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Chris Ware: Drawing is Thinking

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Chris Ware Exhibition at CCCB Drawing is Thinking

Chris Ware is one of the most innovative artists in modern comic books. His drawings touch us because they deal with human existence with great depth. The exhibition reviews the work and artistic thinking of a central cartoonist.

Chris Ware (Omaha, Nebraska, 1967) has been drawing—or, as he says, writing with vignettes—since he was small. Ware has experimented and innovated with comic book language and narrative throughout his life: from sketchbooks, to the iconic frontpage covers of The New Yorker, to his three essential works: Jimmy Corrigan, Building Stories and Rusty Brown.

© Chris Ware

The exhibition invites us to take a chronological look at the work of a master of the comic strip, with original pieces, animations, objects and sculptures, highlighting Ware’s invention of language.

“Chris Ware. Drawing is Thinking” invites us into the creative universe of a meticulous, artisan, emotional artist, influenced by the origins of the comic book, ragtime music and architecture, who has brilliantly narrated human emotions, racism, consumerism and the effects of politics on everyday life. For Ware, “drawing is a way of thinking”, because drawing connects us with thought and memory.

Building a Comic-Book Story Set in Barcelona

The exhibition concludes with a collective creation space inspired by one of Chris Ware’s most iconic works, Building Stories, transferring the story to Barcelona. A huge storyboard of blank vignettes covers the walls. Anyone can draw actions, memories, dreams or details in them and take part in the construction of a story based on Ware’s techniques. A proposal of La Gossa comic school (Alfredo Borés and Berta Embún), with contributions by cartoonists Cristina Daura, Nadia Hafid, Sergi Puyol and Marc Torices.

The space also has a reading and rest area, and a library with a  selection of works by Ware and other works that have influenced him.

“Chris Ware has the ability to activate the reader’s gaze and give them a kind of superpower they didn’t know they had.”
Jordi Costa

Curators: Jordi Costa

Participants: Chris Ware, La Gossa

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Dream the City

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“Dream the City” exhibition at Palau Robert

The “Dream the City” exhibition is an initiative by Palau Robert, a centre affiliated with the Directorate-General for Dissemination of the Ministry of the Presidency. Curated by the architect Roger Subirà, it will be open until 11th June. The idea came about as a result of a series of conversations in difficult post-pandemic circumstances. The aim was to give a voice to a series of discourses in various areas of knowledge that were capable of generating optimism.

The various initiatives being carried out by architects and urban planners are rarely presented in non-specialised settings or environments outside the sector. However, imagining the future is the first step towards shaping it, and for this reason, the exhibition has been created based on a very clear premise – presenting images that help imagine a better urban future, banishing pessimism in order to gain or reshape the future.

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The exhibition’s theme was established based on this assumption: successive generations in the past have been able to imagine or dream urban futures, cities that were imagined and dreamed based on each generation’s value system. Today, despite the serious crises that affect us, undeniable values are emerging among the new generations. We have summarised these values in three revolutions which can be found in the exhibition’s three main rooms: a Green Revolution, a Digital Revolution and an Identity Revolution (gender, feminism, and inclusion).

Room One: Future cities of the past
A brief history of the cities dreamed of in the past will be presented in an immersive audiovisual display, on multiple screens and mirrors, with links to the values prevailing at each historical point in time. The images take us back to well-known, highly creative historical periods that become powerful graphics…

Room Two: Enough of dystopias!
A collage of images in a dark and disturbing setting presents a series of dystopian cities taken from the world of cinema, series and video games. The space’s design contributes to this unnerving effect, by means of experiences such as the smell of plastic and even dirt.

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3, 4 and 5th rooms, 3 revolutions: the Green Revolution, the Digital Revolution, and the Identity Revolution.
A new system of shared values with an immense capacity for transformation also emerges from this present full of challenges: respect for the environment and the fight against climate change, the immense possibilities that open up with new technologies, and the creation of social systems that integrate difference as an asset. New ideas are springing up all over the world that can help us dream of a better urban future, based on an optimism that is conscious but radical.

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Room Six: Garden for migratory species
The final room of the exhibition features a construction designed and produced ad hoc by TAKK Architecture (Mireia Luzárraga + Alejandro Muiño) called In transit, a garden for migratory species.

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Tiles and crafts exhibition

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Tiles and crafts. Contemporary artisan proposals. Exhibition at Centre d’Artesania Catalunya.

Craft tiles take up a prominent place in Catalan ceramics between the 17th and 19th centuries. The origin, as the name implies, can be found in the representation of the most common trades in Catalonia, which the ceramists reproduced based on auca pictures, engravings and prints. Due to their quality, they are considered the best among those in Europe and are highly valued by museums and collectors.

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Craft tiles are also a testament to popular history and life, when handicrafts were of great importance to society. Today, these square pieces, nearly fourteen inches on each side, with a white background and painted in various colours, display crafts that in some respects still persist. Today’s artisans, faithful to tradition but with a contemporary outlook, create innovative, daring and creative objects.

This exhibition aims to show the evolution of these trades, now in the process of change and updating in search of new forms of expression, which have adapted to the times seeking new audiences and generated functional proposals that satisfy new tastes of society, as well as outstanding designs and artistic proposals. The craftsman’s ability to complete the creative and productive process, and their knowledge of techniques and materials, gives the craft rare flexibility and adaptability in other areas of production.

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The ‘Tiles and crafts’ exhibition presents a selection of tiles from trades and schools in Barcelona preserved in the Barcelona’s Museum of Design, and contrasts them with various objects by outstanding artists of the current panorama who use craft techniques to materialise their projects. From the past to the present of the craft sector, objects bring us closer to worlds that are not so distant: that of the artisan, the artist or the designer. A continuity lies in the fine line that separates these disciplines, a line that new generations of artisans are increasingly blurring.
CURATOR
David Places
Isabel Fernández del Moral

Dates
21 / 02 / 2020 – 26 / 04 / 2020
Venue
Centre d’Artesania Catalunya
Carrer dels Banys Nous, 11,
08002 Barcelona

Opening times:
Mondays to Saturdays, 10 am – 8 pm;
Sundays, 10 am – 2 pm.

Victor Papanek exhibition

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Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design exhibition at DHUB

The exhibition Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design at the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, is the first big retrospective on the designer, author and activist Victor J. Papanek (1923-1998).

What role should design and designers play in the contemporary world to be truly useful to society? This question has been the focus of widespread debate in recent decades and a reflection made by Victor Papanek, a pioneer of contemporary design and one of the most influential harbingers of social activism and sustainability in design. The ideas and questions addressed by Papanek in the 1960s remain extremely relevant for design and constitute the essence of critical, social, inclusive and interdisciplinary design.

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Victor J. Papanek »Tetrakaidecahedral«, 1973-1975 (movable playground structure, designed with a student, parents, teachers and children) © University of Applied Arts Vienna,Victor J. Papanek Foundation

Papanek is the author of the book Design for the Real World (1971), still the most widely read book on design. The work is a call for inclusion, social justice and sustainability, topics which continue to be hugely relevant for design today.

This exhibition explores Papanek’s life and work through an extensive series of original, evocative pieces from the archive of the Victor Papanek Foundation and some objects from some of his contemporaries such as Buckminster Fuller and the radical group Global Tools, among others. Papanek’s ideas and their lasting impact can also be found in the 21st century in projects by various international designers and artists linked to the sphere of critical, social and activist design.

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Victor J. Papanek filming the WNED-TV Channel 17 programme Design Dimensions in Buffalo, NY (1961 – 1963). © University of Applied Arts Vienna, Victor J. Papanek Foundation

The display is organised by topics based on the work of Papanek and his contemporaries, including policy on data and the media, digital social structures, biotechnology, design methodology, sustainability and social inclusion with an underlying reflection: the importance of design as a political tool.

This exhibition is a cooperation between the Barcelona Design Museum and the Vitra Design Museum, in collaboration with the Victor J. Papanek Foundation, University of Applied Arts Vienna.

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Victor J. Papanek. We are all handicapped, section from Big Character Poster No. 1: Work Chart for Designers (1973, drafted in 1969). © University of Applied Arts Vienna, Victor J. Papanek Foundation

Keynote speech (Prof. Alison J. Clarke and Amelie Klein): October 30 th 2019 at 6 pm.
CURATOR
Alison Clarke (Victor J. Papanek Foundation, University of Applied Arts Vienna), Amelie Klein (Vitra Design Museum).

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Exhibition 22@_What?

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Exhibition 22@_What? How to achieve balance in Northern Poblenou, Barcelona.

On 18 July, the exhibition of Final Degree Projects (TFGs) by students from the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture, which this year is entitled 22@_What? How to achieve balance in Northern Poblenou, Barcelona, will open in the former textile factory Ca l’Alier, the current headquarters for the urban innovation centre BIT-Habitat.

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The exhibit will feature work by 10 final year Architecture students, who have put forward new architectural and urban planning proposals for 22@, an area that began a process of metamorphosis in the early 2000s in accordance with the “compact city” model, with housing, public facilities and high-quality green areas where residents could “work, live and learn”.

Divided into three workshops directed by lecturers Iñaki Baquero, Marta García-Orte, Mamen Domingo and Ernest Ferré, the students revisited the Barcelona 22@ Plan in efforts to address, through their architectural and urban planning projects, the concerns the project has raised in the 20 years since its implementation. With their projects, the students looked at ways to increase the sparse residential population of Northern Poblenou, remedy the fragmentation of the urban space and discontinuity of free spaces and mitigate the problem of gentrification that is causing many residents to leave the district. These interventions were undertaken by students, based on an urban project and its analysis as part of 22@ Barcelona in the previous year within the framework of projects they created for a subject called Urbanism 3. This subject was coordinated by lecturers Álvaro Cuéllar and Pere Vall.

During the event held to inaugurate the exhibition, experts involved in developing the Barcelona 22@ Plan and representatives from among the district’s inhabitants will take part in a discussion session aimed at promoting reflection on the district’s present and future situation. This open debate, which will take place at 6 p.m., will focus on aspects such as the need for new architectural proposals in the face of outmoded solutions and patterns and the appropriateness of involving the academic world in the restoration of areas that require greater flexibility and adaptability.

During the event, the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture Chair in Industrial Construction and the Environment (CEIM) Awards will also be handed out, in recognition of projects with the most innovative solutions in the area of sustainability. The event will also serve as a platform for the Schindler Elevators Accessibility Awards, which recognise the TFGs that best integrate the parameters of accessibility from an architectural perspective.

The exhibition will be organised in cooperation with BIT-Habitat and the Barcelona City Council, with sponsorship from the construction company Aislux.

Ca l’Alier – Pere IV, 362
UIC Barcelona School of Architecture

ESPAI BARÇA. Exposición

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A partir del dimecres 11 de maig es podrà visitar al Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya l’exposició Espai Barça: Concurs Nou Camp Nou i Nou Palau Blaugrana.

La mostra, organitzada amb el Futbol Club Barcelona, té per objectiu donar a conèixer tots els projectes finalistes. Així, l’exposició s’estructura en tres espais:

A l’espai arquitectes.cat de plaça Nova s’hi podrà veure el treball realitzat pels equips guanyadors, Pascual-Ausió Arquitectes + Nikken Sekkei i TAC Arquitectes + HOK, amb les maquetes respectives. Els altres projectes finalistes tenen el seu espai propi a l’Altell, on es podran veure les seves maquetes i imatges. Per als qui vulguin aprofundir més en la feina d’aquests equips, l’espai Picasso mostra més en detall el plantejament dels projectes, amb plànols, documentació, imatges, etc.

Finalistes Nou Camp Nou:

B720 Arquitectes + AECOM
BAAS Arquitectes + IDOM + BIG
Batlle i Roig Arquitectes + HKS + COX
Mateo Arquitectura + AFL
Mias Arquitectes + RCR Arquitectes + POPULOUS
OAB + GENSLER Sport
Pascual-Ausió Arquitectes + Nikken Sekkei
Ricardo Bofill Taller d’Arquitectura + Arup Sport

Finalistes Nou Palau Blaugrana:

Alonso Balaguer Riera Arquitectes + Wilkinson Eyre Architects
BCQ Arquitectes + Make
Francisco Mangado Arquitectos + Bach Arquitectes + R. Sanabria Arquitectes + I. Aparicio
GCA Arquitectes + GMP
Massip-Bosch Arquitectes + Pattern Architects
TAC Arquitectes + HOK

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