Exhibitions in the city
Jordi Blas. From Barrio Alto to Lavapiés
Rovira i Virgili University
Escorxador, s/n
43003 Tarragona
Tel. 977 256 581
segeu25@urv.cat
www.urv.cat/a_mes_estudiar/aula_art/index.html
22 April to 22 May
Monday to Friday 16 to 20 h
A first visit to Lisbon gave the artist both the vision and a series of experiences which, afterwards, seemed to have melted away, not to have existed. Jordi Blas later found the essence of Lisbon's Barrio Alto in another time and another place, in the Madrid suburb of Lavapiés. “It seemed strange to feel that kind of nostalgia in a place I had never visited before. My work is an amalgam of details and essences of both places.”
Jordi Bernadó & Carlos Ventós “…like Dubai”
COAC
Sant Llorenç, 20-22
43003 Tarragona
Tel. 977 249 367
tarragona@coac.cat
7 May to 15 June
Monday to Friday 8 to 15 h
The photographers Jordi Bernadó and Carlos Ventós take an analytical look and capture the phenomen of Dubai.
Mariano Vargas “Soltanto Madonna”
Art Gallery ARTGN
Santa Anna, 18
43003 Tarragona
Tel. 977 220 588
www.artgn.es
7 May to 5 July
Tuesday to Friday 17 to 20.30 h
Saturday 11 to 14 h and 17 to 20.30 h
Sunday 11 to 14 h
The work of Mariano Vargas is a portrayal of angelical young people exhibiting their eroticism, with a sensual nod towards the iconography of the renaissance.
“The cry”
Abelardo Castellet, Lluc Queralt, José Luis Rosado, Pau Gavaldà, Margarida Alberic and Silvia Iturria in collaboration with Núria Rión, Aitor Sebelón, Toni Navarro, Jordi Domènech and Cha Blasco.
Commissioned by: Toni Navarro
Espai Pep Escoda
Comte, 8
43003 Tarragona
Tel. 616 658 322
info@pepescoda.com
www.pepescoda.com
8 to 17 May
Monday to Thursday 18 to 20 h
Friday and Saturday by appointment only
Cridar
[c. 1200; d'un ll. vg. *critare (cl. quiritare), íd., potser relacionat amb Quĭrīs, -ītis 'quirite', d'on 'cridar auxili als ciutadans o quirites']
1 intr Parlar molt alt. Ja et pots escarrassar cridant: ningú no t'escolta.
2 intr Fer sentir una protesta, un clam. Cridar contra els usurers. Cridar contra un abús.
Gran diccionari de la llengua catalana
Cry
[Middle English crien, from Anglo-French crier, from Latin quiritare to make a public outcry, perhaps from Quirit-, Quiris, Roman citizen.13th century]
1 to utter loudly
2 to proclaim publicly
Merriam Webster Dictionary
“Death is frowned upon”
Abelardo Castellet, Lluc Queralt, José Luís Rosado, Pau Gavaldà, Joan Alberich, Margarida Alberich,
Pep Escoda, Sílvia Iturria, Aitor Sebelón, Toni Navarro, Jordi Domènech and Cha Blasco.
Commissioned by: Toni Navarro
Fundació Rosselló
Baixada Peixateria, 27, baixos
43003 Tarragona
Tel. 653 942 887
info@fundaciorossello.com
www.fundaciorossello.com
8 May to 8 June
Monday to Sunday 18 to 20 h
Empty rolls of film are objects which we tend to reject, to keep in our memory chests, never to be seen again. They are never considered to be works of art, nor do they form part of the great photographic collections. However the tragic essence of their end reminds us of the last spirit of the image, diluted in a furious burst of light.
“First step towards an unsure future” Marta Bosquet, Lena Rovira
Exhibition by the two finalists in the competition organised by Coordinació Territorial de Joventut..
Organised by: Secretaria de Joventut.
Coordinació Territorial a Tarragona
Refugi 2 del Moll de Costa
Port de Tarragona. Passeig de l’Escullera, s/n
43004 Tarragona
Tel. 977 920 177
programes.tgn@gencat.cat
8 to 17 May
Tuesday to Saturday10 to 14 h and 17 to 20 h
Marta Bosquet Muncunill “Horizons”
Non-places are indifferent spaces, spaces of prepackaged consumer leisure time, of just passing through, of acceleration.
Kleenex spaces. Spaces that don’t leave a mark on our lives. Spaces that do not feed our imagination. Naked spaces. Cold. Spaces crowded with people. Depersonalised spaces. Spaces of solitude. Existential. Profound.
Irreversible.
Lena Rovira Ferrer “The Electrical Point. A poetic gesture towards empty spaces in a given moment.”
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“Through your eyes”
Collective Exhibition of the Casal l’Amic Foundation
Organised by: Secretaria de Joventut.
Tarragona Coordinació Territorial and Casal l’Amic Foundation
Refugi 2 del Moll de Costa
Port de Tarragona.
Passeig de l’Escullera, s/n
43004 Tarragona
Tel. 977 920 177
programes.tgn@gencat.cat
8 to 17 May
Tuesday to Saturday 10 to 14 h and 17 to 20 h
This exhibition shows how photography can be used as a tool to develop the creative and critical thinking of a group of young people from the suburbs of Ponent de Tarragona, allowing self expression and interaction with the environment.
Pieter Hugo “Selected Works”
Organised by: Tarragona City Council Cultural Department
Commissioned by: Chantal Grande
Tinglado 2
Moll de Costa del Port de Tarragona
43004 Tarragona
http://tinglado2.tarragona.cat
8 May to 5 July
Tuesday to Saturday 10 to 13 h and 17 to 20 h
Sundays and bank holidays 11 to 14 h
“In all Hugo’s work so far, the themes of dominance, codependence and submission have been the disconcerting source of power of his images. This supports his absolutely unique and captivating perspective on contemporary Africa and its infinite complexity, and on photography itself.”
Fragment of text by Aaron Schuman from the catalogue Selected Works of Pieter Hugo in Tinglado 2.
“Images 2008”
Organised by: CaixaTarragona Foundation
Vestibule of CaixaTarragona Auditorium
Pere Martell, 2
43005 Tarragona
Tel. 977 299 224
fundacio@caixatarragona.es
30 March to 3 May
Monday to Friday 10 to 20 h
The ninth edition of the photojournalism exhibition “Images”, a compilation of photographs of the most important events of the news of 2008 in Catalonia. All the work shown has already been published in the media.
Robert Vilaplana “Hof”
Artistic Coordinator: Blai Mesa
Technical Coordinator: Silvia Iturria
Exhibition Gallery, Serveis Territorials of Culture and Media, Tarragona
Carrer Major, 14
43003 Tarragona
Tel. 977 251 500
8 May to 5 June
Monday to Thursday 9 to 18 h
Friday 9 to 14 h
“In this piece I wanted to recreate an atemporal and imaginary world, a world where space, shapes and the people who inhabit it defy all logic.”
This world is lost between a sea of water and another of sand, of dunes, an intriguing, desolate space, a place which often seems out of this world.
Robert Vilaplana
David Latorre Jubero “Mise en scène. Last Act”
Director: Rosa M. Ricomà Vallhonrat
Museum of Modern Art, Tarragona Diputació
43003 Tarragona
Tel. 977 235 032
mamt@diputaciodetarragona.cat
www.altanet.org/MAMT
29 April to 31 May
Tuesday to Friday 10 to 20 h
Saturday 10 to 15 h and 17 to 20 h
Sundays and bank holidays 11 to 14 h
This exhibition presents a series of images and installations from 2006 and 2007. Spaces destined to disappear, situated in two different cities: the ancient street of Casiopea, 14, now Avinguda de Valdemarín, in Aravaca, Madrid, and the Maison Néerlandaise, at Cité Université, Paris.
The philosophy of this body of work is based on the sensation that we live today in front of a “mise en scène”, in which the events or news which reach us seem more like theatrical pieces, in which the actors and spectators can exchange roles in any moment.
Toni Amengual “Crossroads of lives”
Fundació Forvm
Granada, 11
43003 Tarragona
Tel. 977 223 118
fundacioforvm@sct.ictnet.es
9 May to 14 June
The photographs of Toni Amengual (Mallorca, 1980) submerge us in the vortex of the metropolis, trap us in its vibrant rhythm, bring us close to the anonymous, personal stories that we see reflected in faces, bodies and spaces.