Gallery sights in Barcelona
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Dalí Escultor
One of the best things about this collection is its superb location in the Reial Cercle Artístic (Royal Art Circle) building just near La Catedral. This somewhat hyped display offers 60-odd little-known sculptures by a man who was largely renowned for his paintings. Documents, sketches and photos by and of the artist complete the picture. If you can’t visit his museum-mausoleum in Figueres, this is no substitute, but does provide some clues to the life and work of the mustachioed maestro.
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CaixaForum
The Caixa building society prides itself on its involvement in (and ownership of) art, in particular all that is contemporary. Its premier art expo space in the city hosts part of the bank’s extensive collection from around the globe. The setting is a completely renovated former factory, the Fàbrica Casaramona, an outstanding Modernista brick structure designed by Puig i Cadafalch. From 1940 to 1993 it housed the First Squadron of the police cavalry unit – 120 horses in all.
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Fundació Foto Colectania
Photography lovers should swing by here to see the latest exhibition; they change over about three times a year. When you reach what seems like offices, head through to the back on the ground floor, where two floors of exhibition space await. What you see may come from the foundation’s own collection of Spanish and Portuguese snappers from the 1950s on, but more likely will be temporary exhibitions of other work.
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Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Behind Macba, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona is a complex of auditoriums and exhibition halls created in the early 1990s from an 18th-century hospice. The big courtyard, with a vast glass wall on one side, is spectacular. Exhibitions are held here regularly. Admission is free from 8pm Thursdays and from 3pm Sundays and on the first Wednesday of the month.
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Fundació Joan Brossa
Pop into this basement gallery to get an insight into the mind of one of the city’s cultural icons, Joan Brossa, a difficult-to-classify mix of poet, artist, theatre man, Catalan nationalist and all-round visionary. You’ll see a panoply of objects of art (like Porró amb Daus, a typical Spanish wine decanter with dice), followed by samples of his visual poems.
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Capella Macba
The renovated 400-year-old Convent dels Àngels houses the Capella Macba, where the Macba regularly rotates selections from its permanent collection. The Gothic framework of the one-time convent-church remains intact.
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Centre d’Art Santa Mònica
The Convent de Santa Mònica was a monastery converted into an art gallery and cultural centre, the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica.
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