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ONLY BE BARCELONIAN
Only-Be Barcelonian
Fantasy Film Festival in Sitges
Films can warn us about the future. They can show us what might one day be a reality. Because from past experience we know that what one human is capable of imagining the human race is often able to achieve sooner or later. Leonardo Da Vinci imagined the helicopter in 1493 and eventually it was made real. In his books Jules Verne predicted many modern inventions and discoveries: from videoconferencing and electric submarines to the moon landings. Today, cinema has taken the place of novels as the main provider of science fiction. Fantasy has been with us from the beginning of time, when myths were our foundation for understanding the world and the origin of things. Myths helped us understood the creation of the world, and they also explored how its destruction might come about. It is through myth that man came to understand his environment; and it is myth that gave a higher meaning to human existence, transcending the inevitable physical death of the body. Consider a film like The Matrix for example, which clearly refers to the universe of social networks and Internet navigation as a means of knowledge and liberation. It is unlikely that machines rule the world now, although it might be possible one day. Artificial intelligence continues to evolve while ours has come to a standstill. There is still plenty of time for our computers to rebel against us. However, The Matrix plays with levels of fiction regarding the network and its uses and users, and thus the purpose of the story is not fantasizing about Zion or the end of the universe but rather the possible fictions that the Internet...European Museum of Modern Art Barcelona
The European Museum of Contemporary Art presents the best collection of figurative art of the different disciplines inside art of the 20th and 21st century.
Enfants Club Barcelona
Enfants Club, since 1963, located on
Carrer Guàrdia 3 (next to Liceu Metro), is where you´ll be able to listen to the greatest hits of commercial pop,
Carles Taché Barcelona
Founded in 1986 by Carles Taché, it´s been constantly given awards since its beginnings by contemporary art critics.
Maeght Gallery Barcelona
One of the homes of the emblematic Maeght Gallery in Paris, located in the best area in Barcelona.
Joan Gaspar Gallery Barcelona
Founded in 1992, it dedicates itself to promote young artists and contemporary art.
The Temple of Augustus in Barcelona
In the first part of the entry on Barcelona hermetic, we referred to a chapter of the book by the Samoan writer Albert Hanover, Modelo de Espaldas (Behind the Model). As a game, with the number of God´s names according to the Kabbalah, there are about 73 seductive and sinking pages, which make up a strong maze of mirrors which is reflected, in an endless dance of masks among apocryphal and other realities well documented; the thousand and one faces of the Secret History of the Kabbalistic Barcelona (including its close relationship with Isaac the “blind” and the critical circle of Girona), alchemy, mysterious and magical, from the prehistoric dolmens and monoliths to the modern manifestation of Montesa Templar order, in motorcycle brand bearing the same name, through the Masonic Gnostic resonances octagons of the Eixample and the modernist architecture among other remarkable things. The same way, as throughout the chapter is particularly hard to distinguish on the other feature that is common to almost all the work written by Hanover, in which it is quite difficult to discover what information and characters are real and which are the result of the fable created by the author -noting the arbitrariness of any construction of meaning and the way we create and transfer what we call culture, if what we are reading is nothing more than a joke of gigantic and fantastic proportions, perhaps it did not constitute proof of its authenticity, because the texts are abundant in the East and West since ancient times considered the laughter, and its momentary collapse of the prevailing reality principle, as one of...Catalan Modernism Museum Barcelona
A museum dedicated entirely to the period of Catalan Modernism.
Freedonia Barcelona
Cultural association located in the neighbourhood of El Raval. As well as different activities which range from theatre, exhibitions, workshops and film series, you can
Muntadas. Between the Frames: The Forum
Following the idea that inspired the exhibition Volumen that Barcelona´s Contemporary Art Museum develops, on the 28th of September the exhibition Between the Frames: The Forum by the Catalan artist Antoni Muntadas is inaugurated. This was made over a period of 10 years, between 1983 and 1993, and it´s part of the MACBA collection. Antoni Muntadas, born in Barcelona in 1942, is considered to be one of the most important contemporary artists in the world. His conceptual work based on an incursion to the domain of mass media and his relation with politics and domination has meant that he´s a reference in all the biennials and exhibitions around the world, for the current subjects that communications have on the neoliberal sustainment system. The work Between the Frames: The Forum is linked with the series that Muntadas created in 2005 with On Translation: Stand By. It was followed, in 2007, by On Translation: Miedo/Jauf which is still in process. This work deals with social fears, that subjective construction that underlies in the subconscious and that is organized from the media as forms of social control. Fear, according to the work, starts building from the power through the messages. On Translation: Miedo/Jauf is a visual exhibition where Muntadas uses televisions where he broadcasts collages, images, interviews and press headlines, taped both in Tarifa and Tangiers. Between the Frames: The Forum is organized in different rooms to ask and talk about art, look and admire the tensions that the different actors on stage provoke at work, like collectors, guides, merchants, museums, media, critics and artists. The images on video are passed onto...Promotions
