Xavier Ribas "Sin título (Picnic solar industrial). Serie Domingos", 1994-1997
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What is the art complex? Part 2
Art of the Twentieth- and Twenty-first Centuries, a Post-Fordist Perspective
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The second edition of the course What is the Art Complex? revolves around the two exhibitions grouped under the title Art, two points. Barcelona lives Contemporary Art at MACBA and at CaixaForum.
Generic terms such as ‘avant-garde’, ‘modernity’ and ‘contemporaneity’ have become insufficient to adequately deal with the art of the twentieth century and beyond. If we use a post-Fordist lens to examine the conditions under which the art of the immediate past has been produced, what comes to the foreground is the great interpretative capacity of the audience. Creating art history means having to create the history of the audiences of art, whether they have admired or loathed it. As such, the post-Fordist condition invites us to go back and revisit the 20th century as a period in which public opinion became the arena for the most radical and advanced art. But the real subject of a course like this is the set of narratives about the works that now form part of the MACBA and La Caixa Foundation Collections.
The course consists of six lectures that will introduce and discuss the key ideas about each topic. The lectures will be accompanied by a guided tour of some of the most iconic and controversial pieces in these two contemporary art collections.
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A cop d’esdeveniment. La difícil escenificació de la capitalitat de Barcelona — Què és el complex de l’art? Segona part. L’art dels segles XX i XXI, en clau postfordista [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
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Barcelona, model i mite — Què és el complex de l’art? Segona part. L’art dels segles XX i XXI, en clau postfordista [Enregistrament audiovisual activitat]
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