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  • Delacroix (1798-1863)
    • Notas de prensa
    Barcelona 14.02.12

    Delacroix (1798-1863)

    "When I paint a picture, I am not writing a thought". Eugène Delacroix questioned the need for a theme in painting. According to the great French artist, what created emotion on a canvas were its artistic values ? material, light, colour ? rather tha...

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  • Impressionists. French Masters from the Clark Collection. CaixaForum Barcelona
    • Notas de prensa
    Barcelona 16.11.11

    Impressionists. French Masters from the Clark Collection. CaixaForum Barcelona

    French painting in the second half of the nineteenth century represents a crossroads in the history of art. This was a period of change and experimentation, even revolution. For many painters, the tradition of the "Grand Manner", inherited from the O...

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  • Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1909-1929. When Art dances with Music. CaixaForum Barcelona
    • Notas de prensa
    Barcelona 04.10.11

    Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, 1909-1929. When Art dances with Music. CaixaForum Barcelona

    The Ballets Russes created dances that reflected the 20th century. Its history was of an exceptional company, renown for its productions, which with a large number of innovating shows gave modernity its colour. After one hundred years, the fascinatio...

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  • CaixaForum Barcelona celebrates its tenth anniversary with cultural attractions and an outstanding exhibition programme
    • Notas de prensa
    Barcelona 07.09.11

    CaixaForum Barcelona celebrates its tenth anniversary with cultural attractions and an outstanding exhibition programme

    "la Caixa" Social and Cultural Outreach Projects presents the programme for CaixaForum Barcelona, its social and cultural centre in the city, for the 2011-2012 season. It also marks the celebration of the tenth year since it opened its doors in March...

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  • Portraits of the Belle Époque. CaixaForum Barcelona
    • Notas de prensa
    Barcelona 19.07.11

    Portraits of the Belle Époque. CaixaForum Barcelona

    The closing decades of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th were marked by enormous and far-reaching changes in the history of European painting. These changes affected both the stylistic conventions of the art of painting and the frame...

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  • Pierre Huyghe. Streamside Day – One Year Celebration. Contemporary Art Collection ”la Caixa” Foundation. CaixaForum Barcelona
    • Notas de prensa
    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 (Pa...

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  • The Cinema Effect. Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image. Dream. CaixaForum Barcelona
    • Notas de prensa
    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 th...

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  • Teotihuacan. City of the Gods. CaixaForum Barcelona
    • Notas de prensa
    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 wo...

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

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