Barcelona Art Guide - November

I.

Exhibition: Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye (part 3)
Artist: Julião Sarmento
Venue: Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona
Dates: Until November 25th, 2017

Julião Sarmento produces paintings, sculptures, photographs, videos, and mixed-media works infused with literature and architectural imagery. He is heavily influenced by the Postmodern aesthetic, in which existing texts and images are appropriated and re-combined to create new meaning and to challenge ingrained patterns of thinking. From his beginnings, in the middle of the seventies, the work of Julião Sarmento has been characterized by its archival character. Thus, in his work describes feminine silhouettes, architectural plans, literary fragments and objects. Often, these coded iconographies explicitly present us with the signs needed to identify the source of his imagery and its meaning. 

Julião Sarmento

II.

Exhibition: Vicky Uslé, Solo show
Artist: Vicky Uslé 
Venue: Tat Art Gallery
Dates: until November 3rd, 2017

Vicky Uslé is an emerging female artist born in Santander, Spain in 1981 that is enjoying a mid-career visual maturity. The exhibition will show the most recent work produced by Vicky, a constant journey through divergence and painting codes understood as vivid language, place of experience, desire and her own personal narrative. 

Vicky Uslé 

III.

Exhibition: Esteban Vicente. Color and Form
Artist: Esteban Vicente
Venue: Galeria Marc Domenech
Dates: Until November 17th 2017

"Esteban Vicente. Color and Form" is the most important exhibition of this artist ever organized in Catalonia. With almost 40 works, this exhibition proposes a complete view of the artist's aesthetic development, starting with his figurative works, when he exhibited in Barcelona in the early 30's, until his latest abstract paintings of the 90's after going through the abstract expressionist stage that became so relevant in the United States during the 40s and 50s. In fact, Esteban Vicente (Segovia, Spain, 1903 – Long Island, USA, 2001) was the only Spanish artist that belonged to the first generation of the renowned New York School. 

Esteban Vicente

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Barcelona Art Guide - October

I.

Exhibition: No Title
Artist: Andy Warhol
Venue: HG Art Gallery
Dates: Until October 28th, 2017

The exhibition spans Warhol’s career, from his painting of Donald Judd to his later portraits of Mao Tse-tung. Other major paintings and pieces represented include a Polymer paint on cotton of the celebrated Tuna Disaster, the blue dollar, Querelle, Marie-Louise Jenerette, Joseph Beuys, Lenin and a unique signed and dated Keith Haring t-shirt. The exhibition focuses on Warhol’s adoption of the silkscreen technique, a move that made him realize his seamless integration of high art and mass culture. This exhibition is accompanied by a unique takeover of the HG Gallery Store offering a selection of exclusive products and memorabilia devoted to Andy Warhol. There will also be special events and a brief introduction of Andy Warhol's journey.

Andy Warhol at HG Art Gallery

II.

Exhibition: Poesia Brossa
Artist: Joan Brossa
Venue: MACBA Barcelona
Dates: until February 25th, 2017

Joan Brossa (Barcelona, 1919-1998) was first and foremost a poet, but we believe it is necessary to see this in relation to his way of working, his poiesis. This exhibition establishes a dialogue and confronts Brossa’s work with the artists Marcel Marien, Nicanor Parra and Ian Hamilton-Finlay. Brossa was a poet, but his works stood at a crossroad of languages. Frequently collaborating with other artists, musicians, filmmakers, dancers, comedians and even magicians, his work constantly went against the grain and beyond the limits between disciplines. Brossa developed his artistic practice in the 1940s in a social-political context marked by Franco’s dictatorship and in a cultural milieu characterised by the absence of avant-garde and innovative proposals. From the beginning, Brossa’s work was one of aesthetic renewal, based on literary and artistic research. Up until his death, his extensive production never ceased to develop new forms of expression and ways of experimenting with different media.

Joan Brossa at MACBA Barcelona

III.

Exhibition: Dream or reality, the world of Giorgio de Chirico
Artist: Giorgio de Chirico
Venue: Caixa Forum
Dates: until October 22nd , 2017

This exhibition, organized with the collaboration of Fondazione Giorgio and Isa de Chirico, reveals the creative phases of Giorgio de Chirico with the evolution of its manifestations, from the personal transformation of classical art into its piazzas, the mythological world or the figure of the Gladiator in the recitation of death, to portraits and interior landscapes, along with the role of nature. It is structured around six thematic sections based on the main phases of the work of the great artist, characterized by an incessant investigation in different planes: the technical, the aesthetic and the artistic idea.

Giorgio de Chirico at Caixa Forum

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Barcelona Art Guide - September

I. 
Exhibition title: "Bei mir geht es in den Keller hoch”
Artist: David Ostrowsky
Venue: Blueproject Foundation, Sala project, Barcelona
Dates: Until October 1st

The Blueproject Foundation presents “Bei mir geht es in den Keller hoch”, the first personal exhibition of the artist David Ostrowski in Spain that can be seen in the Sala Project until October 1st, 2017. The exhibition allows the visitors to discover the pictorial work of the artist, presenting a selection of paintings, as well as a large installation that will occupy the center of the Sala Project. 

II.
Exhibition title: Every blind wondering ends in a circle
Artist: José Dávila
Venue: Blueproject Foundation,  Il Solotto, Barcelona
Dates: Until September 29

The exhibition, which can be seen in Il Salotto until October 29th, 2017, presents four sculptures from the series Joint Effort, a group of works in which the artist reflects on the attraction and tension between the materials, emphasizing, in this case, the relationship of transparency and opacity between them. 

III.
Exhibition title: Andy Warhol, mechanical art
Artist: Andy Warhol
venue: Caixa forum, Barcelona
Dates: 14 September to 31 December 

The show underscores the way in which Andy Warhol (Pittsburgh, 1928 – New York, 1987) captures the commodity cult of nineteenth-century industrial inventions. Always attentive to the technical and industrial advance, Warhol used all kinds of techniques and machines, from the silkscreen to the video recorder, with productive patterns that he himself defined as “typical of an assembly line.” 

Barcelona Art Guide - July

The top Gallery and Museum shows that you don't want to miss during the month of July if you are visiting Barcelona. 

I.
Exhibition title: Dream or reality. The world of Giorgio de Chirico
Artist: Giorgio de Chirico
Venue: Caixa Forum
Dates: 19 July - 22 October, 2017


This exhibition, organized with the collaboration of Fondazione Giorgio and Isa de Chirico, reveals the creative phases of Giorgio de Chirico with the evolution of its manifestations, from the personal transformation of classical art into its piazzas, the mythological world or the figure of the Gladiator in the recitation of death, to portraits and interior landscapes, along with the role of nature.

II.
Exhibition title: Björk-Digital
Artist: Björk
Venue: CCCB
Dates: Until 24 September, 2017


Björk-Digital is an immersive virtual reality exhibition featuring digital and video works from the collaboration of this iconic Icelandic artist and some of the best visual programmers and artists in the world. The exhibition, which reaches the CCCB after its passage through Tokyo, Sydney, Montreal, Reykjavik, London and Los Angeles is a unique opportunity to visit the exhibition in our country. 

III.
Exhibition title: Weegee by Weegee
Artist: Weegee
Venue: Fundació Foto Colectania
Dates: Until 5 November, 2017

The exhibition brings together over one hundred vintage photographs from one of the best photographic collections in the world, M. + M. Auer of Switzerland, in a carefully vertebrated selection from the books of Weegee and other publications in the press. 

Barcelona Art Guide - June

The top Gallery and Museum shows that you don't want to miss this Spring if you are visiting Barcelona.

I.
Exhibition title: Retrospective
Artist: Duane Michals
Venue: Casa Garriga i Nogués│Fundació Mapfre
Dates: Until 10 September 2017


The retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of the US photographer, Duane Michals runs until 10 September. The itinerary of the exhibition is distributed in successive stages, that show the different, gradually invented ways of expression of the photographer, along with the varying series made on specific subjects over time.

II.
Exhibition title: WS & CSSC, Drawings and Paintings
Artist: Paul McCarthy
Venue: Fundació Gaspar
Dates: Until 16 July 2017

InWS & CSSC, Painting and Drawings, McCarthy presents his paintings and drawings exploring his two main in-progress projects within his multidisciplinary practice: White Snow and Stagecoach. Within these works, McCarthy masterfully mixes the history of painting with contemporary motifs in dramatic scenes that expose latent desire and exploit the uncomfortable space where childhood innocence meets adult knowledge.

III.
Exhibition title: International Airport
Artist: Group show including José Benítez, Andrew Bush, César Delgado, Evol, Gerard Fernández Rico, Pablo Genovés, Joy, Mark Laita, Mr. Brainwash, Gerard Mas, Alejandro Monge, Erwin Olaf, Lluis Roig, Samuel Salcedo, Ramon Surinyac, Loes Van Delft.
Venue: Galeria 3 Punts
Dates: until 10 July 2017


INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT is a group exhibition made of a selection of paintings and sculptures by young mid-career living artists with an international reputation and projection. The confluence of a diversity of visual languages constitutes a globalized and updated version of our culture, a melting pot enriched and nourished by exchange, collaboration and inherent human curiosity.