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Barcelona Art Guide - October

Barcelona Art Guide - October

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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

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

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

Giorgio de Chirico at Caixa Forum

Barcelona Art Guide - September

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. 

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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. 

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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.” 

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Barcelona Art Guide - July

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.