Barcelona. This Month's Choices

Cine Ambigú in Apolo. March

2006-03-13T11:13:00.000+01:00

PROGRAM (100.000 retinas)

MAT'I SYN (MOTHER AND SON)
de Aleksandr Sokurov. Rusia/Alemania, 1997. 79 min.
Cast: Gudrun Geyer, Alexei Ananischnov.
7th March. 20:30 y 22:30h

LOS QUE ME QUIEREN COGERÁN EL TREN (CEUX QUI M'AIMENT PRENDRONT LE TRAIN)
Patrice Chéreau. Francia, 1998. 123 min.
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Vincent Perez, Guillaume Canet, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Pascal Greggory, Charles Berling, Bruno Todeschini, Roschdy Zem, Dominique Blanc.
César Awards: Best Director, Best Supporting Actress and Best Photography.
14th March. 20:30 y 22:30h

STATUS YO!
Till Hastreiter. Alemania, Suiza, 2004. 123 min.
Cast: Sera Finale, Yang Eq, Jamie, Pepi, Sässion, Yesim.
Berlinale 2004, Forum.
21st March. 20:00 y 22:30h

BRØDRE (HERMANOS)
Susanne Bier. Dinamarca, 2004. 110 min.
Cast: Connie Nielsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Bent Mejding, Solbjørg Højfeldt, Laura Bro, Niels Olsen, Sarah Juel Werner, Rebecca Løgstrup Soltau.
Concha de plata Best Actor and Best Actress, San Sebastián 2004.
World Dramatic Audience Award, Sundance 2005.
28th March. 20:30 y 22:30h

Rommy Schneidder at Hartmann Gallery. Until April 17th

2006-03-10T08:23:00.000+01:00

The Hartmann gallery is showing a fascinating photographic session of the legendary actress Romy Schneider.

Spanish photographer César Lucas captured Schneider during her filming of the little-known movie 10:30PM Summer. Based on the Marguerite Duras novel, the film was shot in Segovia, and Lucas took some 40 images of Schneider surrounded by her co-stars Peter Finch, Melina Mercouri, director Jules Dassin and the book's author herself. (via Expatica)

Hartmann - C/ Sta Teresa, 8 bajos - Until Arpil 17th - Free entrance

Plaza George Orwell

2006-02-25T00:55:00.000+01:00

Ironically, the George Orwell Plaza in Barcelona, Spain is constantly under the “watchful eye” of a CCTV system. If you ever have read Orwell’s book, 1984 you know what I am talking about. (Vía we-make-money-not-art.com)

Photos of Casa Mila

2006-02-24T13:42:00.000+01:00

Also known as La Pedrera, Casa Milà is one of Antonio Guadi's architectural masterpieces.

At one time it served as a collection of luxurious apartments for Barcelona's elite, but today exists as a museum. Built in the very early 1900's, it is a monument to 20th century Modernism. It sits on Passeig de Gràcia in central Barcelona, a few blocks north Plaza Catalunya. These photos were taken in January 2005.

Photos of Casa Mila

The revelations of Diane Arbus, at the CaixaForum. February 15th - May 14th

2006-02-23T12:58:00.000+01:00

The exhibition, "Diane Arbus Revelations", on at the CaixaForum, is the first international, and most complete, retrospective look at the work of this photographer.

There are around 200 photographs including some of the most well-known by this artist, from private and public collections from around the world, with many of the pieces on display for the first time. The exhibition, which also shows her method and what influenced her work, has been on at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Folkwang Museum in Essen and at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. (via bcn.es)

CaixaFòrum - Av Marquès de Comillas, 6 - February 15th to May 14th - Free entrance (monday close)

Asian Portraits by Pierre Gonnord. Until April 16th

2006-02-23T12:57:00.000+01:00

Casa Asia opens an exhibition on Pierre Gonnord, with a selection of 27 photographies dedicated to Asian models, focused on exclusion and marginality against the mainstream.

The series of portraits starts in 2001 and finishes in 2005 with "Sebastian", an Indian migrant in Paris. The series starts in 2001 in New York, except "Bright Orange" from 1999, and reaches its peak level in Japan, during Gonnord´s stay in 2003, where the major portraits, shown in Casa Asia, were shot. This series might not be considered a closed series of photographies, because Gonnord will continue portraying Asian models, not only in Asia, but also in cities which have grown from big Diasporas, induced by migration movements from Eastern countries to Western countries.

Pierre Gonnord from his beginnings has been attracted by the strength of expression that can be detected in the faces of certain people, sometimes excluded, whose existence is kept in the look of the model used by the photographer, who helps us find ourselves when the truth of human beings is hinted at.

Asian Portraits make up a series that adds to the work the artist regularly develops turning photography into a kind of writing. Asian Portraits, the name of this collection, constitutes a compact group of images, whose individuality makes them inimitable. The generated impact comes from the immobility of the model and from the projection of the subject, which transforms it into a symbolic figure. (via asia art archive)

Casa Asia - Av. Diagonal 373 - Until April 16th - Free entrance

Una passió Suïssa. Collection M+M. Auer Eexhibition. To March 18th

2006-02-22T12:57:00.000+01:00

The exhibition, at the Foto Colectania foundation, has 83 photographs selected from the private collection of Michel and Michelle Auer, which is one of the best collections in the world.

The exhibition is centred on all related to books, magazines and documents, and displays key pieces in the history of photography, by artists including Brassaï, Man Ray, Cartier-Bresson and Lewis W. Hine. Michel and Michelle Auer met in 1974 and their love of collecting and photography encouraged them to start a collection, which, thirty years later, is the most important in Switzerland, and one of the main collections in the world. (via bcn.es)

Fundació Privada Foto Colectania - C/ Julián Romea, 6 - End date: 18/March/2006 - Free

Cine Ambigú in Apolo

2006-02-21T23:56:00.000+01:00

PROGRAM (100.000 retinas)

A PERFECT DAY
Joana Hadjithomas y Khalil Joreige. Francia, Líbano, Alemania, 2005. 88 min.
Intérpretes: Ziad Saad, Julia Kassar, Alexandra Kahwagi.
In colaboration with "Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijón"
7 february. 20:30 y 22:30h

ULTRANOVA
Bouli Lanners. Bélgica/Francia, 2004. 86 min.
Intérpretes: Vincent Lecuyer, Hélène de Reymaeker, Marie du Bled, Michaël Abiteboul, Vicent Berlogey, Viviane Robert.
Berlinale 2005, Panorama.
Premio Principado de Asturias, Gijón 2005.
14 february. 20:30 y 22:30h

GESPENSTER (GHOSTS)
Christian Petzold. Alemania/Francia, 2004. 85 min.
Intérpretes: Julia Hummer, Sabine Timoteo, Marianne Basler, Aurélien Recoing, Benno Fürmann, Anna Schudt.
Berlinale 2005, Sección Oficial.
21 february. 20:30 y 22:30h

HUKKLE
György Pálfi. Hungría, 2002. 75 min.
Intérpretes: Ferenc Bandi, Józsefné Rácz, József Farkas, Ferenc Nagy.
28 february. 20:30 y 22:30h

Malucos Flamenco. February 14th - 26th

2006-02-21T12:56:00.000+01:00

The Versus Theatre is different, and not because I say it. Many of the companies coming in need to adjust to it and far from disappointing them they see it as an enriching experience. Malucos danza adjusts… and how! No artistic pretensions attempting to explain a complicated story.

They’re after something else. They try to convey emotion to the audience or at least cause some sort of good or bad feeling with their performance. With ‘Malucos flamenco’ these two emotions will surely be alternated, since the show goes through several phases represented by madness, egocentric, consumerist, sexist and some other –ist ending black together with innocent, childish, giggly white… As well as paying homage to Camaron and Paco Cruz’s flamenco guitar. (via le cool)

Versus Teatre - C/ Castillejos 179 - February 14th to 26th - Entrance: 16€

Versus Electronics @ Distrito Diagonal. SOLAR X. February 26th

2006-02-20T15:24:00.000+01:00

spa.RK presents a new VERSUS ELECTRONICS edition with the live of SOLAR X, well known for his releases on HYMEN (incredible his 2002 maxi "Chanel n?303), ART-TEK (his own label, through it he presented russian artists such as Eu and Novel 23), or contributions to Worm Interface and Deflective. First visit to Spain: not to be missed!

Opening the nite, METROPOL from Barcelona label Lovethechaos and master of Politronic website, and ZERO (Immolate Records), one of the best Spanish djs.

SOLAR X (Art-Tek / Hymen / Rusia) live!
METROPOL (Lovethechaos / BCN) live!
Zero (Immolater/ BCN)

Distrito Diagonal - Diagonal 442 - Sunday february 26th. 21h - 6 eur

In pictures: Barcelona 3GSM show

2006-02-20T11:09:00.000+01:00

BBC has a nice collection of pictures of the Barcelona 3GSM show. Included is the 3rd Nokia clamshell phone.

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