The Backpackers Hostel Blog

Sun 27 Apr

5pm at Palau Sant Jordi (Carrer del Foc s/n) 15 – 36€ Buy tickets

The Harlem Globetrotters is an exhibition basketball team that combines athleticism and comedy.

Created by Abe Saperstein in 1926 in Chicago, Illinois, the team adopted the name Harlem because of its connotations as a major African-American community. Over the years they have played more than 20,000 exhibition games in 118 countries.

Brother Bones’s whistled version of “Sweet Georgia Brown” is the team’s signature song. Globie has been their mascot since 1993. (Taken form www.wikipedia.org)

Until Sun 15 Jun

Mon – Fri 11 am-7:30 pm, Sat 10:30 am-3 pm, Sun and holidays 10 am-3 pm at MACBA (Plaça dels Angels, 1 -Raval). Fees vary

This monographic exhibition by Lothar Baumgarten (who lives and works in Berlin and New York) brings together a series of photographic works, with single images as well as sequences forming part of this complex presentation. While not considering itself to be a retrospective, the show includes sculpture, projection, wall drawings, books and film from the late 1960s to the present day—some of which is adapted in situ to the architectural conditions of the MACBA.

Autofocus retina is the name of this presentation, but it is also the title of a configuration consisting of four diamonds shaped mirrors connoting the inner mechanics of a camera lens, its photographic eye. As we know, without the forming frame format, each photograph would be circular. Chromatic and geometric compositions are set within the more singular places in the museum, where architectural space is understood as if it were a blank page. Imago Mundi (L’autre et L’ailleurs), (1988, 2008), a piece which transforms the museum’s glass facade into a prism and explores the pretension of photographic language to establish itself as a universal truth. (Taken from www.macba.es)

Until Sun 18 May

“Apparatus For The Osmotic Compensation Of The Pressure Of Wealth During The Contemplation Of Poverty”, 2005

Mon – Fri 11 am-7:30 pm, Sat 10:30 am-3 pm, Sun and holidays 10 am-3 pm at MACBA (Plaça dels Angels, 1 -Raval). Fees vary

Alice Creischer inspired by the extremes of poverty she say in her trip to India in 2004, created ‘Apparatus for Osmotic Compensation of the Pressure of Wealth During the Contemplation of Poverty’ that is a reconstruction of her experiences.

She examines the process by which large corporations are created and operate across the world and uses installations, texts, drawings, collages and articles to delve into the relationships between official policy, business, and culture – the source of new types of alienation and exploitation in the modern world. In a second piece, ‘The Painter’s Studio..,’ Creischer reinterprets a Gustave Courbet painting.

The “experimental method” of the images on display here repeats again and again a situation to which there is no solution. It makes out that it’s able to build an instrument: an instrument to compensate the osmotic pressure of wealth when considering poverty. We must not identify poverty with the countries that I have travelled, and wealth with Europe, as if here there were no poverty and over there no wealth. On the other hand however, among these countries there is a history of exploitation which has carried them in an unmistakable direction, and a history of projections and nostalgia for the exotic which goes the opposite way. This history is part of the person who is watching, but she shares it with those who watch her.

Alice Creischer
Text which accompanies the work Apparatus for the Osmotic Compensation of the Pressure of Wealth during the Contemplation of Poverty, 2005

(Taken from www.macba.es)