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"Parallel Benet Rossell". Notes by Teresa Grandas, co-curator of the exhibition
The dandy’s monocle, the zoetrope, the fish-eye, the kaleidoscope, the telescope, the microscope... Paradoxes of the micro and the macro that punctuate the work of Benet Rossell (Ager, 1937), inventor of an original alphabet of icons, graphisms and, calligrams or “benigrams”, as rich and full of nuances as any artist’s pallet. The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) approaches the vast production of this multifaceted artor from two perspectives: his films and his calligraphies, which enable us to reveal the interplays that constantly appear in his work.
Video lenght: 2.48 min
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"Gil J Wolman. I am immortal and alive" Notes by Bartomeu Marí, MACBA's director and co-curator of the exhibition
He invented the “mégapneumie”, poems of breath and pure sound, which he belched out at his legendary recitals in Paris. Also ‘Scotch art’, in which he mutilated and spoiled artworks in order to imbue them with new signs and meanings. He was a journalist, a revolutionary, a ship’s captain, a drug trafficker, a lorry driver, a barman and… an artist. In his own words, “Gil J Wolman, born in 1929, met a few people, took part in a few demonstrations, did a few things.” Under the title Gil J Wolman. I am immortal and alive, MACBA devotes a major exhibition to one of the freest, most enigmatic and most discreet artists of the second half of the last century.
Video lenght: 2.41 min
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"With a Probability of Being Seen. Dorothee and Konrad Fischer. Archives of an attitude" Notes by Friedrich Meschede, curator of the exhibition
A single exhibition was enough to give him worldwide fame. The venue? A corridor, ten metres long and three wide in a city that was little more than a backwater in contemporary art: Düsseldorf. Konrad Fischer was an enormous influence on a generation of artists who led one of the last avant-garde movements in western art in the second half of the 20th century. The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) invites spectators to come “Bei Konrad Fischer”, to Konrad Fischer’s “home”, as his gallery was known. There we can discover some 300 works by 40 artists, a treasure-trove assembled by Dorothee and Konrad Fischer over nearly half a century.
Video lenght: 3.58 min
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"John Baldessari. Pure Beauty" Notes by Bartomeu Marí, curator of the exhibition
Thirteen minutes and one same hand that writes a single phrase, "I will not make any more boring art", over and over again on a blank sheet of paper, like the most banal of school punishments. The work is in fact entitled I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art (1971) and its author is John Baldessari (National City, California, 1931). "I love the idea that, in a world in which everything has a use, it's possible to make something gratuitous; and I love to leave people a little unsettled." Under the title John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, taken from one of his first works exploring language, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) presents the largest retrospective exhibition ever mounted in Spain dedicated to one of the most innovative and venerated artists on the international scene.
Video lenght: 2.18 min
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"Rodney Graham. Through the Forest" Notes by Friedrich Meschede, curator of the exhibition
With source material deriving from Georg Büchner, Sigmund Freud, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, the Grimm brothers, Richard Wagner, Stéphane Mallarmé and Picasso, among many others, Rodney Graham (1949, Abbotsford, Canada) never ceases to delve, playfully and theatrically, into the history of the art of our times. The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) explores the evolution of this fundamental artist’s oeuvre through his literary appropriations, as well as through his films, photographs and pictorial works.
Video lenght: 4.12 min
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"Ray Johnson. Please Add to & Return" Notes by Alex Sainsbury, curator of the exhibition
The North American artist Ray Johnson (Detroit, 1927 – New York, 1995) is one of the most unknown yet most influential artists of his generation. This exhibition, the first to be dedicated to the artist in Spain, presents a retrospective of his collages and mailings.
Video lenght: 3 min
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"The Anarchy of Silence. John Cage and Experimental Art". Notes by Julia Robinson, curator of the exhibition
His name is highly familiar, but his work not widely or well known. John Cage (1912-92) defined such a radical practice of musical composition that he changed the course of modern music in the last century and shaped a new conceptual horizon for post-war art. With the aim of capturing the relevance of Cage's contribution to contemporary art, the MACBA presents the most extensive exhibition to be devoted to the artist on the international stage since his death.
Video lenght: 3.13 min
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"Modernologies". Notes by Sabine Breitwieser, curator of the exhibition
The aim of the Modernologies exhibition is to achieve an account of the state of artistic research and to discuss selected contributions to the subject matter that appear central after two to three decades of an ever intensely blazing conflict about the legacy of modernity and modernism.
Video lenght: 2.19 min
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"Time as Matter. MACBA Collection. New acquisitions". Notes by Bartomeu Marí, MACBA's director and curator of the exhibition
With a view to showing the works acquired by the MACBA Collection in the last two years, as yet unseen in that context, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art devotes all of its exhibition space to its collections: the three floors of the Museum, the Capella dels Àngels and the exhibition hall in the Studies and Documentation Centre.
Video lenght: 2.19 min
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"Cildo Meireles". Notes by Bartomeu Marí, MACBA's director and curator of the exhibition
Without seeking to be a retrospective, the Cildo Meireles exhibition offers a survey of the work of the artist through his large-scale installations, drawings and objects created between 1967 and 2008. Cildo Meireles (Rio de Janeiro, 1948) is the inventor of an œuvre of extraordinary complexity, which has its roots in the confluence of the politics, philosophy and symbols of our time.
Video lenght: 2.15 min
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"Thomas Bayrle. I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore". Notes by Chus Martinez, curator of the exhibition
This exhibition offers an overall vision of the praxis of German artist Thomas Bayrle (Berlin, 1937) from the end of the 1960s until now.
Video lenght: 2.10 min
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"Rabascall. Production 1964-1982". Notes by Bartomeu Marí, MACBA's director and curator of the exhibition
The exhibition by Joan Rabascall (Barcelona, 1935) organised by the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona focuses on the works created by the artist from the beginning of the 1960s until the early 1980s, an era in which the use and manipulation of images from the mass media constructs a discourse that is openly critical of the mechanisms, messages and platitudes these media impose.
Video lenght: 3 min
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"Universal Archive". Notes by Jorge Ribalta, curator of the exhibition
This exhibition analyses the idea of a document in the history of photography on the basis of the study and staging of a number of debates about the genre during the 20th century. With the aim of assessing various hypotheses about the meanings and mechanisms of the documentary, it traces a historical itinerary that gets under way with the beginning of the hegemony of photography in the illustrated press in the first third of the 20th century, before arriving at the purported crisis of photographic realism in the digital era at the end of the century. For all that, the exhibition is not a history of the genre, nor does it exhaust its possible definitions, but instead attempts to study how the photographic document has been constituted — in a consistently ambivalent and polemical way — in certain historical contexts.
Video lenght: 2.30 min
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