Nachrichten

Jaume Plensa is presenting a double exhibition approach in Montserrat. The Barcelonian artist has installed a big size sculpture in the Basilica’s atrium. Additionally, a selection of Plensa’s recent graphic art will be displayed at Espai d’Art Pere Pruna until November 3rd.   His sculpture in the middle of the atrium depicts a head made of stainless steel thread, transparent but visible, in his interest for the body and the soul. The idea of a portrait adopts an original attitude in which wh...

Due to the pass of the ciclists of ‘La Vuelta a España’, on August 31 traffic on the access roads to the Nature Park and Monastery of Montserrat will be affected. Between 2.45 and 5 pm the roads BP-1101, BP-1103 and BP-1101 will be closed and you will not be able to enter or leave the Monastery and/or access the Nature Park. If you plan to access or leave the Sanctuary at this time, you can usse the transport service of Rack Railway or Cable Car .

On 5th October, the throne of the Virgin will be closed at 18:15 h.

Montserrat’s Museum (MDM) presents, until May 5, 2019, an in-house production exhibition, curated by art historian Bernat Puigdollers, which deepens into the intimate und personal world of Maria Girona and Albert Ràfols Casamada and gets into the roots that link both their paths, divergent and personal but at the same time close and convergent.  The possible equilibrium  is the result of a long research process that contributes with numerous so far unseen aspects of their careers. They are gathe...

Salvador Juanpere's extensive career as a sculptor is marked by strong questions about the raison d'être of sculpture, which combines with a great respect for the daring sculptors who came before him, from whom he draws thoughts, shares ideas about what the origin of the shape would be, and speculates with them, with philosophers and writers about the complexities of this craft. With the aim of playing down the supposed genius of artistic work, he has drawn up a conceptual map of everything that...

Sala Daura in Museu de Montserrat (MDM) houses, from April 20th to October 7th, the exhibition Mirrors of Stone, by Enrique Asensi. The 25-work exhibition –some of them unpublished, small and big size sculptures- seeks to offer a closer look at Asensi’s geometric abstraction. It displays a selection of his indoor works, sheltered by the imposing beams and girders of Josep Puig i Cadafalch supporting the ceiling. As Berger argues, “art does not help explain the mysterious. What art does is make i...