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Sat 21 Jun

6:30pm to 9:30pm at La Pedrera (Pg Gràcia, 92) Free admission

(Taken from www.fundaciocaixacatalunya.org)

From Tue 17 Jun to Sun 14 Sep 2008

Japanese Prints of the 18th and 19th Centuries, Bibliothèque Nationale de France

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753?-1806)
Takashima Ohisa - Towards 1793
Bibliothèque nationale de France, París

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Mon – Fri from 10am – 8pm at La Pedrera (Pg Gràcia, 92) Free admission

The exhibition includes more than one hundred prints from the BNF’s Département des Estampes collection by such representative authors as Harunobu, Kiyonaga, Utamaro, Hokusai or Hiroshige, and is divided into five thematic sections: theatre, female beauty, parody, eroticism and landscape.

The ukiyo-e are xylographs made in Japan between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that began to reach Europe during the first decade of 1860, as a result of the trade and cultural exchanges following more than two centuries of isolation and protectionism in Japan. These works captivated French collectors and artists, immersed in an anti-academia mood and the spirit of experimentation of the prevailing impressionism and symbolism in Europe.

Theatre and sumo, female beauty, parody, eroticism, flora and fauna and the landscape are some of the subjects, a reflection of the ephemeral worldly life in contrast with the immutable and sacred world. Whether in the eighteenth century with Harunobu and Utamaro, or in the nineteenth with Hokusai or Hiroshige, the Japanese world takes on the appearance of a frail and highly exquisite spectacle. (Taken from www.fundaciocaixacatalunya.org)

Fri 27 Jun to Sat 26 Jul

9pm at La Pedrera (Passeig de Gracia, 92) 12€ Buy tickets

Program

Fri 27 & Sat 28 June – Marc Ayza

Fri 4 & Sat 5 July – Andreu Zaragoza Quartet

Fri 11 & Sat 12 July – Five in Orbit

Fri 18 & Sat 19 July – Horacio Fumero Trio

Fri 25 & Sat 26 July – Oliver Nelson Project

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Fri 27 Jun

9:30pm at Palau Sant Jordi (Pg. Olímpic, 5-7) 36 – 45€ Buy tickets

TOKIO HOTEL are Bill Kaulitz (vocals) & Tom Kaulitz (guitar), Georg Listing (bass) and Gustav Schafer (drums), and their story reads like the script for a blockbuster movie…

‘… A band from a town in East Germany become the biggest stars of the past 20 years in their native country, charting records at No. 1, playing to ten or 20 thousand each night and being feted with every German industry award. Before long, the four musicians are traveling farther afield, and demand is growing fast – not just from an increasingly manic fan base, but from the mass media too. Tokio Fever rages out of control…’

Since signing with Universal in May 2005, TH have sold approaching three million records & DVDs in Germany alone, making them the country’s most successful band, with a host of domestic awards jostling for space in the collective cabinet (nine platinum/four gold, at last count, plus an additional four platinum awards for sales in Austria & Switzerland). And they played the most successful debut live tour EVER to grace German stages. (Taken from http://tokiohotel-uskith.nireblog.com and http://www.tokiohotel.com)