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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 The 25-work exhibition –some of them unpublished, small and big size sculptures- seeks to offer a closer look at Asensi’s geometric abstraction.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...

Der Raum Père Pruna des Museums von Montserrat bringt vom 7. Juli bis 11. November die Ausstellung “Die Stille von Granatäpfeln” von Andrea Torres Balaguer unter, die aus ungefähr dreiβig Fotografien, einigen groβformatigen, besteht. Das Werk dieser jungen barcelonischen Künstlerin wird durch die Träume und den Surrealismus beeinflußt. Es erforscht den Zusammenhang zwischen Weiblichkeit und Natur durch den Symbolismus und die Technik der Transkription der Träume. Ihre Motive inspirieren sich an...

            The 8th Montserrat’s International Organ Festival. Abbot Cassià M. Just, in memoriam (FOUM)  presents a rich and diverse programme –classical and innovative- with touches of openness to new proposals, with a truly international musical level. According to its musical director, F. Jordi-Agustí Piqué, the will of the FIOM 2018 is ‘to explore new artistic possibilities of sound that include different tastes, multiple sensitivities and a varied audience’. The FOUM’s eighth editio...

Espai d’art Pere Pruna, at Museu de Montserrat (MDM), houses –until June 24th- the exhibition  Muntanyes de l’ànima  (Soul Mountains), by ceramist Maria Bofill. Curated by Anna Pujadas, in this exhibition Maria Bofill (Barcelona, 1937) focuses on the mountain, keeping always in mind Montserrat’s mountain: her life’s mountain, since it is in her country, it is part of her landscape, so it is her soul mountain.   Bofill offers ceramics mountains, sometimes literally, miniatures of mountains in...

Das Museum von Montserrat huldigt dem Maler Josep Niebla mittels einer anthologischen Austellung, die Hauptkapitel von seiner Kunstproduktion zeigt. Der Saal Daura bringt, vom 29. September bis zum 2. April 2018, die Ausstellung Erforschen und bestehen. Die Malerei von Niebla unter. Es legt Wert auf die besonders attraktive Serien, wie der Architektur gewidmete oder so genannt Plastisch-Politisches Alphabet, und auch die Tagebücher, die Meere und Afrika. Der Kritiker und Kunsthistoriker Daniel...