Although under these lines we select five exhibition proposals that have shone in Barcelona in 2021, year of the irruption of the NFT in the world of art and the Any of the painter Palau Ferre, the Catalan capital has seen changes in some of its artistic spaces such as the Macba, where for the first time in its history a woman came to the direction , Elvira Dyangani Ose, and the Arts Santa Mònica embarked on a new course led by Enric Puig Punyet.
In a review of the year, Barcelona has celebrated the opening, in front of the Museu Picasso, of a new and attractive museum of modern and contemporary art, the MOCO, with works by Basquiat, Warhol and Banksy. It has also witnessed how the latter, elusive and mysterious urban artist par excellence, was the object of an ambitious display at the Museu del Disseny (until March). And how interactive displays such as Escher’s at the Drassanes, and immersive displays such as the digital art collective teamLab at CaixaForum or those by Klimt and then Frida Khalo at Ideal, Center d’Arts Digitals.
There has been no lack of video art, with the pieces by John Akomfrah at the Fundació Tàpies; neither the emergence of modern sculpture, at the Fundació Miró, nor photography: the ‘monsters’ by Joan Fontcuberta at Can Framis; Claudia Andujar’s Amazonia, Garry Winogrand’s streets or Paolo Gasparini’s Latin America, in the KBr center; or the marginal lives of women portrayed by Mary Ellen Mark, in Foto Colectania.
While the Catalan galleries recovered their pulse in pandemic, in Madrid the ARCO fair returned, Magritte’s universe took over the Thyssen Museum and the Reina Sofía reordered its avant-garde collection and the Prado Museum, its nineteenth-century rooms. And if the Guggenheim in Bilbao offered the groundbreaking work of the artist Alice Neel, in Lleida, the Sorigué Foundation premiered a permanent work by Chiharu Shiota in the Planta complex.
And now yes, five exhibitions to remember:
From the Civil War to Gaudí at the MNAC
Although the CCCB now runs the unusual exhibition on the use of the mask (from the KKK to ‘V for Vendetta’), until July the center traveled the galaxy with ‘Mars, the red mirror’, searching the mythical planet for how to help the earth. From Ray Bradbury to Carl Sagan and between incunabula, comics, movies and Martian meteorites.
Graphic art ‘made in the USA’, from Warhol to Lichtenstein
With large and colorful pieces by artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Willem de Kooning and Jasper Johns, CaixaForum Barcelona (after passing through the Madrid headquarters) toured six decades of American graphic art in ‘The dream American. From pop to today ‘.
The priceless Tous collection, at the Macba
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