Culture
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Madrid 10.02.09
Risk Zones. ”la Caixa” Foundation Contemporary Art Collection
How does art see the conflicts that are marking our existence in an ever more uncertain and unpredictable world? In what ways are artists and their works affected by the current unsettling scenario, dominated as it is by violence, inequality, social ...Read more -
Madrid 04.02.09
Barceló’s sea in the Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations Room of the UN in Geneva
A singular, unique work in contemporary art. An ambitious and complex intervention on a colossal canvas measuring a thousand square metres, with a result of captivating beauty that seizes spectators and transports them to a sea that emerges with ...Read more -
Madrid 13.11.08
The Yi School: Thirty Years of Chinese Abstract Art
The extraordinary development of the People's Republic of China in recent years and the opening of new pathways of communication and business with the West have stimulated the world's interest in Chinese culture. A series of major international ...Read more -
Madrid 02.06.05
Exhibition: A Subtle Line: Shoji Ueda 1913-2000
Are, bure and boke (grainy, blurred and out of focus). These were the photographs that predominated in the Japan of late 1970. Amongst that hotchpotch of gaudy images, the photos of Shoji Ueda stand out for their silence. "Young, lively and strange" ...Read more -
Barcelona 30.05.05
Exhibition: La sortie des usines
What is it that we do not see? How do we look? These are questions that Rogelio López Cuenca (Nerja, Málaga, 1959) constantly poses in his work. An explorer of icons and signs, López Cuenca bases his production on an able rereading of the images ...Read more -
Madrid 04.02.05
Exposició: Bill Viola: The Passions
Sadness, anger, pain, happiness. Down through time, many artists have faced up to the difficult task of having art capture the complexity of human emotions. Bill Viola (New York, 1951), one of the leading pioneers of video-art, faces this enduring ...Read more -
Barcelona 30.11.04
Exhibition: LI ZHENSHENG. A Chinese Photographer in the Cultural Revolution
Thirty thousand brown envelopes hidden under the floorboards of an apartment for 35 years, bound by rubber bands and ordered by period, place and type of film. Each contained a negative inside a tiny paper sachet. Written on each envelope, in ...Read more -
Barcelona 23.11.04
Instalation: The Disappearing City
Not only ahead, behind, left and right: underfoot, too. Visitors going up the escalator at CaixaForum will suddenly find themselves trapped in the centre of a desolate, peripheral landscape inhabited by mountains of rubble, wrecked cars and cranes, ...Read more