Casademont (1928-1994) was a key figure in Spanish visual culture during the postwar period. As for photography, he served as director of the Aixelá de Barcelone and the magazine Imagen y sonido. He was the ideologue and champion of the young generation of photographers who, ...

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It was in 1840 that the first work of photography was published in Spain: the Panorama óptico-artístico de las Islas Baleares with 39 lithographs produced from daguerreotypes by Francisco Muntaner. The year 1885 saw the first work of photo reportage, shot by Heribert Mariezcu...

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It was in the 1970s that we first recognized the important role that photography had played as a means of expression and communication throughout history. Once again it is well represented in the artworld, receiving increasing coverage in magazines like ArtForum, Art in America, Fl...

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Founded in 1973, the Fundació Lluís Carulla works to promote the language, culture and values that define Catalan society, with the aim of strengthening a sense of belonging. The Fundació Lluís Carulla stems from an initiative undertaken by Lluís Carulla Canals, at a time when...

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The Open Society Foundations has just opened a two-story gallery in New York , in the Argonaut Building on 57th street. The place recalls the original mission of the OSC: combatting the consequences of post-communism across the world, thus following in the wake of Jason and hi...

17.06.2013[ read full story ]

The future art museum of the Universidad de Navarra –currently under construction and that will be inaugurated in autumn 2014- aims to establish a true bridge between the University and society. This will be the case even be from a geographical point of view, as it will be situated...

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He was born in Madrid to a famous family of silversmiths and goldsmiths, Plata Meneses. In July 1936, they were surprised by the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War while in Biarritz, where they spent summers, and so they moved to Paris. When Second World War began, their “summer vacation” wen...

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La Fábrica (“The Factory”) is a “machine” for launching cultural projects. We work in the world of art, literature and cinema for the largest Spanish cultural projects. We are private enterprise of 36 professionals who think and create culture. We began in 1995, at a time of chan...

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This publishing house founded in 1965 by Sigfried Blume, father of its current director, Leopoldo Blume. We met at their headquarters, a lovely modernist home in the hills above Barcelona. The initial guiding principle behind the publishing house was the transmission of knowledge...

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Hubert de Wangen, owner and manager of Kowasa, was born on October 10, 1938. A French national, he has resided in Barcelona for over 35 years. He spoke with us about his story and his establishment: The bookstore has existed since 1986, which started from my private collection o...

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