Different styles, techniques, ways of understanding art, all in the hands of great masters and writers trying to break into the market. That is what gives the first edition of the Barcelona Gallery Weekend, an event that takes place between 1 and 4 October.
The initiative is based on four routes by galleries as well as by institutions and unique spaces. There are a total of 40 centers which collect all kinds of activities, always linked with the historical vanguards and the most contemporary creation. The starting point will be a big party that will begin tomorrow at 19 am at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA). The center will be open to the city until midnight, constituting a unique opportunity to make a nocturnal visit to his current exhibitions.
It is an initiative in which Art Barcelona, responsible for the event, has been working since two years ago and “from the beginning it has attracted interest in the gallery sector, including in galleries that are not of this association.”
From the point of view of the world of artistic gallerism, “Barcelona was very stop and had been difficult to find a consensus initiative taking, which was what we were asking the government “, said yesterday the gallery owner Joan Anton Maragall.
In this first edition, Barcelona Weekend Gallery gallery has 21 participants which will be shown at major international names like Antonio Lopez, Matt Mullican and Mladen Stilinovic, through more rooted to the Catalan capital as Antoni Llena, Daniel G. Andújar and Rogelio López Cuenca proposals.
Nor They will be missing the riskiest exposures, such as those in which have names like Bouchra Khalili and Matt Madden, as well as emerging as Angel Marcos, Diego Pujal and Ruth Moran.
The historical avant-garde will be present with proposals by artists of the stature of Joaquin Torres-Garcia, coinciding with his retrospective at the MoMA in New York, and Alberto Magnelli and Fausto Melotti, in dialogue with Joan Miró. In other group exhibitions are on view works by Alexander Calder, Juan Gris, Salvador Dalí, Miquel Barceló, Carlos Pazos and Antoni Miralda. A weekend by and for art.
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