In this edition of Art Nou we asked the artist Claudia del Barrio to contribute a personal vision of the festival. The proposal consisted of a series of videos about some of the exhibitions.
This tour is both a protest against the walls at the border, in the legal system, and against cultural, institutional and economic walls. This tour is also a celebration of the anti-racist network in Barcelona.
The peripheries are so as long as we legitimize a center. In the city there are many peripheries, some urban, which are the easiest to see. Barcelona always flees from the peripheries. Everything beyond the Cerdà urbanistic plan is considered periphery.
We dreamt of freedom, anarchy was in bloom all around, the dictatorship had fallen and we were celebrating on the streets with our painting, writing and performance. Innocent, we could finally see this other world through a peephole!
The Collector is Present is back for another year, we have been talking to Mela Dávila, Manuel Expósito, Natàlia Chocarro, Alex Nogueras and Rocío Santa Cruz, who have shared with us their views and experiences in relation to collecting, with recommendations and advices for the first collections.
The seven guilds active during the 2023-2024 academic year have let us into their research spaces to share their experiences and tell us briefly who they are, what they do, and the words they would use to describe their journey through Santa Mònica.
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The Collector is Presente was one of the proposals of this Barcelona Gallery Weekend 2023, a new appointment in the galleries of Barcelona, which for a weekend offered a special agenda as a result of the collaboration between collectors and gallery owners.
