The Backpackers Hostel Blog

Thu 26 Jun – Sun 21 Sep

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Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya (Parc de Montjuïc) Buy tickets

Tue – Sat: 10 am to 7pm
Sun and public holidays: 10am – 2:30pm
Monday: Closed, except public holidays
Closed: January 1st, May 1st and December 25th
Free entrance: First Sunday of each month

Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia, organized by Tate Modern, London, will be bringing to Barcelona almost 300 works presenting the main themes explored by these artists during their Dadaist experience. The exhibition will present paintings, objects (among them Duchamp’s famous ready mades), photographs and films that reflect the universe shared by these three artists.

“Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray and Francis Picabia were at the cutting edge of art in the first half of the twentieth century, and made a lasting impression on modern and contemporary art. Duchamp invented the concept of the ‘readymade’: presenting an everyday object as an artwork, Man Ray pioneered avant-garde photographic and film techniques and Picabia’s use of kitsch, popular or low-brow imagery in his paintings undermined artistic conventions.

Their shared outlook on life and art, with a taste for jokes, irony and the erotic, forged a friendship that provided support and inspiration. At the heart of the Dada movement and moving in the same artistic circles, they discussed ideas and collaborated, echoing and responding to each other’s works. Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia explores their affinities and parallels, uncovering a shared approach to questioning the nature of art.”

(Taken from www.mnac.es and www.tate.org.uk)

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(1) Marcel Duchamp. Young Man and Girl in Spring, 1911. Collection The Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art © Succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008

(2) Francis Picabia. Daughter Born without Mother, 1916-17. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2008

(3) Man Ray. Interior (Still Life and Room) 1918. Tokyo Fuji Art Museum © Man Ray Trust / ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London

6 Jun – 28 Sep

Francesc Torres “Accident 1977

At MACBA (Plaça dels Angels, 1) 7,5 € Buy tickets

Weekdays: 11am to 7:30pm
Sat: 10am to 8pm
Sun and holidays: 10am to 3pm
Tues: Closed (except holidays), Dec 25th and Jan 1st

The exhibition reveals to us an artist concerned with image, close to the painter. Torres emerges as a painter of history through the constant themes of his vocabulary: the machine, speed that erases the landscape, and the prehistoric figure. Together with the images, through associations of objects.

Torres synthesizes the vocabulary he has put into play in the installations and sculptural works. We are faced with the logic of the collage and the alteration of the media image, which comes from publications, television or cinema. A quotidian landscape of violence and destruction, as in the case of Newsweek Series (1990).

We are presented with an artist deeply concerned with the physical qualities of the works: the tonalities of color, the methods of constitution of the image, and the material links with certain artistic traditions. A series of ink drawings from 2007, The 1930s and 40s in the Air, explores the particular iconography of the fighter planes and the typologies of these machines. The drawings remind us of passages of previous works and return us to a world linked to childhood, where the fascination with speed and battle are explained by innocence. (Taken from www.macba.es)

Sat 7 – Sun 15 Jun

11am Mon-Wed; 12h Thu-Fri / 12:00h Semifinals (Sat) & Final (Sun)
At David Lloyd Club Turó (Av. Diagonal 673-685)
Mon-Fri 8€, Sat 15€ (Semifinals), Sun 20€ (Finals), Week Pass 40€, Weekend Pass 30 Buy tickets

Barcelona is to once again play host to Spain’s most important woman’s tennis tournament, Barcelona KIA 2008. Directed by José Luis Rivera, and with Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario as Director of Sport, Barcelona KIA continues on its path to consolidation. The tournament has recently received a considerable boost with the rise of the elite WTA circuit, which has been a major stepping stone, combined with the tournament’s move to the new venue at the David Lloyd Club Turó. (Taken from http://www.bcnwta.com)

Sun 20 Jul

8pm at Poble Espanyol 36 – 48€ Buy tickets

Loreena McKennitt, is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist and pianist most famous for writing, recording and performing world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes.

McKennitt’s music has generally been classified as World / New Age / Celtic music even though it contains aspects and characteristics of music from around the globe and is sometimes classified as Folk music in record stores.

(Taken from www.musicheadquarter.de and www.wikipedia.org)

Thu 10 to Sun 13 Jul

At Fira Barcelona Montjüic 1 Rally Packs

There’s not much time to go until the Barcelona Harley Days®, the official European festival celebrating the 105th anniversary of Harley-Davidson, as well as 25 years of H.O.G® (Harley Owners Group®). For the first time, from 10 to 13 July 2008, the Avenida María Cristina in the centre of Barcelona will be the setting for a unique festival with concerts, shows and lots of events. (Taken from http://www.barcelonaharleydays.com)

Festival Activities

• HARLEY® VILLAGE
• DAYTIME ACTIVITIES
• GUIDED TOURS WITH HARLEY® BUELL®
• CUSTOM BIKE SHOW
• CONCERTS
• FLAG PARADE
• FOOD AND DRINK

Thu 19, Fri 20, Sat 21 Jun

Program at CCCB – MACBA - SANTA MÒNICA - FIRA GRAN VIA - L’AUDITORI - PALAU DE LA MUSICA CATALANA Ticket info Buy tickets

Sónar is a three-day annual music festival held in Barcelona. It is described as a festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art (Concerts, Dj´s, SonarCinema, SonarMática, Sonarama, Conferences and Panels, Profesional and Editorial Fair).

‘Three days and three nights in touch with the most up-to-date developments and featuring the most relevant national and international artists.’

‘Sónar is the essential meeting point for an alert public, cutting-edge artists and the most influential professionals from the sectors of music and modern arts.’ (Taken from www.sonar.es and www.wikipedia.org)

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Until Sun 8 Jun

Mon-Sun from 10am to 8pm (Sat until 10pm) at CaixaForum (Av. Marquès de Comillas, 6). Free Admission

Jonathan Meese is a German painter and sculptor. He explores the idea of “carnival” through themes such as euphoria, collective chaos and wearing costumes to disconnect from reality.

Paintings, sculptures, text and a video performance titled Dracula’s Loly hot like El Dorado – cold all come together to create an atmosphere of fleeting freedom, like carnivals themselves. (Taken from www.cfa-berlin.com and http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es).

Until Sun 7 Sep

New York, 1989. © Bruce Gilden / Magnum Photos

From Tue – Sun from 11am to 8pm / Thu 11 am to 10pm / Mondays Closed at Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (Montalegre 5) 4,4€ Buy tickets at CCCB ticket offices

Ten photographers from Magnum Photos evoke the influence of the cinema on their imaginary. The exhibition has invited photographers representing different generations and trends of documentary photography to each produce an original work, showing how the cinema can infiltrate their way of capturing reality. The resulting pieces, photographs or audiovisual installations, reveal how a filmmaker, a film or a single shot have left an imprint on their imaginary and their body of work. Transition, infiltration and superposition between the two worlds.

The ten photographers and the filmmakers or works that have inspired them are: · Abbas / Paisà (1946) by Roberto Rossellini · Antoine D’Agata · Bruce Gilden / American film noir · Harry Gruyaert / Michelangelo Antonioni · Gueorgui Pinkhassov / Andrei Tarkovsky · Gilles Peress / Repérages, by Alain Resnais · Mark Power / Camera Buff (1979) by Krzysztof Kieslowski · Alec Soth / Kings of the Road (Im Lauf der Zeit, 1976) by Wim Wenders · Donovan Wylie / Elephant (1989) by Alan Clarke · Patrick Zachmann / The cinema of Shanghai in the 1930′s. (Taken from http://www.cccb.org).

As an international specialist trade fair for Street and Urban Wear, BREAD & BUTTER BARCELONA represents a marketing and communication platform for brands, labels and designers from the areas of Denim, Sportswear, Street Fashion, Function Wear and Casual Dressed Up, as well as for suppliers from the preliminary stage of the textile industry.

All the brands, all the essential information, clearly arranged and compact in the BREAD & BUTTER Brand Bible Online! (Taken from http://www.breadandbutter.com).

Fri 11 Jul

9pm at Sala Razzmatazz (Almogavers, 122) 25 – 30€ Buy tickets

Duffy, is a British singer-songwriter. In 2003 and was invited to appear on Wawffactor, a Welsh television show similar to Pop Idol on local station S4C. She was expected to win, but came second to winner Lisa Pedrig.

She recorded a three-song-EP in Welsh in 2004 and also appeared on two tracks on the album See You in the Morning by Mint Royale. Owen Powell of Catatonia and Richard Parfitt of Newport band 60ft Dolls, introduced Duffy in August 2004 to former Public Image Ltd. member turned music manager and part-owner of Rough Trade Records, Jeanette Lee. Lee moved Duffy to Crouch End in London, and orchestrated a meeting between Duffy and Suede’s ex-guitar player Bernard Butler.

Contracted to A&M Records during 2007, together with another rising star, Adele, Duffy was the most prominent of the so-called “new Amys” (a reference to singer Amy Winehouse. On 21 April 2008 Duffy was at the top of the Pan-European Album chart for Rockferry and the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles chart for “Mercy”.  (Taken from http://www.iamduffy.com/ and www.wikipedia.org).