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Documentation of Composiciones, a series of five artists' commissions for the first Barcelona Gallery Weekend, 1–4 October 2015
Projects by David Be
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Composiciones (Compositions) complimented the Barcelona Gallery Weekend programme of exhibitions and events by commissioning artists active in the Barcelona art scene to produce interventions that responded to singular private and public spaces
outside the contemporary art circuit – including a private
psychoanalytic library, a former ceramics factory and a botanical
collection.
Pinpointing some lesser-known aspects of the city's cultural history and municipal life, Composiciones offered moments of interruption, intimacy and immersion throughout the weekend.
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Photo album of the project... |
 Project
by Rasmus Nilausen and Pere Llobera at the house of a former priest in
the gardens of La Central bookstore in Raval. Photos: Roberto Ruiz /
Courtesy: Barcelona Gallery Weekend. |
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In the Gardens of La Central del Raval, Nilausen and Llobera's
works occupied a former priest's house and explored "acheiropoietic"
images – those that have supposedly come into being not by human hand,
but miraculously.
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 Project
by Dora García at the Biblioteca del Campo Freudiano de Barcelona.
Photos: Roberto Ruiz and Andrea Paesante / Courtesy: Barcelona Gallery
Weekend. |
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 Project
by David Bestué at the home of the former director of the Cosme Toda
Ceramics Factory, L'Hospitalet (Barcelona). Photos: Roberto Ruiz /
Courtesy: Barcelona Gallery Weekend. |
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David Bestué
produced a new installation in the form of a sculptural timeline
defined by ignition and invention, fat and oil, obsolescence,
fluorescence, luminescence and incandescence – a history of humanity
from antiquity to the present day told through the evolution and
refinement of lighting technology.
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 Installation
view of Jordi Mitjà intervention at the Museu Geològic del Seminari de
Barcelona. Photos: Roberto Ruiz / Courtesy: Barcelona Gallery Weekend. |
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Steegmann Mangrané's audio intervention at the Umbracle, Parc de la
Ciutadella. Photos: Roberto Ruiz and Latitudes / Courtesy: Barcelona
Gallery Weekend. |
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Reviews, blogs, social media posts...
(Video, Catalan) El Barcelona Gallery Weekend arriba a L’H, LH Digital, 29 September 2015
Amid Catalan Separatism, Barcelona Launches its First Gallery Weekend, artnet news, 30 September 2015
(Video, Catalan) Descobrim la Barcelona més artística, 8TV, 4 October 2015
(Video, Catalan) La mostra "Luces" permet visitar l'edifici modernista de Cosme Toda, LH Digital, 5 October 2015
Barcelona Gallery Weekend, Anno Zero, Camilla y el Arte, 6 October 2015
(Spanish) Composiciones, Barcelona Gallery Weekend, Fede Montornés, 9 October 2015
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