PROGRAMME MACBA 2015
XAVIER MISERACHS. BARCELONA SEPTEMBER TO JANUARY 2016
Xavier Miserachs, Festes de Gràcia, Barcelona, 1964. ‘Barcelona Blanc i Negre’ Series, c. 1964 MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation. Donated by Agrolimen © Estate of Xavier Miserachs
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Xavier Miserachs, El Born, Barcelona, 1964. ‘Barcelona Blanc i Negre’ Series, ca. 1964 MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation. Donated by Agrolimen © Estate of Xavier Miserachs
EXHIBITIONS PROGRAMME 2015 MACBA
XAVIER MISERACHS. BARCELONA Press conference: 16 September, 11.30 am Opening: 17 September, 8 pm Dates: 18 September 2015 – 10 January 2016 This exhibition completes the task of classification, catalogation and conservation of the extraordinary collection of Xavier Miserachs (Barcelona, 1937 – Badalona, 1998), deposited at MACBA in 2011. It follows the construction of a visual imaginary of the city of Barcelona through the work of the photographer. Curated by Horacio Fernández, historian of photography, essayist and publisher, and designed by the Langarita-Navarro bureau, the exhibition is centred around the three most famous works by the author: the photo-books Barcelona. Blanc i Negre, 1964, Costa Brava Show, 1966, and Los cachorros, 1967. The show pays homage to the intense relationship Miserachs had with Barcelona and his decisive influence on the construction of a photographic imaginary of the city that is still powerful today. Xavier Miserachs. Barcelona can be regarded as a model for the treatment of the photographic heritage in the age of post-photography, when the materiality and traditional status of photography have been changed forever. The exhibition will show the complexity and richness of Miserachs’ collection, kept at MACBA’s Study Center. Accompanying the exhibition will be the photo-book Miserachs. Barcelona, published jointly with Editorial RM and edited by Horacio Fernández, as well as a book of essays on the photographer.
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DESIRES AND NECESSITIES. NEW INCORPORATIONS TO THE MACBA COLLECTION JUNE TO MAY 2016
John Baldessari, Dwarf and Rhinoceros (With Large Black Shape) With Story Called Lamb, 1989 (2013). MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation. View of the installation ‘John Baldessari’ at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, 27 June – 23 August 2013 Courtesy of the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery. Photography: Ellen Page Wilson
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Gianfranco Baruchello, A Trusted Friend of Odysseus, 1969. MACBA Collection. MACBA Foundation Donated by María Entrecanales © Gianfranco Baruchello, 2015. Photography: Gasull Fotografia
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DESIRES AND NECESSITIES. NEW INCORPORATIONS TO THE MACBA COLLECTION Press conference: 16 June 11.30 am Opening: 17 June, 7.30 pm Dates: 18 June 2015 – 15 May 2016 The exhibition presents for the first time works acquired over the last three years, next to some highly relevant works from our contemporary heritage. Together they create a dense canvas with multiple versions of beauty, emotion, knowledge and pleasure. The title takes its inspiration from Lawrence Weiner’s Some Objects of Desire, the work that presides over the Atrium at MACBA 2009 and which invites us to reflect on the often-irreconcilable fragility of our relationship with material things. Curated by Bartomeu Marí, the exhibition features four generations of artists who question in their work the range of possibilities between desire – that which we wish for, independently of whether it is good or just a fact of life – and that which is necessary, without which we cannot exist and which cannot be any other way. Among the desires and necessities, we find the post-photographic condition of John Baldessari or the steep and sinuous routes of freedom and repression in the proposals of Francesc Ruiz, among others. Photography is represented by some excellent works, such as those of Jorge Ribalta and Allan Sekula. On the other side, MACBA’s interest in the creative effervescence of artists from North Africa and the Middle East, as well as in promoting a new modernity, is reflected by artists such as Walid Raad, Sigalit Landau, Ali Cherri, Iman Issa, Wael Shawky and Oussama Tabti. The exhibition includes well known works by ‘classic’ contemporary artists of the MACBA Collection such as Marcel Broodthaers, Richard Hamilton, Dieter Roth, Pablo Palazuelo, Gego and Antoni Tàpies. Also featured are emergent artists from the Catalan, such as Patricia Dauder, Iñaki Bonillas, Adrian Melis, Octavi Comeron, Daniela Ortiz and Xosé Quiroga. Finally, there is a selection of works of artists who have had temporary exhibitions at MACBA, such as Rita McBride. A new book on the MACBA Collection including an extensive selection of works will be published at the end of this year.
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SERGI AGUILAR. REVERSE /OBVERSE (1972-2015) JUNE TO JANUARY 2016
Sergi Aguilar. Ruta vermella, 2009. Photography: Pau Aguilar Amor贸s
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SERGI AGUILAR. REVERSE/OBVERSE (1972-2015) Press conference: 3 June, 11.30 am Opening: 3 June, 7.30 pm Dates: 4 June 2015 – 31 January 2016 This is retrospective exhibition traces over forty years of sculptural practice by Sergi Aguilar (Barcelona, 1946). Sergi Aguilar. Reverse/Obverse (1972–2015) is a compilation of his researches between object and process, his iron pieces and his tools, his experiments with the notions of scale and accumulation, his homages to Blinky Palermo and Giovanni Anselmo, as well as the drawings, photographs and audiovisual sequences made throughout his career. Aguilar’s work questions some of the principal paradigms that have shaped the language of sculpture in the context of Spain from the early seventies to the present. At the same time, seen from today’s perspective, his work minimises the role played by formalist interpretations. This uncomfortable stance with the historiographic narrative and its reading codes, with general genealogies and certain specific analysis, not only affects this sculptor from Barcelona but a whole generation of artists whose work has evolved beyond the attributions that were once ascribed to them.
Sergi Aguilar, Nord-Sud, 1991. Photography: Martí Gasull
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SPECIES OF SPACES Press conference: 14 July, 11.30 am Opening: 14 July, 8 pm Dates: 15 July 2015 – 31 January 2016 Curated by Frederic Montornés, independent art critic and curator, the exhibition is conceived as a spatially fragmented building according to the typology established by Georges Perec in his book Species of Spaces. The exhibition features a selection of works chosen by their capacity to refer to the areas in which we act, exist, move, think and live. That is, a series of spaces that, seen through the eyes of an artist, bring us close to the meaning they may have for us through specific productions. The exhibition should be understood as a free interpretation of a book set adrift around some corners of the public and private space, intimacy and social life, what we are and what others see in us. In other words, like human existence itself, it drifts from the minimal and limited space of a page to the impossibility of setting limits to the idea of space in general. Species of Spaces includes works by Martí Anson, Luz Broto, Gerhard Richter, Lara Almarcegui, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Serafín Álvarez, Lucio Fontana, Dora García, Robert Gober, Adrià Julià, Humberto Rivas, Marla Jacarilla, Gego, Jordi Colomer, Ignacio Uriarte, Lois Patiño, Pep Duran, Pedro G. Romero, Stanley Brouwn, Francesc Ruiz, Daniel Steegmann, Victor Burgin, Joan Colom, Ignasi Aballí, Edward Ruscha, Ester Partegàs and Gino Rubert, among others.
León Ferrari, Cidades, 1980 (2007). MACBA Collection. MACBA Consortium. Donated by the artist.
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CARLOS BUNGA Press conference: 28 October, 11.30 am Opening: 29 October, 7.30 pm Dates: 30 October 2015 to early February 2016 Resident in Barcelona since 2008, Carlos Bunga (Porto, 1976) is one of the Portuguese artists better known internationally. His work consists mostly of constructions and ephemeral architectures, made of cardboard and paint, which create contrasting spaces, inner skins in specific buildings. This is the first exhibition of the artist in the city where he now resides. Bunga’s project for the Capella dels Àngels is an attempt to establish connections between the original function of the Capella as a religious site and today’s urban context, while inviting us to reflect on the current models for cities, their validity and utility.
Carlos Bunga, Preparatory sketch for his upcoming exhibition at MACBA 2015.
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Iman Issa, Heritage Studies (view of the installation), Pérez Art Museum, Miami, 2015 Photography: STUDIO LHOOQ. Courtesy of the artist, Pérez Art Museum Miami and Rodeo (Istanbul/London)
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IMAN ISSA. HERITAGE STUDIES Press conference: 20 May, 11.30 am Opening: 20 May, 7.30 pm Dates: 21 May – 28 June Exhibition of the winner of the 1st Han Nefkens – MACBA Contemporary Art Award, curated by Bartomeu Marí. It will feature the work made courtesy of this award, and the winner of the second edition of the prize will be announced. Iman Issa lives and works in Cairo and New York. At the end of 2012 she won the 1st Han Nefkens Foundation – MACBA Contemporary Art Award. The aim of this award is to help consolidate the work of creators who, despite a consistent career, are not yet recognised by the international artistic community, and to support international contemporary creation in Barcelona. Issa’s project, which was initially designed for a public space in the city, has been transformed into an exhibition representing a new phase in her series Heritage Studies. Begun in 2015, Heritage Studies is an ongoing project that looks at works of art, objects and structures from the past, in an attempt to understand their relevance for the present and possibly for the future. It is composed of several original devices, each of them based on an existing museum object, an artwork or an element. Each device is accompanied by a legend identifying the source. Sources belong to different regions and cultural legacies, but they are all from the past, often a distant past going back thousands of years. Heritage Studies is a borrowed term implying a return to the past, yet serving some practical purpose for the present and future.
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MACBA IN THE WORLD: TOURING EXHIBITIONS AND CO-PRODUCTIONS 2015 One of MACBA’s characteristics is that most of its exhibitions and programmes are produced in collaboration with a wide network of museums and art centres, universities and international research centres, mostly in Europe and North and South America. Since its opening, MACBA’s collaborations with other museums and art centres have been increasing, with more than 100 co-productions and touring exhibitions at present, organised jointly with around 80 institutions in the world. 18
TOURING EXHIBITIONS AND CO-PRODUCTIONS PROGRAMME 2015 MACBA
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Oskar Hansen. Open Form MACBA: 10/07/2014 – 06/01/2015 Museo Serralves Porto: 29/01 – 03/05/2015
The Passion According to Carol Rama MACBA: 31/10/2014 – 22/02/2015 Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris: 03/04 – 12/07/2015 Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland: 14/10/2015 – 10/01/2016 IMMA, Dublín: 22/03/2016 – 24/07/2016 GAM, Torí: 07/10/2016 – 05/02/2017
Coproduced with Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
Exhibition conceived by the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris (MAMVP), organised by MACBA and co-produced with PARIS MUSÉES / MAMVP, EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (IMMA) and GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino.
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Xavier Ribas. Nitrate MACBA: 05/07 – 12/10/2014 The Bluecoat, Liverpool: 11/04 – 05/07/2015 Museo Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona: 09/2015 – 02/2016
Antoni Abad. megafone.net/2004-2014 MACBA: 18/02 – 24/06/2014 Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo: 01/08 – 18/10/2015
Exhibition coproced with Museo de la Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona. In collaboration with The Bluecoat, Liverpool.
Exhibition organised and produced by the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) in collaboration with Laboratorio Arte Alameda and Centro Cultural de España en Méjico, Mexico DF, Matadero Madrid, and Pinacoteca do Estado de Sao Paulo, Brasil. With the support of:
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The Beast and the Sovereign MACBA: 19/03 – 30/08/2015 Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart: 16/10/2015 – 17/01/2016
Exhibition organized and co-produced by the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and the Württembergischer Kunstverein (WKV) Stuttgart. With the support of Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
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