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MACBA brings together a variety of key works showcasing contemporary artistic creation. The permanent display features Catalan, Spanish and international artists such as Calder, Tàpies, Basquiat and Keith Haring to name but a few. As well as exhibiting works from its collection, the museum offers a wide-ranging programme of temporary exhibitions and organises activities on contemporary arts and culture.
The museum is an international leader in the dissemination of contemporary art and cultural practices.
Centrally located, its dazzling structure by Richard Meier outwardly reflects its very contemporary interior and overlooks the lively square of Plaça dels Àngels. The museum store is a fantastic place for books, gifts and artist designed objects.
The Collection
Containing emblematic works by artists such as Calder, Basquiat or Tàpies, among others, the MACBA Collection takes visitors on a chronological journey from 1929 to the present.
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Teresa Lanceta: Weaving as Open Source
For Teresa Lanceta (Barcelona, 1951), the act of weaving constitutes a triggering of critical imagination beyond the confines of materiality. For her, weaving is an open-source formula of repetition and rupture, from which it is possible to read, transform and convey a knowledge that is always complex and plural. It is a procedure for which there is no rough outline to follow; where figure and ground, object and language, medium and image, come together at the same time, assuming the unexpected, along with error and success. Accepting the unexpected is for Lanceta a way of learning a primordial and universal source or code that clearly manifests an internal law; a law that transcends physical, temporal and cultural frontiers. For weaving is a techné – a ‘technical’ knowledge dependent on a specific geographical, cultural and human context, be it, in her case, Barcelona’s Raval neighbourhood, where she lived, or the Middle Atlas, which she visited every year for three decades. Both of these places fed her fascination for women’s work and the non-verbal communication of stories and emotional bonds.
Cinthia Marcelle: A Conjunction of Factors
A Conjunction of Factors is the first exhibition to offer an overall perspective on the work of Cinthia Marcelle (b. 1974, Belo Horizonte). Driven by a desire to disorganise the hierarchies and binary oppositions that pattern our daily interactions, the interconnected layers of Marcelle’s practice express a consistent concern with reimagining the dynamics of collectivity.
Mirroring the development of her practice through recurrent series and across varied media, A Conjunction of Factors evokes associations and connections between Marcelle’s consistent concerns and ways of working. Across her practice, similar gestures are performed on radically different scales. Materials change shape, travelling across installations, photographs and moving images. Motifs recur in different configurations. Series of works do not begin and end, but recede and emerge, and may be shown together or held in reserve like a pack of cards to be played in a game of association.
