Barcelona Gallery Weekend

Barcelona Gallery Weekend, organized by the Art Barcelona association opens on September 14, from 12 noon. and will have the participation of 27 contemporary and modern art galleries: 21 in Barcelona, 5 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat and 1 in Santa Margarida i les Monjos (Penedès). Barcelona Gallery Weekend is a cultural event that highlights the work of art galleries as spaces that generate culture and knowledge, places of experimentation and discovery that allow connections and meetings between artists, collectors, the public and institutions

Participating galleries are spread across the city. By area: House Of Chappaz, in Gràcia; 3 Punts Gallery, ADN Gallery, Artur Ramon Art, Joan Prats Gallery, Marc Domènech Gallery, Marlborough Barcelona Gallery, Uxval Gochez Gallery, Zielinsky, Mayoral, ProjecteSD, RocioSantaCruz, Suburbia Contemporary and Victor Lope Arte Contemporáneo, in the Eixample; Bombon Projects, Dilalica, LAB36 and Taché Art Gallery, which is opening a new location, located on Carrer Trafalgar, on the border between Eixample and El Born; Àngels Barcelona and Sala Parés, in Ciutat Vella, and Chiquita Room in Sant Antoni.

In L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Ana Mas Projects, ethall, Galería Alegría, L21 Barcelona and NoguerasBlanchard are part of the program, and in Santa Margarida and les Monjos, in the Penedès region, PALMADOTZE.

Barcelona Gallery Weekend will feature the work of great national artists: Ana Mas Projects will present a retrospective of Berta Cáccamo, curated by Juan de Nieves, which recovers the memory of the Spanish abstract and conceptual painter through paintings and papers representative of his various aesthetic configurations throughout his artistic career. The artist Patricia Dauder will have a solo exhibition at ProjecteSD, Interiors, a show where the artist tries to capture the passage of time, fleeting moments, ephemeral trajectories and spaces in transformation in formats such as sculpture and works on paper. In addition, Patricia Dauder also takes part in Berta Cáccamo's retrospective. Joan Fontcuberta will present at Ángels Barcelona Elevage de Poussière (Cria de pols), an exhibition that highlights the unfulfilled promise of the immortality of photography, through the exhumation of photographs from various historical archives, and portraying them with an electron microscope to show the microorganisms that are eating the memory. Galeria Alegria will host the joint site-specific exhibition of Alberto Peral, with his particular classical avant-garde language, and Luis Bisbe, which intervenes directly on the perception of the space that surrounds us, two ways of doing and looking , two practices and two different conceptions, which meet, hybridize and cross in "From what one says / what is like / only double", addressing the exhibition space as an active and integral part of the exhibition.

Ignasi Aballí will present PALMADOTZE Reading images, a reflection on the relationship between images and texts, between what we see and what we call, one of the transversal themes in his work. Aballí selects images found in newspapers – all of them have as their theme the photographic, pictorial, scientific image –, scans them and finds the average color of the image. This color – or pixel – expands over the entire surface of the canvas.

The painter Dis Berlin returns to Barcelona after more than a decade to present Laberinto de soledades at Sala Parés, a selection of paintings from the artist's latest production, as well as a sculpture installation, a show that revolves around the idea of the search for new mysteries that take various forms setting up true pictorial enigmas built for contemplation. Oriol Vilapuig will exhibit Theory of Bodies at RocioSantCruz, title taken from a book by Gabriel Ferrater, an exhibition that groups together the artist's latest works around the idea of the body.

The artist and curator Fito Conesa proposes Vocatiu, a video installation, made up of three projections and a score, in which a musician interprets the musical composition in three different moments, an interval of time that makes the interpretation of the itself becomes a personal and non-transferable decision, at House of Chappaz.

The ethall gallery will exhibit Ca't Beat The Real Thing, by the Argentine visual artist established in Barcelona Martín Vitaliti, a project that relates the concept of subliminal advertising (associated with the promotion of Coca-Cola consumption in cinemas) with manipulation emotional generated through editing tools in commercial Hollywood cinema and audiovisual advertising. At Bombon Projects, Enric Farrés Duran will present Mal de ojo, an exhibition resulting from a research process to make a decision: whether or not to undergo ophthalmological surgery.

Abstract, illusionistic and fantastic painting

Pictorial curation I: Esther Guillén. A project by Lola Lasurt, at the Joan Prats Gallery, claims the abstract artistic practices that interest the artist: a pictorial approach to the School of Vallecas (1920-1939) and the ceramics of Esther Guillén (Lleida, 1943) , generating a genealogy of practices through formally connected works and elements.

The artist Antonio Ortega will exhibit at the Galería Uxval Gochez Reginald & Perrin. Antonio Ortega's last paintings, a series of canvases starring a couple of stones located in uncertain landscapes, illusionistic paintings that lead to indifference and the absence of opinion. There is a that never goes out, by Cesc Abad a Víctor Lope Arte Contemporáneo, represents a pictorial evolution of his previous works through a new series of more refined forms and where the human presence is now the protagonist, leaving nature in a background; the artist and designer Jaime Hayon immerses us in his fantastic universe at L21 Barcelona, with extravagant characters and leafy nature in his recently created paintings and sculptures; Mar Hernández intervenes photographs through drawing at Universale, an exhibition that focuses on the emotional impact of the destruction of the home, focusing on the brick and the personal footprint that is generated in this space, at Suburbia Contemporary.

Espart, talc and glass, the art of materials

Saló salvat, by Yolanda Tabanera, shows Artur Ramon Art sculptural pieces with materials traditionally linked to craftsmanship, such as glass and esparto, used in a sculptural way and loading the objects with universal iconological content; Chiquita Room will exhibit Children and Fools by Teresa Estapé, which questions the productivity demands of being through a set of jewels inherited from the symbolic charge of primitive jewelry and produced in talc, the softest mineral on the Mohs scale . Dilalica will present La Biblioteca, an installation of more than 2,000 pieces of glass placed on the floor following a morphological and measurement order.

The exhibition, the work of Stella Rahola Matutes, condenses the inventory of the materials that the artist uses: discarded pieces of blown borosilicate glass from artisan workshops, to make a rug from a vulnerable, discarded and incomplete material . The Catalan painter and sculptor Jordi Alcaraz will present Gnòmon in Mayoral, an exhibition that revolves around the mechanism of a sundial, an exhibition that breaks the boundaries of painting and sculpture, and uses materials such as methacrylate, mirrors, the ink or the iron.

3 punts Galeria

Collective exhibitions

3 Punts Galeria has asked twelve artists who will be part of the collective exhibition Beyond Tags, to give their vision to the human need to catalog according to gender, class, political preferences or sexual tendencies, among others, in order to control it. The exhibition will feature works by Samuel Salcedo, Alejandro Monge, Gerard Mas, Lantomo, Sra. D (Lara Padilla), Santiago Picatoste, Penrider, Ramon Surinyac, José Cobo, Kiko Miyares, Paola de Grenet and Richard Stipl.

In tribute to Galería Carles Taché's almost 40-year history, the new space Taché Art Gallery will present Memoria I, a collective exhibition with a selection of artists personally and professionally linked to the gallery throughout its history. The exhibition will feature works by Joan Brossa, MA Campano, Tony Cragg, Michael Joo, Catherine Lee, Bosco Sodi and Antoni Tàpies. An exhibition that highlights the legacy, history and memory of the old gallery, but in a new space and with a generational change.

Galeria Marc Domènech will exhibit Fields of Silence, an exhibition that highlights the importance that monochrome painting has had especially from the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition offers a non-chronological tour through a selection of paintings made by artists from the fifties, who approach this type of painting from an expressive and reflective perspective, not as purist as that of some of their foreign counterparts . The exhibition will feature works by Sergi Aguilar, Pic Adrian, Erwin Bechtold, Alfons Borrell, Joan Claret, Xavier Escribà, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Georges Noël, Ana Peters, Enric Planasdurà, Miquel Rué, José Maria Sicilia, Teo Soriano, Antoni Tàpies, Vicenç Viaplana and Setxu Xirau Roig.