UNORDINARY OBJECTS: Laia Amigó & Alicia Voguel for ARTNOU 2022 in LAB36

UN-ORDINARY OBJECTS proposes an exhibition proposal linked to the home, everyday life and the functionality of objects . A reinterpretation of everyday objects and home furnishings that aims to highlight their own functions, as well as the relationship (in itself) that is established between these objects and the subject.

At LAB36 starting Thursday, June 30

Alícia Vogel and Laia Amigó are the digital native generation, from the last millennials and, despite this, when they represent the home they select non-technological objects: a clock with hands, a lamp with a plug… Objects that could be dragging from the houses that saw them born. No reference to technology.

As if everything technological was understood and there was no longer any need to mention it, because it is innate. A curious vision of the reality that coexists, transgeneration is no longer a matter of being digital or not, analog or not, but of which are the objects with which you identify, which are the ones that turn a space into a home to live in , where to share life and personalize it, individualize it.

Granada, 1996 (@laiaamigoayats) Laia Amigó, & Olot, 1991 (@aliciavogelvogel) Alícia Vogel.

These pieces, produced from technical experimentation, break with the traditional materiality of objects. The fragility of ceramics is perfect to point out that the times they live in these homes are also ephemeral. The functionality of the pieces is not lost, but their composition is a provocation: Why are homes made? The experimentation process has resulted in the production of pieces that invite us to rethink our surroundings.

Thanks to an almost sculptural language, the two young artists living in Barcelona resignify the spaces of the domestic environment and build pieces full of symbolism. Always hanging by a thread, without stable ties and only ideas that are transportable from one space to another, and at each stop a candle around which that nondescript space becomes the meeting point.

Opening, 06.30.2022 – 19hrs

Carrer de Trafalgar, 36 – 08010 – BCN

MAPPLETHORPE at the Castell de Peralada Festival 2022

LOVE AS THEIR ONLY LEGACY

Hadrian, the second incursion into the world of opera of musical genius Rufus Wainwright, is coming to the Castell de Peralada Festival.

In an interpretation completely different to the one seen in the work’s premiere at Opera Canada in 2018 performed by the Canadian Opera Company, Hadrian comes to Peralada under the stage direction of Jorn Weisbrodt, stripped of scenery and many singers, to make way for a certain radicalisation and the visual emotional expression of the intrinsic dramatic quality inherent to opera.

With a narrative built on images by Robert Mapplethorpe, the spectator experiences the tensions and tumults of the characters, at the same time as they learn the story of a defeated emperor who at one time had it all, deprived of the one thing that he truly desired.

Wainwright tells a new story to the contemporary audience using melody, harmony, profound emotion, arias and ensemble scenes, through his own instantly recognisable Rufus-Wainwrightian sound and melodies.

The libretto, work of celebrated dramatist Daniel MacIvor, lays out the story of the love between Emperor Hadrian and his young lover Antinous, drowned in the river Nile in mysterious circumstances. With the voices of Ainhoa Arteta, Thomas Hampson, Xabier Anduaga, Rubén Amoretti and Vanessa Goikoetxea in the principal roles and the solid musical foundation of the Teatro Real with Scott Dunn on the podium, this universal, inclusive love story is coming to Peralada: Friday, July the 29th at 10PM.

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JORDI BERNADÓ presents ID PROJECT at the National Museum

The Museu Nacional de Catalunya will present in the Oval Room a photographic project by the artist Jordi Bernadó that proposes a series of portraits of characters apparently unrelated to each other, united only by the dialogue with the camera and by the answer to a single question:

What is your place in the world?

Opening: Wednesday, June 15, 2022 at 7:30 p.m.

Venue: Oval Room

Images of setup
Images of setup

Some of these characters are famous figures: authors, filmmakers, politicians, activists. They all stand with their backs to the camera, tiny and unrecognizable.

Those portrayed – Jimmy Wales, Stephen Hawking, Ferran Adrià, Rosario Quispe, Pedro Opeka, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Gretchen Cara Daily, Nada Al-Ahdal, Woody Allen, Muhammad Yunus, Gao Xingjian, Steven Pinker, Vivian Gornick and Reed Brody – chose where the photograph had to be taken.

Based on the construction of a heterogeneous and fragmented map, the photographer explores human identity, what supposedly makes us unique.

This project addresses issues of great relevance today, such as the climate, biodiversity or human rights, and which are also central issues in the museum’s work. 

The portraits that are part of this project were made in the location chosen by the portrayed characters and each one is a repository of memories and stories.

The artist starts from the idea that “we all have a place in the world, a place to love, long for, return to”. In this case, the meaning of each setting is captured in the photograph, but it is not revealed. It is a secret between the protagonist and the artist. Thus, like the pieces of a puzzle, each image tells a unique story, the story of a character, a place, a photograph, but together they form a complete file. 

From June 15 to September 4, 2022