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Permanent exhibition

April to July / 10am - 8pm (Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri & Sat) 10am - 3pm (Sun)
Jan to Mar / 10am - 6pm (Mon, Wed, Thu, Fri & Sat) 10am - 3pm (Sun)
at Edifici Fòrum (Rbla Prim, 2) Free admission

This exhibition shows the tourist’s first sensations while visiting Barcelona for the first time.  It is about the general character of Barcelona city and the people’s everyday live.  It has has audiovisuals, murals and a 50-metre skyline.  All together, is a journey around the city offering ways for visitors to interpret the emotions evoked by Barcelona. (Taken from http://w3.bcn.es)

Until Sun 13 Aug

Tue - Sun 10am to 8pm at CosmoCaixa Barcelona (C/ Teodor Roviralta, 47-51) Free admission

The photographer Jorge Camilo Valenzuela stayed seven months in the Peruvian Amazonia traveling through the rivers Manu, Tambopata, Samiria, Madre de Dios and Amazonas, photographing and recording the sounds of nature.

The exposition is divided into diverse forest environments from the sunrise until the sunset. All the photographs and recordings were carried out in natural surroundings, and free wild animals.

(Taken from www.foto-ceif.com and http://obrasocial.lacaixa.es)

Until Sun 28 Sep 2008

10am - 6pm at Casa Amatller (Passeig de Gràcia, 41) Free admission

Sea Roads brings together a selection of unpublished photographs taken by Adolf Mas and Pelai Mas in the Balearic Islands, between 1913 and 1923. They portrayed not only the most representative aspects of the civil and religious architecture of the islands, but also cities, landscapes and archaeology, as well as scenes from everyday life and folklore and examples of the rich decorative art to be found in palaces and private houses.

These images, of undeniable aesthetic but also documentary value, have come to enrich the already substantial iconographic heritage of the islands, which other historians and collectors of photography have recovered and conserved with Duch care and perseverance, bringing new elements for the preservation of our historical memory. (Taken from www.amatller.org)

Wed 4 Jun - Sun 21 Sep 2008

Wang Nanming, Calligraphic balls

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

In the 1970s and early 80s, the Chinese authorities considered abstraction as a product of bourgeois society. Nevertheless, in the last thirty years, Chinese artists have discovered an alternative kind of abstraction or modernity with Chinese roots.

The result of their efforts, which have often remained out of the limelight, can be seen at the CaixaForum exhibition Displaced Modernity: Thirty Years of Abstract Chinese Art , which includes some 80 items, among them paintings, sculptures and installations, produced by over 40 artists. (Taken from http://w3.bcn.es and www.fathom.com).

More info at Caixa Forum (just in Spanish and Catalan languages)