Loop Barcelona. Videoart Festival

For eleven days, Barcelona will be the great international showcase of video art. Loop Barcelona – now in its 8th year – hosts its most extensive programme ever, featuring over one thousand videos in some hundred venues located throughout the city. 

In a restaurant, in a bookshop and even in a flat specially rented for the occasion, video art comes to the whole city for eleven days of Loop Barcelona, the most important international event in visual creation in existence.

Loop Barcelona

Artists presenting works include Michael Snow, Perejaume, John Baldessari, Miquel Barceló, Isabel Coixet, Eulàlia Valldosera and Bill Viola.

Among the videoforums that have been prepared, you might find yourself inspired by a meeting with film director Hannah Collins, who has a joint project with Ferran Adrià, or by seeing what television arts presenter Jef Cornelis has to say.

You can also see Miquel Barceló’s live creation of a piece of art at the Museu de Ceràmica de Barcelona.

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John Cage & John Baldessari at MACBA.

John Baldessari at MACBA

What do a musician and composer like John Cage and one of today’s most sought after visual artists, John Baldessari, have in common? Apart from the fact both have questioned artistic language, the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) will soon be dedicating a retrospective to them.

The museum’s new season offers us monographic exhibitions dedicated to artists who have questioned perception and the senses with their work.

So, apart from the retrospectives devoted to Cage (October 2009) and Baldessari (February 2010), you will also be able to see the works of Rodney Graham, which defy authority and Ray Johnson’s risky collages.

In addition, the art museum is going to show the work of other artists who move between various disciplines, like that of Gil J. Woman (between art, poetry and the cinema), Benet Rossell (between the cinema and calligraphy) and Latifa Echakhch (between sculpture and audiovisual creation).

Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona - www.macba.cat
Pl Àngels, 1 – Ciutat Vella

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