The Backpackers Hostel Blog

Thu 26 Jun – Sun 21 Sep

1

2

3

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)

_______________________

(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)