“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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) ...

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 ...

"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" ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Although the decrease is not sufficient, the first therapeutic vaccine, designed from the dendritic cells of the actual patient by the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona-IDIBAPS has achieved a significant response in the majority of patients. The ...