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The German artist Waltraud Maczassek, who settled down in Barcelona and resides now in Penedès area, shows the exhibition Parallel Universes –at Montserrat’s Museum’s Sala Pere Daura until June 9th – a collection of thirty mixed-technique works –sculpture / acrylic- through cuttings carved with her fingers, leaving traces. Waltraud Maczassek’s work, mostly pictorial, draws its inspiration from nature to depict interior landscapes, and is closely align...

The retrospective Jordi Fornas, painter, aims to be a well-deserved homage to this artist who, for many years, was the head graphic designer of magazine Serra d’Or. Best known as a designer, Jordi Fornas Martínez belongs to the leading group of artists and intellectuals who contributed to modernise the Catalan culture during the Sixties, in his case through pop style. This exhibition focuses exclusively on both his paintings and his sculptural work, less well known. The exhibition...

Montserrat’s Library has promoted a version of Montserrat’s Bible in ePUB, one of the most popular standards for most e-book readers. Therefore, by entering http://www.bibliotecademontserrat.net/cat/html/bibliaepub.htm, anyone can download Montserrat’s Bible using this format, which is supported by most mobile devices and computers (Windows XP/Vista/7, Windows 8, Mac OS, iOS iPhone and Android). Montserrat’s Bible is already accessible through iSilo software since 2007....

Jordi Fornas, painter , From March 4th at Espai d'Art Pere Pruna Montserrat’s Museum (MDM) is preparing an exhibition about the graphic designer Jordi Fornas – Jordi Fornas, Painter -, at Espai d'Art Pere Pruna from March 4th to June 9th, curated by Sílvia Muñoz d'Imbert. Jordi Fornas Martínez was, for many years, the head graphic designer of magazine Serra d’Or. Best known as a designer, he belongs to the leading group of artists and intellectuals w...

Montserrat’s Museum shows two paintings by Hermen Anglada-Camarasa (Barcelona, 1871 - Pollença, 1959) until September 2013. Originally from Madrid’s Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, they are an exchange for the lending of Dalí’s Neocubist Academy, propriety of Montserrat. These paintings are The gypsy of the pomegranates (1904), oil on canvas, 114,5 x 147,5 cm, and Portrait of Sonia de Klamery, Countess of Pradère (1913), oil on canvas, 188...

The Museum of Montserrat houses -in its two temporary exhibition halls Pere Daura and Espai d'Art Pere Pruna-, its first artistic installation: The display Laments , by Javier Pérez (Bilbao, 1968), based in a collection of seventeen black glass bells. The artist's work deepens in the ephemeral condition of the human being, and its physical chain. Laments , commissioned by Teresa Blanch, can be seen at Museum of Montserrat until February 11yh 2013. A bronze rosary of actual-size sku...