona remains totally forgotten.

The ‘casitas Torres García’ in the street Hort Vila Sarria 27-29 await you boarded a municipal intervention that returned to life and a new use that service area. They worked this complex Uruguayan-Catalan artist, who in November 1919 agreed to a cabinetmaker neighborhood production peculiar collection of art toys, a number of mills of wood, colors and transformable, who devised as child introductory artistic creation and abstraction.

The farm is owned by the municipality and was about to be demolished to align the streets leading to the Via Augusta. Neighborhood Association and Major de Sarrià library The Peixera which specializes in children’s book artist and closed during the crisis prompted active mobilization between 2007 and 2011, that the pick away and won the municipal commitment to conserve and heritage local interest. They are two of only six houses on the ground floor and a floor that still retain the structure of ‘Catalan Volta’. “They are the last urban farms that remain, testimony of the traditional architecture of Sarria,” explains Eva Ceano-Vivas, president of the AVV brand Sarria.

Entities popular culture came even prepare a detailed project, which have been submitted to the governments of Hereu, Trias and Colau- to rehabilitate the space and make it ‘home institutions and Culture Sarrianenca’. Give shelter to such gegants colles of devils and the Drac and the neighborhood. “We keep gegants in the district headquarters, but we have nowhere to gather and file and other material are scattered private homes”, explains Montse Iglesias, the Gegantera Colla de Sarria.

“Over 20 years ago we asked a local” laments. Teresa lasted, owner of The Peixera and one of the activists involved in the local campaign, encouraged to go beyond the artistic memory and rescue the building, “even with some kind of stable relationship with the Torres García Museum of Montevideo”. “It is so important for the history of art and so little known here! Artist,” he sighs.

The new municipal government confirms that the assignment of a new use is still pending and the part of the plan of facilities for the district which provides a consensus with the entities. “We want to keep them but will be implemented using a participative manner during the preparation of the District Action Plan (PAD) and the Municipal Action Plan (PAM),” he says. Ada Colau team must negotiate with the opposition these roadmaps, which could delay its approval until the summer.

More than a game

Toys are not a minor element in the work of Garcia Torres, on the contrary. “We attached great importance, because condensed their willingness to make art education” lasted, stressing that took them with him on every international move explains. Other contemporary authors such as Paul Klee, Pablo Ruiz Picasso or Bauhaus School, also explored the children’s game as an artistic practice. Today, however, those toys are considered avantgarde art and the Uruguayan have been exhibited in the showcases of museums such as the Metropolitan in New York, the Oscar Niemeyer of Brazil and the IVAM in Valencia.

Manufacturing of Sarria operated during the first years 20. Torres García designing parts and its partner, the artisan Rambla Francesc Teixidor, the materialized. Rambla had his workshop in Hort de la Vila and was a renowned cabinetmaker in the then independent town of Sarria, which also was commissioned to carve the stalls of the Plenary Hall of the Town Hall, now the headquarters of the district. The company Aladdin New York Toys rights bought them toys, which manufactured and sold in the United States as well as in Europe. However, the two partners ended up breaking the Barcelona project and was buried.

A rising value

Torres Garcia was an itinerant artist -he lived in Uruguay, Spain, USA, France, Italy … -, one of the first creators globalized, but lived in Catalunya for much of his creative life. Enmarcarle costs in an aesthetic trend, because alternated with noucentistes and modernists, left figurative and abstract work, he founded the Constructive Universalism and created his own school in Latin America. “It was a ‘rare’ for life time and failed a lot of fame, maybe we understand better today, now that we are also a complex, fluid society” reflects lasted. “When we defended them not to shoot the houses, and we realize that Torres Garcia is one of the artists who will be revalued during the first quarter of the twenty-first century is going well,” he recalls Teresa lasted.

Indeed, the extensive retrospective at MoMA -¡190 parts – is not the only exhibition of the author, one of the most prominent representatives of the pictorial vanguards in the Southern Cone. He also starred in recent samples in Spain: this July at the Museum of Fine Arts of Murcia (Mubam) until this Wednesday at the Dalmau Gallery in Barcelona, ​​which has a close relationship with the artist’s family since the 70s also his pieces have been seen at the Museu Picasso de Barcelona (2014) and the Reina Sofia in Madrid (2013). The MNAC gave him a temporary four months in 2011 and for a year starred in a room of the museum, thanks to the timely transfer of 14 works by their grandchildren.

The current MoMA exhibition will travel to Madrid on May 19th to September 11th, 2016 and Malaga of October 10th, 2016 to February 5th 2017, but is not intended calling at any Catalan population.

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