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Notas de prensa
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 ...
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Notas de prensa
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" ...
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Notas de prensa
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 ...
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Notas de prensa
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 ...
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Notas de prensa
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 ...
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Notas de prensa
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, ...
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Notas de prensa
Barcelona 28.10.04

Exhibition: Rodin and the Sculpture Revolution. From Camille Claudel to Giacometti

"Are cathedrals finished?" Rodin used to ask those astonished critics who condemned his work The Gates of Hell for being unfinished. Trained outside the official institutions, Rodin disconcerted the public with his endless retouching and ...
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Notas de prensa
Barcelona 30.09.04

Exhibition: Giuseppe Penone. Retrospective

Can potatoes be anthropomorphic? Can steam turn itself into puffs of air, concentric water circles into digital prints and trees into vegetable spines? The work of Giuseppe Penone (Garessio, Italy, 1947) is poetic, intimate and sensual, but also ...
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Notas de prensa
Madrid 28.09.04

Exposició: Pre-Raphaelites: The Vision of Nature

"Pre-Raphaelitism has but one principle, that of absolute, uncompromising truth in all that it does, obtained by working everything, down to the most minute detail, from nature and from nature only. Every Pre-Raphaelite landscape background is ...
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