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  • Drawing Versailles. Charles Le Brun (1619-1690). CaixaForum Barcelona
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    Drawing Versailles. Charles Le Brun (1619-1690). CaixaForum Barcelona

    Three and a half centuries after they were produced, the great decorations made for the Palace of Versailles have lost none of their fascination. Drawing Versailles explores how these decorations were applied from the sketches and drawings created by...

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  • I Speak, Knowing It’s Not about Speaking . CaixaForum Barcelona
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    I Speak, Knowing It’s Not about Speaking . CaixaForum Barcelona

    Do we perhaps depend too much on one type of language, on one same system for representation and communication that is predominantly narrative? That is the question that the curator and art critic Juan Canela takes as the starting-point for the exhib...

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  • The Louvre’s collections, the masterpieces from the Phillips Collection, Philippe Halsman’s photographs and the Ming Dynasty will coexist at CaixaForum Barcelona during the 2015-2016 season
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    The Louvre’s collections, the masterpieces from the Phillips Collection, Philippe Halsman’s photographs and the Ming Dynasty will coexist at CaixaForum Barcelona during the 2015-2016 season

    ”la Caixa” Foundation presents its program for its social and cultural centre in Barcelona for the 2015-2016 season, marked by a global cultural offering designed for audiences of all ages.

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  • ”la Caixa” Banking Foundation and the British Museum sign an agreement for the joint organisation of exhibitions
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    ”la Caixa” Banking Foundation and the British Museum sign an agreement for the joint organisation of exhibitions

    Elisa Durán, Deputy General Director of "la Caixa" Banking Foundation, and Sir Richard Lambert, Chairman of the Trustees of the British Museum, have signed an agreement to cooperate in the organisation of four extraordinary exhibitions to be shown in...

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  • Alvar Aalto 1898-1976. Organic Architecture, Art and Design.CaixaForum Barcelona
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    Alvar Aalto 1898-1976. Organic Architecture, Art and Design.CaixaForum Barcelona

    Alvar Aalto (1898–1976), who was called the "Magus of the North" by the architectural critic Sigfried Giedion, is the best known Finnish architects of his generation and one of the chief proponents of a human-centred modernism. His buildings such as ...

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  • Three Narratives. Participation. Memory. ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art. CaixaForum Barcelona
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    Three Narratives. Participation. Memory. ”la Caixa” Collection of Contemporary Art. CaixaForum Barcelona

    Can we explain and classify contemporary art through a single chronological narrative, as has been done with all previous art? Would it not it be more appropriate to propose a simultaneity of discourses that allow us to approach creativity today from...

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  • Moche Art from Ancient Peru. Gold, Myths and Rituals. CaixaForum Barcelona
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    Moche Art from Ancient Peru. Gold, Myths and Rituals. CaixaForum Barcelona

    Between the years 200 and 850 AD, a series of chiefdoms and kingdoms of great cultural complexity emerged in the valleys and deserts of what is now the northern coastline of Peru.

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  • Pixar: 25 Years of Animation. CaixaForum Barcelona
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    Pixar: 25 Years of Animation. CaixaForum Barcelona

    "The art challenges the technology. Technology inspires the art." That is how John Lasseter, Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios, sums up the spirit of the US company that marked a turning-point in the film world with its innovations in...

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  • The most important thing. Portraits of an escape. CaixaForum Barcelona
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    The most important thing. Portraits of an escape. CaixaForum Barcelona

    What is the one thing that is most important for you and that you would take if you suddenly had to flee from your home and your country? Although it may seem an unthinkable dilemma, that is the question that thousands of people are forced to answer ...

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