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Tarragona 16.09.03

Exhibition: Engraving masters of the British Museum Collection (15th-20th c.)

Printing with woodcuts was invented in 9th century China, and became established practice in Europe at the outset of the 15th. Artists such as Dürer, Rafael, Rubens, Rembrandt, Goya, Matisse and Picasso turned engravings into true works of art. To ...
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10.09.03

Pau Casals on the art scene. The Villa Casals Collection

"I'll donate all of this the music mementoes, paintings and papers at Sant Salvador to my country," the exiled Pau Casals once declared. The place he was referring to was Villa Casals, the house the musician had built on the Sant Salvador ...
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18.06.03

Exhibition: Seu Vella. Splendour rediscovered

Eight hundred years ago, on 22 July, 1203, a solemn ceremony was held to lay the cornerstone of what Josep Gudiol i Cunill described as the "richest and most lavish works in Catalonia": the Seu Vella Old Cathedral of Lleida. Over this time span, ...
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Barcelona 17.06.03

Exhibition: Interior luxury

Surgical steel, the rubber of a baby's pacifier, bar codes, multicoloured papers, plastic, stitches of crochet, coal... Many 21st century artists have found an open field for experimentation in jewellery. This goes beyond mere materials to include ...
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Barcelona 25.04.03

Young performers fill CaixaForum with music at ”la Caixa” Foundation’s XXVI Festival of Early Music

A new edition of "la Caixa" Foundation's Festival of Early Music is with us again, bringing a timetable of concerts and activities which will fill Barcelona with major figures in the sphere of performance based on historical research and played on ...
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Girona 22.04.03

Exhibition: Transvisual Girona

Playing tic-tac-toe with a robot, taking drum lessons on-line, exploring an Egyptian tomb with a virtual reality helmet or learning how to make a comic strip are just a few of the many proposals of Transvisual Girona, an interactive play exhibition ...
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Barcelona 15.04.03

Visual Arts: 19th century photography in Spain

"Our busy century doesn't always have time to read, but it does have time to see," said Theóphile Gautier in 1858. Two decades beforehand, the first photographic procedure (the daguerreotype) had swept through Europe, and with it the figure of the ...
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15.04.03

Visual Arts: Designers for a legend. Tribute to Toulouse-Lautrec

Poster enthusiast that he was, throughout his career Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) received commissions from most all Parisian cabarets. He designed his first poster in 1891 for the Moulin Rouge. From then on, accompanied by an ever-present Japanese ...
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Zaragoza 11.04.03

Exhibition: The Roman Theatre. Staging the Performance

Tragedies like Seneca's Phaedra and Medea or comedies like Plautus's Aulularia are alive even today. Classic works of dramatic art, they continue to be performed in theatres the world over, enabling us to see how people lived and felt two thousand ...
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