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Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona is a huge white mass of a building, designed by Richard Meier, which combines elements of contemporary American architecture with the Mediterranean rationalist tradition. It opened to the public in 1995, showing a permanent collection donated by Catalonia's other great artistic institutions, made up of work produced over the last 50 years. The museum organizes regular temporary exhibitions featuring contemporary Spanish and foreign artists as well as lectures, concerts, seminars and audiovisual competitions.
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John Baldessari. Pure BeautyFeb 11th, 2009 to Apr 25th, 2010
11:00AM
This exhibition is the biggest retrospective mounted in Spain of the work of John Baldessari (1931), one of the most notable and influential American artists. It contains over 130 works, some of them little known, and reviews the main concerns of this legendary artist who lives and works in Santa Monica (California) and has recently been awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale (2009). With humour and irony, his work dissects the ideas behind artistic practice and questions the accepted historical rules for making art. Fascinated by language and its meaning, he has never lost his interest in the relation between the visual and words. The combination of film, photography and painting is also a key element in his art. The exhibition opens with the early paintings that survived the Cremation Project (in 1970 he burnt all his work earlier than 1966, an action with which he wanted to celebrate his death as a painter, and from the ashes, kept in an urn in the form of a book, the Cremation Project emerged, a symbol of his artistic rebirth), followed by his photography-and-text works, including the combined photographs he took in the eighties from the extensive use of archive images from old films, the irregular, painted over works of the nineties and video. The exhibition concludes with his most recent works.
Modernologies
Sep 23rd, 2009 to Jan 17th, 2010
11:00AM
Contemporary artists researching modernity and modernism. Works will be on display by artists such as Armando Andrade Tudela, Anna Artaker, Alice Creischer / Andreas Siekmann, Domènec, Katja Eydel, Ângela Ferreira, Andrea Fraser, Isa Genzken, Dan Graham and Robin Hurst, Tom Holert / Claudia Honecker, Marine Hugonnier, IRWIN, Runa Islam, Klub Zwei (Simone Bader / Jo Schmeiser), John Knight, Labor k3000 (Peter Spillmann / Michael Vögeli / Marion von Osten), Louise Lawler, David Maljkovic, Dorit Margreiter, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gustav Metzger, Christian Philipp Müller, Henrik Olesen, Paulina Olowsa, Falke Pisano, Mathias Poledna, Florian Pumhösl, Martha Rosler, Stephen Willats and Christopher Williams.
John Cage, Una Retrospectiva
Oct 23rd, 2009 to Jan 4th, 2010
John Cage, Una Retrospectiva - John Cage, a retrospective is all about the man who moulded modern music. The exhibition traces the way Cage created a new path for artists after the war. Documentaries, films, photographs, and music scores will be presented to the public with the help of other artists, giving an insight into his innovations.
Ray Johnson. Please Add to & Return
Nov 6th, 2009 to Jan 10th, 2010
11:00AM
The North American artist Ray Johnson (Detroit, 1927 New York, 1995) is one of the most unknown yet most influential artists of his generation. This exhibition, the first to be dedicated to the artist in Spain, presents a retrospective of his collages and mailings. The exhibitions Ray Johnson. Please Add to & Return and John Cage and Experimental Art. The Anarchy of Silence are simultaneously on view at the MACBA, affording an opportunity to explore the relations between both artists. In the case of Ray Johnson, frequent reference is made to the figure and work of John Cage. His work reflects an in-depth interest in the idea of chance applied to the artistic approach developed by Cage.
The Malady of Writing. A project on text and speculative imagination
Nov 20th, 2009 to Mar 7th, 2010
11:00AM
The Malady of Writing brings together the proposals of some fifteen artists, such as Will Holder (United Kingdom), Falke Pisano (The Netherlands), Seth Price (USA) and the Bernardette Corporation collective, whose works reflect upon the narrative form understood as an artistic production strategy. The exhibition is presented as an "imaginative space for mere conjecture", paraphrasing the artist, writer, editor and designer Will Holder, founder of the magazine DotDotDot. And hence the subtitle: A Project on Text and Speculative Imagination. The artists show us how the analysis of the very form of the text and its narrative hides an opportunity to emphasise the need to strengthen the speculative imagination.
Rodney Graham. Through the Forest
Jan 29th, 2010 to May 18th, 2010
11:00AM
This exhibition brings together a hundred or so works by the Canadian artist Rodney Graham done between 1978 and 2008 and taken from public and private collections in Europe and North America. Graham uses different supports (books, video, sculpture, device-machines, painting, photography, installation, printed material and music) to produce works that defy authority and some key concepts of the history of contemporary art, and play with perception.
Armando Andrade Tudela
Mar 5th, 2010 to Jun 6th, 2010
11:00AM
Behind each addict there is a story to be told. That is the slogan of the Synanon Foundation, created in 1958 by Chuck Dederich, a former member of Alcoholics Anonymous, in Santa Monica (California). This is a pioneering institution in the treatment of addiction. A residence without doctors devoted to self-help. The name is a garbled mixture of 'symposium' and 'seminar', a project in tune with the utopian spirit that inspired a good part of the 1960s and which the Peruvian artist living in Berlin Armando Andrade Tudela (Lima, 1975) uses as a starting point for his new film.
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