Exhibitions

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30.09.03

Exhibition: From modernism to the avant-garde. Drawings from the Francisco Godia Foundation collection

To open a Montmartre-style cabaret in Barcelona. That was the aim with which Els Quatre Gats bar opened its doors on 12 June, 1887 on the ground floor of a neogothic building designed by Josep Puig i Cadalfach. Managed by Pere Romeu, former ...
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Madrid 23.09.03

Exhibition: Nubia. Kingdoms of the Nile in Sudan

The Greeks called their inhabitants Ethiops, the "burnt-faces". Herodotus described the population as the world's most slender, handsome and even-tempered, and their archers as strong and skilful. It is no coincidence that the region was known as ...
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Barcelona 18.09.03

Exhibition: Henri Cartier-Bresson. Retrospective

"Photography a matter of putting your brain, your eye and your heart in the same line of sight." Henri Cartier-Bresson (Chenteloup, France, 1908) left an indelible, highly personal mark on the world of photography. Blessed with a subtle, intelligent ...
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Barcelona 18.09.03

Exhibition: Cartier-Bresson’s choice

"I've selected the shots that stimulate, please or move me. Photographers with a commitment, poets, geometricians or simply talented observers. The list is long, and it would take several exhibitions to show them all," Henri Cartier-Bresson thus ...
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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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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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