The Ping Pong Dialogues was a dialectic proposal by Aimar Pérez Galí, in which he invited 6 players to hold a dialogue with him while they were playing table tennis. This activity was registered within the "Porosity" program that takes place the last Saturday of each month with proposals of young artists.
How powerful was the influence of John Cage in Catalonia? What relationship had he with the social and artistic environment of the time? As part of the anniversary of John Cage birth, we interviewed the Catalan composer Josep Maria Mestres Quadreny who answered these and other questions.
Carles Guerra presents the nine photographic series produced by Ahlam Shibli during the last decade which, through a documentary aesthetic, adress the contradictory implications of the notion of home.
Images taken from the contemporaneous media form the raw material for the art of Eulàlia Grau (Terrassa 1946). Since the early seventies, Eulàlia has been creating photographic montages and collages in the avant-garde tradition of an art committed to values that happen to be in crisis at the time of production of the work.
Itinerary through the first floor of the Museum, where you will find the Content Becomes Something to be Avoided like a Plague and The Art of the First Globalisation episodes. Content Becomes Something to be Avoided like a Plague presents work by Robert Rauschenberg, Antoni Tàpies, Raymond Hains, Nigel Henderson, Andrea Fraser, Robert Morris and Art & Language, among others. Connected to this revision of painting, The Art of the First Globalisation articulates a pioneering look at the global systemic model that has become generalised at the end of the XXth century. Already by the sixties and seventies, works by Marcel Broodthaers, Öyvind Fahlström, Hans Haacke, Miralda and Hélio Oiticica begin to anticipate the dominance of globalization.
Miralda's work, Holy Food, served as stage for the Yoruba community of Barcelona pay tribute to Orula deity through music, singing and the play of drums.