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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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Notas de prensa
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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Notas de prensa
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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Notas de prensa
Barcelona 19.05.04

Installation: Public Absence

As a way of hooking people, a large window. Behind it, a mysterious show. In front of it, an astounded audience. Using these ingredients, Javier Peñafiel (Zaragoza, 1964) presents in CaixaForum's auditorium Public Absence, an installation piece that ...
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Barcelona 18.05.04

Exhibition: Total fear

Fear of otherness, but also of oneself. Situations of psychosis, panic and anguish repeated day after day. Wars of mass destruction and terrorist massacres, yet also mental imbalance and split personalities. We live immersed in a geography of fear' ...
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Madrid 10.05.04

”la Caixa” marks its centenary by laying the first stone of CaixaForum Madrid

Today, the Mayor of Madrid, Alberto Ruiz Gallardón, the President of the Autonomous Community of Madrid, Esperanza Aguirre, and the Chairman of "la Caixa" Ricardo Fornesa will preside over a foundation stone-laying ceremony for CaixaForum Madrid, ...
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