Barcelona Information

This Sunday 1 of June, we can enjoy with a very interesting spectacle, in the street.

The group of spectacles of ‘ format vertical’ , Deambulants, appears next to the Fireluche orchestra in the Gardens of the National Theater of Catalonia, Barcelona, with its spectacle ” Alt”.

Deambulants is a multidisciplinary group: dancers, plastic and visual creators, illuminators, theatrical designers, musicians, clowns, who says themselves in their Web, that they are looking for:

” to vindicate the use of the deep spaces - urban or natural and of the little current interiors, to support to the culture of quality street and to make its proposals to all type reasonable of público”.

Without doubts, it is a very interesting proposal for this Sunday, if you are in Barcelona. You can read more information in the Web of Deambulants.

The  exhibition is part of the program ‘Art in the street’, of  Obra Social aL Caixa, that will be exposed until the 15 of June, and then it will travel to other Spanish cities.

Some of works of the artist already had been exposed in Park Avenue de New York, in the gardens of the Palais Royal of Paris, and in the castle of Chenonceau (France).

Manolo Valdés (Valencia, 1942) is one of the main contemporary spanish artists.

Resident in New York for more than one decade, alternates the painting, the engraving and the sculpture. In the last years it has realised sculptures of great format for diverse cities.

And special example of this great format sculptures are the Meninas (reinterpretation of Velázquez):

As you know, in the summer time of Barcelona, you only must to take a walk on the Ramblas, and enjoy.

LOOP BARCELONA is the annual point of contact for the lovers of videoart of the world. This year, the platform adopts the form of Festival-Fair-Conferences.

The sixth edition, LOOP’ 08, will be able to be enjoyed until the 18 May of the 2008. Artists, curators, collectors, directors of museums, critics,  and fans to videoart, have a good way to interchange theirs experiences.

 Look at the exhibitions:

• ‘La Imatge com a Llenguatge’
  Casa Àsia - Av Diagonal, 371*373 - 933680320
  09/05/2008
• ‘LOOP the video art fair’08′
  Hotel Catalonia Ramblas - C Pelai, 28 - 933168400
  10/05/2008
• ‘For Your Eyes Only’
  Fundació Suñol - Pg Gràcia, 98 - 934961032
  10/05/2008
• ‘Frágil’
  Centre Cívic Convent de Sant Agustí - C Comerç, 36 - 933103732
  10/05/2008
• ‘Visión-a’
  Palau de la Virreina - C la Rambla, 99 - 933161000
  11/05/2008
• ‘Recent Iris Films From The Imma Collection’
  Fundació Joan Miró - Av Miramar, 1 - 934439470
  16/05/2008
• ‘Imatges a peu de carrer’
  Foment de les Arts i del Disseny - Pl Àngels, 5-6 - 934437520
  18/05/2008
• ‘New York - Barcelona Via Strip Film Festival (París)’
  Fundació Joan Brossa - C Provença, 318 - 934589994
  18/05/2008
• ‘Future’, Rubén Santiago
  Museu d’Història de la Ciutat - Conjunt Monumental de la Plaça del Rei - Pl Rei, 7*9 - 932562122
  18/05/2008
• ‘Pantalla CCCB, un mes un artista’ Jaime Pitarch
  Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona - Montalegre, 5 - 933064100
  31/05/2008
   

More information, in Loop web and in PDF.

One of the museums more visited of Barcelona, is the Picasso Museum, that now open it doors in Sundays, with the special cycle: Sundays in the Picasso.

This is a proposal of scenic arts that it tries to turn the museum in a space of citizen participation. The program of Sundays in the Picasso includes spectacles of circus, theater, music, dance.

The activities have a popular prices, 3 € only is the cost, and the children have a free pass.
For more information you can telephone 932 563 000/22 or email: museupicasso_reserves@bcn.cat.

Until 29 of June, 2008, and since 6 of July until 21 of september.

The writer will presents “Mirrors”, this Monday in Barcelona. Eduardo Galeano defines to his text like `Around the world in 600 stories” .

The Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano advances that he will read a selection of them in his  presentation Monday in  “American House in Barcelona“. In an interview, the recognized journalist and writer speak of his work like “a house that has many doors and many windows”, and invite the reader “to enter by where she wants”.

I remember the beautiful “Genesis” of “Memory of fire” (1982):

“The woman and the man dreamed that God was dreaming about them. God was singing and clacking his maracas as he dreamed his dream in a tobacco smoke, feeling happy but shaken by doubt& mystery. The Makiritare Indians know that if God dreams about eating, he gives fertility and food. If God dreams about life, he is born and gives birth.”

Something about Galeano and “Mirrors”, here (spanish).

I see it in El Universal.

Look at the Calendar: 

- Of this Festival, I don’t want to lose nothing, but I really love Satriani, Nascimento and Mercé. And you?

To all persons who like spanish guitars, here a little time of music:

 More information of this Festival,  here.
 

Those that we are in Spain, we have been seeing for a time a Tv  publicity of Aquarius (Coke), of “the Colifata”.

But, what is La Colifata? The Colifata is a radio that was born in 1991 in Buenos Aires, and at the microphone they are the patients of the psychiatric center Jose Tiburcio Borda.

It was born like an alternative therapy, and as his director Alfredo Olivera says: “We want that madness speaks, but also the fears that come associate to it… Everything are possible: a related soccer match that not yet has gambled, to interview to Nerón and to connect with the special envoy to Mars, where “trains are not seen flying over the sky”.

 Friday 4 of April of the 2008 in Barcelona,  you can see ”LT22 Radio the Colifata“, the documental of Carlos Larrondo, already awarded in Gijón in December.

In his prime opera, Larrondo, also accompanies to several members of the radio in its trip by Spain, France and Italy, where initiatives inspired by the experience of the Colifata work. In Barcelona, the camera related the meeting with Manu Chao, that already was cooperated with thems, with a edition of a disc to benefit of this peculiar radio.

(So sorry, but I can’t know where will be the exhibition, that if you know, please tell us)

I see this info in: haztelotu.wordpress.com

Spain have an important catholic traditions, and Spain Holy Week traditions are some famous in the world. The most glamorous celebrations are in Seville, Malaga and Cadiz. (until Antonio Banderas has been there, like in another years)

The participants in the Processions, names “nazarenos”, and they dress with a tunic and a “capirote” (hood wiht conical tip). Ironically, is similar to the uniform of Ku Kux Klan. The “nazarenos” carry candles, and some of them, carry a great Virgen or Jesus on theys shoulders.

Holy Week is an all Spain celebration, and Barcelona to. Look at a “Proccesion” in Barcelona:

In the Drassanes Reials of Barcelona, “Bodies” will be until day 31 of March.

This exhibition on the human body, that it has attracted more than 3 million people everywhere, has obtained in Barcelona more than 110,000 visits from its inauguration, the past 17 of November.

 ”Bodies” arrived at Barcelona like a exhibition that broke records, simultaneously that did not leave indifferent anybody. Guaranteed by the great success achieved in cities like New York, London, Amsterdam, Lisbon and Sao Paulo, the exhibition shows the human body as it is, with real human rest.

These bodies, of people died by natural causes, have been dissected by means of a revolutionary system, conserved with polymers and sectioned detail yet to be exposed everywhere.

You can enjoy (or not ;-)): until 31/03/2008, at Reials Drassanes de Barcelona, Av. Drassanes, 1, Ciutat Vella.

If you are in Barcelona in this moment, with yours children, is a good time to them.

From 8 to 13 February in Barcelona is the Festes de Santa Eulàlia , an interesting festival for children, that is celebrated in Ciutat Vella and throughout Barcelona .

The programme has some activities for all the childrens: shows, concerts, popular cultural events, giants on the streets, human castles.

 You can see the complete programme, in the web of Barcelona council, here.

In the great parade almost 3,000 people will participate to 51 ‘comparsas’.

Carnival 2008 already is here. In the edition of this year it will have more of a hundred of activities and traditional the great parade of the city will be transferred to the districts of Horta-Guinardó and Nou Barris.

There are 51 ‘comparsas’ which they will participate in the parade Saturday 2 of February.

Look at one of the ‘comparsas’, which participated Barcelona’s Carnival, in 2007:

Its complete name is Expiatorio Temple of the Sagrada Familia.

La Sagrada Familia is a great temple of Barcelona, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí, still in construction. . The Sagrada Familia is the masterpiece of Gaudí, the maximum exponent of the spanish modernist architecture.

If you visit the oficial web of the Sagrada Familia, you can take a look (virtual).

The picture of Ernesto Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda is the more reproduced  image in the history of the photography. The use of this image has been so diverse as  amount of supports that contain it: ash trays, t-shirts, tattoos, graphites, marks of beer, pins… and are distributed by all the corners of planetary geography.

In the exhibition “Che! Revolution and market “, conceived by the critic (english) Trisha Ziff, take shelter a three hundred of pieces, signed and anonymous, that reinforce or not, the photography original by Korda the 5 of March of 1960 in Havana, under the original title of “the heroic guerrilla”.

More in bcn.es.

One of the most representative characteristics of Barcelona is its great architectonic wealth, result of the long-haul of the towns that successively inhabited the city, and that pronounces in an urban structure that it is formed from four stages:

•  This first stage includes one of the key processes in the life of the city: its romanización. Is the primitive nucleus and the example is the Plaza de Sant Jaume.
• Medieval and modern Barcelona. Attractive main Medieval Barcelona gives to Barcelona one of its architectonic ones, the gothic district, that presents/displays the splendor of a manifest time in the enclosure of the seat of the King, its churches, houses, palaces and chapels and the facade of the Cathedral. Examples: Churchs of Betlem, de la Mare de Déu de la Mercè, la Casa de la Caritat, el Palau de la Virreina.
• The coming of the Modernismo leaves a track architectonic of first magnitude. The work of Gaudí (the Sagrada Family, the Milà-La House Stone quarry, the Vicenç House, the Batlló House, the Güell park, etc.), of Piug i Cadafalch (the houses Amatller, Martí, the Palau Macaya, etc.), and of Domènech i Montaner (the Hospital of Sant Pau, the Palau of Catalan Music) is key datum points in the history of the architecture and, some of them, patrimony of the humanity.
• Both last centuries. Outstanding architectonic works is became in the occasion of the Universal Exhibition of 1929, many of which are in the area of influence of Montjuïc and the seat of Espanya (the Magical Source, the National Palau, the Poble Espanyol, the Pavelló Mies goes to der Rohe, etc.).