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Montserrat’s Museum has been awarded the ACCA Award to the Best Artistic Initiative 2012 for “its decided support to contemporary art”. The Art Critics’ ACCA Awards are given annually since 1982 by the general assembly of this association, from a free open debate on the exhibitions, initiatives and the most remarkable facts of the artistic season. The awards, of a honorary nature, consist on a certificate with the symbol that Joan Miró designed exclusively for this association. Father Josep de...

Montserrat’s Museum owns one of Ramon Casas’ most important collections in Catalonia, with almost thirty oils and drawings. Most of them are a donation to the monastery by Josep Sala Ardiz in 1980. Casas –like Santiago Rusiñol- is the most representative artist of Catalan Modernisme. The airs they breathed in Paris marked a major turnover in Catalan art at the end of the 19th century. The commemoration of the 150 years of the artist’s birth is a good opportunity...

Enkaoua, settled in Barcelona since 2004, presents a compendium of the decade lived in Catalonia, after spending 20 years in Israel. The fifty works on exhibit show a variety of motives and pretexts, mainly portraits, still natures and landscapes. Enkaoua obtains a great expressive efficiency of his works, up to the point that we can affirm that the artist is revitalising these genres. Some portraits of laying bodies unfold before us like an authentic landscape, and some still natures almost...

These concerts will also be broadcast live via Radio Montserrat (100,6FM / www.montserratradio.cat) and Montserrat TV (www.montserratcomunicacio.cat). More information: http://bit.ly/28OGRd9  

Two very different photographers, linked by time Photographs by two creators who have the gift to immediately perceive the depth that we, caught up in our daily affairs, are unable to observe. That is an ability only the most creative photographers have –to find artistic content in any situation, even the most unforeseen situations. In their works, Martí Gasull Coral and Martí Gasull Avellán also show us how art has changed over time, from one generation to the next. From the years preceding...

Due to improvement work on the line, the days from 9th to 12th May, both included, the Montserrat rack train will be out of service. As an alternative service yo can take the Montserrat cable car . To find out more, you can call the information line 012 or go to the portal www.fgc.cat .