'ON THE MARGINS OF ART' AT MACBA
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A new exhibition at Macba investigates the vast collection of artists' documents and editions in the museum's collections. Featuring the work of Joseph Beuys, Mirtha Dermisache, Antonio Dias, Alfredo Jaar and Barbara Kruger, among many others.
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SUSAN BRIGHT ON PHOTOESPANA, MADRID
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Photo España has come of age: it feels established and very much part of the civic atmosphere of the city of Madrid. Among its various elements is the Discoveries exhibition which gives emerging photographers a vital platform for which their work to be seen. The winner receives a solo show the following year; this year the young Swiss photographer Yan Gross presented 'Horizonville', a study of a transitory community which come together to celebrate American culture in rural Switzerland.
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JAMES TURRELL AT NMAC FOUNDATION, CADIX
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This new site-specific project by James Turrell is an underground architectural skyspace piece, in which viewers enter an inner pyramid via a tunnel. At the end of the tunnel is a stone stupa and above it a circular hole, open to the sky. Here, visitors can sit down and watch the changes of light "sculpted" by the artist. 
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SAADANE AFIF AT ESPAI D'ART CONTEMPORANI DE CASTELLO, SPAIN
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Since 2004 Saâdane Afif has been constructing his exhibitions like record releases. Under a generic title, he groups together a set of elements that usually define and colour an album, and for each project Afif works with a songwriter he commissions to pen lyrics for the works he is presenting. To date, with the catch-all title of Lyrics, each of Saâdane Afif's exhibition projects has led to an album. 
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CAI GUO-QIANG AT GUGGENHEIM BILBAO
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Conceived as a spectacular site-specific installation in Frank Gehry's groundbreaking building, this exhibition explores Cai's creative universe that features such new art forms as gunpowder drawings, outdoor explosion events, large-scale installations, and social projects inspired by ancient mythology, military history, Taoist and Buddhist philosophy, cosmological science, pyrotechnic technology, Chinese medicine, and contemporary global conflict. 
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CILDO MEIRELES AT MACBA, BARCELONA
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On the floor, a sea of broken glass, which crackles and crunches underfoot time and time again. Before your eyes, a maze in which there are no walls, only prison bars, fences, curtains, aquariums with translucent fish swimming around, their bones easily visible to the naked eye, mosquito nets, metal stakes and chicken wire. In the middle, a giant ball of crumpled cellophane paper... This is the first chance in Spain to see many works by the Brazilian artist Cildo Meireles, who says: "I like to think of art in terms that are not limited to the visual."
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BAMAKO: 7TH AFRICAN PHOTOGRAPHY MEETING AT CENTRE DE CULTURA CONTEMPORANIA DE BARCELONA
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The Bamako festival, now in its 7th edition, was launched in order to present in the West an overview of contemporary African photography, a particularly outstanding artistic medium in Africa, which is only beginning to receive the wider critical attention it deserves. The photographers in this year's festival are: Serge Emmanuel Jongué, Nontsikelelo "Lolo" Veleko, Maazouz Azamour, Samuel Fosso, Marie-Ange Bordas, and Andrew Tshabangu. The festival also includes a tribute to the late Serge Jongué, one of Africa's foremost photographersm and a solo show by Samuel Fosso (below). 
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CLEMENS VON WEDEMEYER AND MAYA SCHWEIZER AT CGAC, SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
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The relationship between spectator and film is the core theme of Von Wedemeyer and Schweizer's exhibition and the connecting theme behind the five pieces included in the show - from 'Rien de Tout', exploring the casting process for a Beckett play in a Parisian suburb as a way to reveal the fine line separating reality and fiction, to a documentary-remake of Fritz Lang's legendary 'Metropolis' set in present day Shanghai. 
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JERRY SALTZ DINES AT LEGENDARY RESTAURANT EL BULLI
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Eating at El Bulli is less dinner than performance art. Adrià seems to me a Picasso of food, having moved beyond classical cuisine into another realm. (Although to top off the session, he whipped up the best traditional seafood lunch I've ever had, remarking, "In order to do what I do, you first have to be able to do this.") Adrià looks and acts like Picasso too: about the same height and build, with wild dark eyes and palpable sexual energy. I half-expected to see him parading on the beach in his underpants. (Even his restaurant's name evokes Picasso's bulls.) The self-taught Adrià makes you understand why there's never been a 10-year-old prodigy in art or food, unlike music or math. With art and food you need your body; you need knowledge of sex and death. All art penetrates us one way or another, food explicitly. 
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NANCY SPERO AT MACBA, BARCELONA
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Long an active voice in contemporary political and feminist art, Nancy Spero is having her first major retrospective right now in Barcelona. The exhibition includes a wide range of material, from early work from her studies at the Art Institute of Chicago to recent presentation at the 2007 Venice Biennale.
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'EVERSTILL/SIEMPRETODAVIA' IN GRANADA, SPAIN
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International supercurator Hans Ulrich Obrist turns his eyes to the open-ended nature of poetry. 'Everstill/siempretodavia', his new project at the Lorca House Museum in Granada, facilitates a new set of dialogues between contemporary art and ghosts of the very real past and real spaces of the Spanish poet, writes Lupe Nunez-Fernandez.
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FOTONOVIEMBRE 2007
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Preceding the visual vastness of this year's Paris Photo (15 Nov), Fotonoviembre's ninth edition shows the small biennial finding its own momentum, writes Lupe Nunez-Fernandez.
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'WEATHER REPORT' AT CAAM, CANARY ISLANDS
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One of the most memorable examples of the current trend for eco-art-manifestos is this show currently on view, to 16 Sept 2007, at CAAM, presenting the art exhibit not so much as spectacular phenomenon as potential activism, writes Lupe Nunez-Fernandez.
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CALL FOR ENTRIES: CASTELLON COUNTY COUNCIL ANNOUNCES PAINTING PRIZE
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The Castellon County Council has announced the IV Edition of its International Painting Prize, which supports and promotes the emergence of new talents on the contemporary art scene. The competition is dedicated to "expanded painting" - the relationship and interaction of painting with other media such as photography, video, installation, sculpture or new technologies. The deadline for entries is 30 September. 
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'PENSA/PIENSA/THINK' AT CENTRE D'ART SANTA MONICA, BARCELONA
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Team-curated by Montse Badia, Ferran Barenblit, Jacob Fabricius, and Frederic Montornes, a show at Barcelona's Centre d'Art Santa Monica sets out to change the way audiences approach the traditional exhibition space, proposing the possibility of an intuitive, expanded understanding of the thinking that goes on behind the institute's activities.
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LOOP VIDEO ART FAIR, BARCELONA
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Until 3 June Barcelona is hosting an ambitious and 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, gallery owners, collectors, critics, museum directors and lovers of video art. 
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'DREAM PHOTOGRAPHY' AT CAMARA OSCURA, MADRID
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This group show features the work of Maria Castello, Ted Partin and Damian Ucieda, three young photographers whose respective artistic preoccupations present a contemporary wish for what the truth of the medium could be: more with the art of lying than with the truth.
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'ART, THEATRE AND ITS DOUBLE' AT MACBA
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Still time to sign up for a month-long conference on art and theatre's love affair - the perfect warm up to Macba's upcoming major exhibition, 'A theatre without theatre', 25 May - 11 Sept 2007, on visual art's changing relation to theatricality through the 20th century.
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TODAY'S WORLD IN TWENTY PHOTOGRAPHY BOOKS, AT MUSAC, LEON
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In its carefully selected and designed display and in the variety of the material collected, the 'Proyecto Vitrinas' is a reflection on the state of the medium and its capacity to encompass critique and documentary at the same time. Lupe Nunez-Fernandez picks a handful of highlights from among the lot (pic: from Geert van Kesteren's 'Why Mister, Why? Iraq 2003-04').
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MANOLO LAGUILLO AT MACBA, BARCELONA
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Don't miss the current Manolo Laguillo exhibition at Macba, Barcelona, a chance to consider ideas of environment and visuality within the context of a body of work that for three decades has pursued most of all the question of spatial representation.
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LEE BUL: ASEPTIA AT DOMUS ARTIUM (DA2), SALAMANCA
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Lee Bul (1964, Yongwol, South Korea) is one of the most promising Korean artists whose prolific practice encompasses drawing, painting, video, sculpture and installation. For her first solo exhibition in Spain, she presents a selection of works from 1999 to the present, including nine new works produced especially for this show: two new Cyborg sculptures, one new Anagram, a figurative crystal sculpture, and a suite of five drawings. 
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JANET CARDIFF & GEORGE BURES MILLER AT MACBA, BARCELONA
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Since the early nineties Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller have been collaborating on installation works in which they combine sound, voice and images. This exhibition presents ten installations which combine fictional stories and sound effects, contrasting the sense of hearing with the sense of sight. 
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BIANCA BRUNNER IN MADRID AND PASADENA
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Bianca Brunner's enigmatically simple photographic compositions reflect on the power of sudden, momentary absorption to arrest and change our experience of daily life - characters and sets embodying an uncannily hypnotic aesthetic.
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CLARE E ROJAS AT MUSAC, LEON
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'I want all women to be able to walk into my space and not be bombarded with imagery that has negative value to her.' The American artist Clare E Rojas, whose first solo show in Spain is on until 4 March, draws on the American folk tradition often to address female social concerns, connecting her work to the feminist tradition of the 1970s and artists such as Miriam Schapiro and Judy Chicago. 
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'SHORT HISTORIES OF CINEMA, II', AT MACBA, BARCELONA
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"Imagine an eye free of the laws of perspective created by Man, an eye not influenced by composed logic, an eye that does not respond to the names of things, but that understands each new object it discovers in life through a perceptional adventure." Catch this series of screenings of experimental cinema dedicated to children, today (pictured: still from early film by Mary Ellen Bute)
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LETTRIST FILM SERIES AT MACBA, BARCELONA
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Although Letterism and the movement's corresponding cinematographic area have been the object of interest, study and reappraisal over the past few years - not only in France but also in Italy and the USA - they continue to be comparatively one of the lesser-known avant-garde movements -- but thanks to MACBA in Barcelona, we can now revisit a whole group of rare and influential films, through 1 December.
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LOOP '06, part 2
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Some images from the first day of this year's video art fair in Barcelona. |
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LOOP '06
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Tonight, you could spot the usual art crowd suspects sitting either at the tribute to Nam June Paik at the Casa Asia, at the inaugural El Bulli-sponsored dinner or the perhaps sweating through the sold-out Barcelona debut of Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9.
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