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Taking up a walk beautiful Montjuic and walk around for a little while is always a very rewarding activity. If you´re tired, just admire the sea views to get inspired and regain life forces. If in addition to nature, you, walker, are keen on art, you can feel doubly rewarded by the number of sites and museums able to arouse your admiration and enthusiasm.
Among them, the splendid and Mediterranean-inspired rationalist style building by Josep Lluis Sert occupied by the Fundacio Joan Miro (Parc de Montjuïc s / n).
It is here where until February 20 you can see, along with the extraordinary permanent collection of works by Miro, the exhibition Let Us Face the Future, which presents eighty-eight works by British artists from prestigious public and private collections and made between 1945 and 1968. The roster of artists includes such important and influential people in the history of modern art as Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Anthony Caro, Lucien Freud, Bridget Riley, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton. But the exhibition, which is accompanied by a very interesting lecture series, aims to go beyond the presentation of a collection of isolated pieces of a number of outstanding artists. Its goal is to draw a kind of journey through the artistic and social landscape of the United Kingdom during the construction of the Labour welfare state, defending the thesis that during this period optimal conditions for the big creative explosion that took place there were created, Particularly in London in the sixties. A real cultural revolution whose leaders, the product of the democratization of access to education and educational work of the BBC, did not belong mostly to the affluent society in the nation for the first time in history.
Hence, the title of the exhibition, Let Us Face the Future was the slogan of the Labour party in the elections of 1945 when, unexpectedly, they managed to win over the conservative party of Winston Churchill. Under its rule the British had succeeded, after much suffering, surviving the German attack and finally winning the war. This was the start of a promising new era in British society which the exhibition aims to give testimony to. A particularly appropriate testimony these days, considering how the welfare state has been gradually dismantled since the days of Margaret Thatcher and now faces the threat of their virtually disappearing when the last of their followers, the Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron, gets to implement his political program until the end.
For more details please visit: http://www.fundaciomiro-bcn.org/exposicio.php?idioma=6&exposicio=3230&titulo=Let%20Us%20Face%20the%20Future
Paul Oilzum
The exposure is great, though perhaps lacking a larger number of pop culture elements, from outside the art world, to really set this new form of life created during those years. If you rent one of the apartments in Barcelona you wouldn’t regret visiting it.?
