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Culture | 15/09/2021

Four galleries of The Hospitalet participate in the seventh edition of Barcelona Gallery Weekend

Centers of Key Art Room, Foundation Arranz-Bravo and TPK program exhibitions coinciding with the Gallery

Of the 15 in the 19 September the seventh edition of Barcelona is celebrated Gallery Weekend (BGW) with a program of exhibitions, guided visits, talks, presentations and other activities in which 33 galleries tell, record figure of participants, and more 70 artist. The goal is to pass the citizenship the contemporary art, to foster the collecting and to highlight the paper of the galleries like spaces generative of culture.

In The Hospitalet the galleries Ana Mas Projects, Nogueras Blanchard, etHall and Joy that exhibitions have programmed and several activities about the samples participate. The Cultural Center Room Key, the Foundation Arranz Bravo and TPK also participate in the event and act the season of autumn with new exhibitions.

The BGW is opened on 15 September at 17 hours, simultaneously in all participant galleries, which have also programmed several activities about the exhibitions like the activation of the sound installation Phantom Islands to Ana Mas Projects; the conversation with Joaquín García, commissioner of the exhibition "The fate of the restitution. Pepe Espaliú (and Alberto Cardín) "in Nogueras Blanchard; the conversation with the artist Enrico Della Torre about its exhibition installed in the Joy Gallery, or the presentation "5 texts for 5 spaces" in the gallery etHall. On days 18 and 19 will be made I ARCH THEM Gallery Walk, routes guided by the four galleries of The Hospitalet that participates. The activities and visits are free with previous booking through the agenda of the BGW .

Exhibitions in THE Hospitalet

The gallery Ana Mas Projects shows the exhibition "Watori", the first monographic one in Spain of the native artist Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe (Shroana, Venezuela, 1971). Its work approaches subjects intimately tied with the environment and imaginary of its community, the oral memory, the rites and the beliefs and the ancestral traditions; but also with its sensitive experience like apart from the yanomami people and of the worry from the ecosystem in which he lives. The sample collects a selection of drawings about paper made among 2015 and 2020.

The gallery Nogueras Blanchard opens the sample "The fate of the Alberto Cardín / Pepe Espaliú restitution to Barcelona (and Alberto Cardín)". This exhibition retrieves the works carried out by Espaliú during the years that it lived in Barcelona and an absolutely fictitious story between them and some texts of Alberto Cardín constructs, translator, writer, anthropologist, philosopher and essayist. Pepe Espaliú arrives to Barcelona in 1971, an effervescent city in which it will consist until 1976 and where it will enter in touch with an artistic scene that will be fundamental for the evolution of its work. In 1973, Alberto Cardín settles in Barcelona, where the rest of its life will live permanently, sharing actively the cultural and intellectual life of the city; contemporary Spaniard was one of the most important persons in the origins of the literature LGTBI.

"Four walls", of the artist Luz Broto, an element that in spite of sorting out, it can not stop pointing out is the proposal of the gallery etHall for Barcelona Gallery Weekend, a specific intervention for the space of the gallery, constructed from its structural elements, and that questions the function of the wall in an inner space, what there is in a side and the other one.

Enrico Della Torre sets forth "Cut Outs Paintings" in room To of the Joy gallery, paintings that they examine the possibilities of the pictorial space, the present and latent elements of the picture. The relation between the structure and the spontaneity, the minimalist and expressionist attitude, the rigor of the monochrome rectangle and the freedom of a few gestures with great dificulty sketched. The room B accommodates "Interface", the portraits created by the Belgian artist Julien Meert.

The Cultural Center Room Key opens Wednesday, 15 September, the exhibition "Out of any place", the first retrospective one dedicated itself to Vicens Vacca, one of the artists of reference of the sound art to Catalonia, with a selection of fifteen works that go since the decade of the eighties until the present. The exhibition includes more than 35 years of the trajectory of the artist, started in the middle of the eighties, that he has experienced with the incidence of the sound in the middle artistic. Productions are included as a universal Literature (1986), an action with the pressing and shearing of a car full of books; the sound work History of the music (1996); Zero copy (2014-2016), in which the authorship of the work of art is questioned, or Zen (2016-2018) and Grand Hall Lamento (2013), sound apps for mobile telephones, among other.

Open exhibition until the 9th January. Of Tuesday on Saturday, from 11 to 14 hr and from 17 to 20 hr Sundays and festive days, from 11 to 14 hr working Mondays, fence.

The Foundation Arranz-Bravo opens the public the sample "Arranz-Bravo" on the 15th. Present continuum", an exhibition dedicated itself to its more current work. Through a selection of paintings, sculptures and work about paper, the sample celebrates 80 years of the artist and the present artistic moment of one of the living Catalan painters more relevant of the generation of the sixties, that it is in full activity.

Open exhibition until the 21st November. Of Thursday on Saturday, from 17 to 20 hr, and Sundays and festive days, of 11 to 14 hr

TPK shows the book and the exhibition of drawings of Agustín Fructuoso Autoretrats in time of confinement. During the confinement and in the face of the impossibility about going to its workshop, the artist proposed himself to make a self-portrait daily until the disposable paper exhausted itself for him at home his. 62 drawings that have caused the publication of a book and an exhibition are the result of the selfproposal. A project that has a solidary goal, the benefits of the sale of books and drawings will be destined for the association AFANOC (Association of Relatives and Friends of Oncològics Children of Catalonia).

The exhibition is open until the 24th October with concerted visits through telephone 615 535 105.

You can consult the complete programming to the web page of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend .