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A selection of the original graphic art by Joaquim Chancho, produced between 1972 and 2013, composed of serigraphs, etchings and lithographs, can be seen at Espai d’Art Pere Pruna in Montserrat’s Museum (MDM) from 10th November to 15th March 2015. The exhibition –named Estampes (Prints) - is made up of forty pieces produced from different techniques – some of them in collaboration with artists and different graphic art workshops in Barcelona. According to curator Ant&ogr...

Montserrat’s Museum presents, until Nov. 2nd, an unprecedented exhibition of Coptic textiles. It is the completion of a long process of work, study and restoration, which started after they were donated to the Monastery in 1999 by Soler Vilabella family. The exhibition ‘The Coptic Textiles of Montserrat’s Museum: The Soler Vilabella collection’ has worth beyond the textile typologies it gathers. Its importance lies especially in all the historiography that contextualiz...

Espai d'Art Pere Pruna at MDM houses a small retrospective exhibition with various sculptures by Josep Maria Subirachs, offering a representative sample of his different artistic periods. The Barcelonian artist, who passed away last April 7th, has been one of the most emblematic Catalan sculptors. He has led a solid, world-renowned career. The show –open until autumn- contains a small group of feminine figures that still give off the ‘Noucentisme’ movement’s influences o...

Sala Daura at Montserrat’s Museum holds a tribute exhibition to Joan Barbarà, considered one of the best Catalan engravers of the 20th century. Entitled Mediterrani , the exhibition gathers one hundred works –among engravings, oil paintings and drawings- and examines subjects such as landscape, architecture, and the products from the earth and the sea. Among the works that can be seen at Montserrat are several series of engravings. The section Empúries, inici d&rsquo...

The exhibition Vanitas – Libraries consists of a selective, intimate series of sixteen works about libraries which the painter Carles Gabarró carried out between August and October 2006, and had never been exhibited yet . On scaffolding-like orthogonal structures the artist gathers books and personal objects developing a library. A library is, according to tradition, the private, solemn place where thoughts and culture are built and preserved. These libraries are punctuated with s...

Espai d’Art Pere Pruna, at Montserrat (MDM), houses a photography exhibition by Francesc Esteve (Sabadell, 1932) named ‘Reflections on the Past’. The show is made up of around eighty black and white photos, most of them taken between the 50s and the 60s and is linked to the Italian Neorealism. Through his photos, Francesc Esteve earns a position in the social photographic chronicle of our country, since he has been able to capture a period and a town: Sabadell. “I have...