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Barcelona 17.06.11

Pierre Huyghe. Streamside Day – One Year Celebration. Contemporary Art Collection ”la Caixa” Foundation. CaixaForum Barcelona

“I was not interested in filming the reality as it was given. And I’m not interested in building fiction. What I am interested in is setting up a reality, building a situation, constructing a world, and documenting it." In his work, Pierre Huyghe ...
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Madrid 24.05.11

Building the Revolution. Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935. CaixaForum Madrid

The Soviet State that emerged from the 1917 Russian Revolution fostered a new visual language aimed at building a new society based on the socialist ideal. The decade and a half that followed the Revolution was a period of intense activity and ...
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Barcelona 17.05.11

The Cinema Effect. Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image. Dream. CaixaForum Barcelona

The cinema is everywhere nowadays: on television, on computers, on mobile phones, etc. And the cinematic language has become crucial to understanding contemporary art and culture. Now, "la Caixa" Foundation presents a new exhibition which explores ...
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Girona 04.05.11

Gold Fever. Scenes from the Lives of the New Bourgeoisie. CaixaForum Girona

"The banker's overflowing coffers, no doubt, released gold dust, which entered the apartment, the spirits, gilding everything: thoughts, memories, desires." In his novel La Febre d'Or [Gold Fever], Narcís Oller (Valls, 1846 - Barcelona, 1930) ...
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Barcelona 31.03.11

Teotihuacan. City of the Gods. CaixaForum Barcelona

For eight hundred years (from the 2nd century BC to the 7th AD), Teotihuacan was the cultural, political and religious centre of a powerful civilisation. Lying 45 kilometres from Mexico City, the city, which rose to become the sixth-largest in the ...
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Barcelona 15.03.11

Omer Fast. Video Installations: The Casting and Nostalgia. Contemporary Art Collection. CaixaForum Barcelona

"I don't deal directly with reality, but with representations and stories." In his work, Omer Fast (Israel, 1972), one of the most outstanding video artists of recent years, explores the authenticity behind stories that are told by "documentalising" ...
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Madrid 03.03.11

A Floating World. Photographs by Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986). CaixaForum Madrid

"To be a photographer is to trap one's own amazement". Throughout his life, Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894-1986) was faithful to the constant quest of doing just this. From his early childhood, he photographed everything that moved him, touched him in ...
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Notas de prensa
Barcelona 03.02.11

Building the Revolution. Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-1935. CaixaForum Barcelona

The Soviet State that emerged from the 1917 Russian Revolution fostered a new visual language aimed at building a new society based on the socialist ideal. The decade and a half that followed the Revolution was a period of intense activity and ...
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Notas de prensa
Madrid 27.01.11

The Cinema Effect. Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image. Realism. CaixaForum Madrid

The cinema is everywhere nowadays: on television, on computers, on mobile phones, etc. And the cinematic language has become crucial to understanding contemporary art and culture. "la Caixa" Social Outreach Programmes presents a new exhibition ...
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