Activity
Thursday, 2 December 2021

Let’s talk about… Cabaret

Notes for an Eye Fire

With Antoni Hervàs

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With Antoni Hervàs, artist.

The programme Let’s talk about… generates discussions on the Museum’s exhibitions between the different agents and artists in the city and our regular public. It is a meeting point that regards exhibitions as powerful devices capable of activating the imagination and generators of discourses that often go beyond the preconceived readings of the institution or the curatorial team.

		
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dates

Thursday, 2 December 2021

timetable

6:30 p.m.

price

Price: Free admission. Limited capacity. Previous booking required.

title

Let’s talk about… Cabaret

location

Museum galleries

dates

Thursday, 2 December 2021

title

Let’s talk about… Cabaret

timetable

6:30 p.m.

location

Museum galleries

price

Price: Free admission. Limited capacity. Previous booking required.

this activity is part of

Let’s talk about… Notes for an Eye Fire

activity

18.11.2021 – 02.12.2021

participant

Antoni Hervàs

Barcelona

1981

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Antoni Hervàs presents enthusiastic, vividly coloured, genre-bending explorations of the possibilities of drawing that often deal with overlooked aspects of subversive popular spectacle, from carnival and burlesque to synchronised swimming and amusement parks. In recent years, he has produced exuberant collage-based environments out of humble materials, cardboard murals, papier-mâché sculptures, low-tech video displays and live performances. Often departing from existing graphic representations, personal archives and other firsthand testimony, the sometimes jarring new configurations he makes through drawing manage to joyfully animate dialogues with apparently unconnected historical situations and imaginaries, whether between the 1970s Barcelona cabaret scene and Greek mythology in El misterio de Caviria (2016) or the gender-crossing stage of traditional English pantomime and a circus of horrors in Sausages (2021).

Antoni Hervàs studied fine arts at the Universitat de Barcelona (2006) and engraving and printing at the Escola Llotja. His solo exhibitions include Copacabana, at The RYDER Projects, Madrid (2021), and Sausages, at OKELA, Bilbao (2021). He has participated in several group exhibitions, including Adiós, que estés bien, Comunidad de Madrid museums (2019), and Generaciones 2018, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2018). Hervàs has been a resident at Gasworks, London (2018), and the 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles (2017), and won the 2016 Premi Ciutat de Barcelona d’Arts Visuals.

More information: antonihervas.com

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