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 The 25-work exhibition –some of them unpublished, small and big size sculptures- seeks to offer a closer look at Asensi’s geometric abstraction.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

Espai d’Art Pere Pruna (MDM) houses –from July 7th to Nov. 11th- the exhibition  The Silence of the Pomegranates  by Andrea Torres Balaguer, with around 30 photographies, some of them big size. The work of this Young Barcelonian artist is influenced by dreams and surrealism, exploring the relationship between femininity and nature by means of symbolism and the dream transcription technique. Inspired by references to magical surrealism and the theory of psychoanalysis, her images experiment with...

              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 edi...

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...