A still from Alexandra Navratil's homage to the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, 'Your Face consumes my Dreams'
Until 3 June Barcelona is hosting a massive video art extravanganza. Across the city in 106 venues ranging from museums to shops, the LOOP festival of video art is filling the entire city with video art works by more than 800 artists. Opening on Thursday is the only art fair devoted exclusively to video art. The LOOP Fair will go on for three days during which time it will bring together artists, 45 gallery owners, collectors, critics, museum directors and lovers of video art.
Highlights of the LOOP festival include the entire Cremaster Cycle by Matthew Barney, video art works by young Pakistani and Moroccan artists exhibited in shops in Barcelona's Raval area, Alexandra Navratil's homage to the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, 'Your Face consumes my Dreams', a selection of works by the Croatian artist Sanja Ivekovic, a pioneer in her country for her work in the areas of both feminism and video art, and an exhibition of video art from Germany from 1963 to the present.
For more information about these events and the fair visit the LOOP website.
LOOP: THE VIDEO ART FAIR '07
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