The Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) houses an important collection of artworks from the last fifty years. Besides a selection of works from the permanent collection, the museum also provides a broad programme of temporary exhibitions and organises activities related to contemporary culture and art. The building itself was designed by the American architect Richard Meier.
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- 14 May 2010 - 12 October 2010 With a Probability of Being Seen. Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Archives of an attitude
- 14 May 2010 - 15 December 2010 MACBA Collection (XXII)
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04 June 2010 - 09 January 2011
Gil J Wolman
I am immortal and alive
The French artist Gil J Wolman (1929–1995) was a pioneer in researching the intersection and alteration of visual and textual languages. This show, the first monographic exhibition of Wolman’s work ever held in Spain, consists of about 250 works and documents, from L’Anticoncept (1951) to Voir de mémoire (1995). It includes the artist’s most important and fertile pieces, some of them never before exhibited.
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11 June 2010 - 23 January 2011
Parallel Benet Rossell
This exhibition of the work of Benet Rossell (Ŕger, 1937) concentrates on two strains of this multifaceted artist’s vast production: his films and his calligraphies or micrographs. The show offers an interrupted, fragmented vision of his work, one that avoids the conventions of the chronological retrospective and provides several ways into a work constructed as an inter-crossing of languages and media.
This exhibition presents a great many works that have never been exhibited before. It also pays special attention to Benet Rossell’s cinematographic work, which is tightly linked to his signic and calligraphic drawings. In so doing, the show establishes a dialogue between the different media used in works produced from 1965 to the present. Though abstract in appearance, his work partakes of narrative.