(80s hoodlums. In film, press and the street)
Montalegre, 5. Barcelona
Curated by Amanda Cuesta and Mery Cuesta
The starting point of the exhibition "Quinquis de los 80" is the figure of the "quinqui," or hoodlum, created by the films about juvenile delinquency which reached their zenith in Spain between 1978 and 1985. "Quinqui" cinema involves an unusual and intricate feedback relationship with the sensationalist press of the period. However, it also acts as an accurate reflection of the urban, social, political and economic transformations that the country underwent in that period. The methods of depicting juvenile crime in quinqui cinema still persist today, to the extent that the stereotype of the quinqui, after a process of aesthetisation, still fascinates, even today. Most of the items on display in "Quinquis de los 80" are audiovisual montages of those films accompanied by very varied material that puts them into context: documentaries from the period, press cuttings, photographs, comics, records, cassettes, original objects, posters, urban plans, etc.
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La Rambla, 99. Barcelona
"Ingrid. Last Login" is an exhibition that shows how new technologies, and the virtual communities on the Internet such as Myspace, DeviantArt and Flickr in particular, are helping to disseminate artistic circuits. "Ingrid. Last Login" is part of a more complex artistic creation project. It includes the production of a digital space (www.myspace.com/x_ingrid_x), a film created and directed by Eduardo Cortés ("Ingrid"), and the production of an exhibition space (the Xavier Miserachs hall) in order to construct the character of Ingrid, who symbolises a group of young artists known as Generation Y. The exhibition presents work by emerging artists who use digital networks as a space for creation and dissemination. They are a varied and multidisciplinary group; an urban generation who have set no limits on creative support, on space or practically on technique.
Alberto Polo Iañez (Alvértigo - image), Chus Sánchez (Bulle), Lara Alegre (Cordelia), Albert Pérez (Darude), Laura Moreno (Laura Encursiva), Marc Torrent (Lenoir), María de Puente (MuteBox), Mathieu Alliard (Vladimir Borowicz), Mamen Morillas (Agente Morillas), Laia Llorca, Sergio Mora (Mágicomora), Raquel Aparicio (Ruki), Saelia Aparicio (Sae), Marta Puig (Lyona), Elisabet Sort (Lhywend), Ola Navarro, (LadyPain) and Julia Mayfair, and a list of musical groups that are also participating directly or indirectly, are the artists on display in the Xavier Miserachs space at the Palau de la Virreina. They all use provocative visual language to show the creative talent and the cultural processes that are emerging beyond the demands of the market, based on new means of expression, experimentation with new languages and new movements for cultural dissemination.
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Plaça dels Angels, 1
Curators: Bartomeu Marí and Antònia Maria Perelló
Production: Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)
With a view to showing the works acquired by the MACBA Collection in the last two years, as yet unseen in that context, the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art devotes all of its exhibition space to its collections: the three floors of the Museum, the Capella dels Àngels and the exhibition hall in the Studies and Documentation Centre.
The exhibition features presentation of the priority lines of interest and research at the MACBA in this new stage, initiated in 2008. While over recent years the Collection has started to gather together documents that function as works of art (Grup de Treball, Tucumán Arde (Tucuman is Burning), works by collectives of artists and activists and so on), this has not implied forgoing the collection of great works by significant artists of our time. Alongside the abundance of fragments, it is important to consolidate nuclei of singular and complementary works that can express discourses on the nature of artistic creation and the historical moment in which we live. The MACBA is ideally placed to build a collection, which explains the passing from the 20th to the 21st century, which begins with formulations of the final utopias of the last century and speaks of its crises, and then follows the present century, with its complexities and contradictions.
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