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Barcelona 22.09.04

The Fundació ”la Caixa” inaugurates CosmoCaixa Barcelona, the new Science Museum

From the existence of elementary particles to the age of Quixote, some 13,700 million years of evolution have taken place. This is the lengthy journey that can be undertaken by visitors to CosmoCaixa Barcelona, the new, Fundació "la Caixa" Science ...
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Barcelona 13.07.04

”la Caixa” Foundation presents over 20 exhibitions previously unseen in Spain

The legendary Bauhaus parties; the paintings that Turner dedicated to Venice; the splendour of the Thracian people; August Rodin and the influence he exerted over Brancusi, Matisse, Giacometti and many others; Bill Viola's "passions"; the twenty ...
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08.07.04

Exhibition: Dalí in the Empordà. A view by Empordà photographers

"The universal can only be attained through the ultra-local": this phrase that Salvador Dalí applied to a number of Empordà citizens, such as Fages de Climent and Antoni Pitxot, could also be extrapolated to cover the eight Empordà photographers ...
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Barcelona 06.07.04

Exhibition: Doug Aitken. We’re safe as long as everything’s moving

A voice emerges from a sea of images. It has a soft, deep, hypnotic timbre. Over and over again it repeats, "You can't stop", until it fades away and leaves us alone bombarded by a constant flow of a sea of images. The voice is part of i am in you, ...
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05.07.04

The Museo de Bellas Artes and the Sala de Exposiciones del Mercado del Este will be jointly showing outstanding works from the Contemporary Art Collection of ”la Caixa” Foundation

The Contemporary Art Collection of "la Caixa" Foundation is presenting a substantial selection of works in Santander, featuring thirty-one artists from Spain and abroad and highlighting the wide range of aesthetic options represented in the ...
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Madrid 10.06.04

Exhibition: The print collection of Ferdinand Columbus (1488-1539). Collecting in the Age of Discovery

Christopher Columbus discovered America in 1492. This fact would become a symbol for the European exploration of other lands that would change the collective mindset and imagination of the Old Continent. Running parallel to this, the technological ...
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08.06.04

Exhibition: Africa, the imagined figure

A guere mask identifies and chases those guilty of crime, and can even become their executioner; the ngang or Bembe fetishists inserted relics of the deceased (fingernails or hairs) into the anus of the statuettes to instill the spirit of the dead ...
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07.06.04

Exhibition: Europe Marked the Way. The Pilgrimage to Santiago in the Middle Ages

In European history, the Way to Santiago has been one of the earliest unifying elements of the old continent. The discovery of the sepulchre of St James, the first martyred apostle, in the 9th Century proved to be a point of reference which helped ...
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Barcelona 26.05.04

Exhibition: Confucius. The advent of humanism in China

"The Master said: I would prefer not speaking!' Tsze-kung said: If you, Master, do not speak, what shall we, your disciples, have to record?' The Master said: 'Does Heaven speak? The four seasons pursue their courses, and the hundred creatures ...
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