SCENE 6

28.05-30.06.2019

Luz Broto / Black Tulip / June Crespo / Antoni Hervàs / Ocaña / Tere Recarens / Jara Rocha + Joana Moll / Francesc Ruiz / Carlos Sáez / Julia Spínola / Y€$Si Perse + La Plebeya + Mar Pons + Georgina Soler

This last scene is a closing that opens. It leads to something that has to do with erasing or blurring. Erasing boundaries and identities, including that of space. This scene is not an “end”, but a fade-to-black transition containing and anticipating the uncertainty of what is to come.

Les escenes: 25 Years after. Scene 5: Strata

07.05-26.05.2019

June Crespo / Anna Dot / Antoni Hervàs / Marla Jacarilla / Rasmus Nilausen / Quim Pujol / Francesc Ruiz / Carlos Sáez / Julia Spínola / Marc Vives

In the fifth movement of “Les Escenes”, some works extend across the floor. Others consider the symbolic terrain on which we live. All of them invite us to complete a journey, alternating sensitive memory and the ability to anticipate. This time we have to look down. The works are realistic in the meaning given to this word in Ben Lerner’s verses: “If you have to look up it’s religious. / If you have to look down it’s realistic.” Down, like the researcher or the gold prospector, but also the scrap collector and the beggar. With all of these people, to find the structures, or their remains, and the silenced evidence of poverty – or the second life of recycling: of objects, of ideas, of worldviews.

PERFORMANCES

Quim Pujol, De la Ceca a la Meca. May, Saturday 11 at 7 pm and Sunday 12, at noon. Presenting a previously unseen work arising from an obsessive combing of demonyms ranging from “British punctuality” to “Indian file” and including “oranges from China”. Reserve your place at: lacapella@bcn.cat

Anna Dot, De l’error a la pedra o de la literatura a l’objecte. Wednesday 22 May at 7 pm. Anna Dot’s installation is part of Escena 4 and Escena 5 and today she is presenting a performance-based activity in the form of a talk in the same exhibition gallery.

Marc Vives, La Fiesta (after). Sunday 26 May, La Capella doors open: 10.15pm. The meeting will commence after his last performance at the Antic Teatre.

Curatorial team: David Armengol, Sonia Fernández Pan, Eloy Fernández Porta, Sabel Gavaldon and Anna Manubens

27 January 1994 saw the launch of the La Capella visual arts programmes. Twenty-five years on, a team of five people – four curators and a cultural critic – who have passed through the organisation in some capacity or other have come together to look back at the contents of these programmes. The sharing of expectations and desires and the dance of possible works and themes will continue over a few months, with creative passions, finds, rediscoveries and doubts.

La Capella has given shape to the unidentified object we refer to when we speak of an art ‘scene’ in the city of Barcelona. Viewed with the benefit of hindsight, the notion of a scene fades, replaced by a succession of intense moments that are impossible to delimit or fix within certain genealogies. They are scenes that are successive but which also exist in parallel to each other. They are scenes within scenes: some seem to have been rejected; others are neighbours; some are well-lit; and there are those which, in the half-darkness, have the dubious light of uncertainty.

It all began with a work that was part of the first La Capella exhibition. It was then joined by another that called into question the fact that there had been a beginning. This gave rise to another that offered keys that made it possible to continue… The works progressively mounted up, and the movements generated their own internal rhythm. On the fly and with no predetermined direction, works and artists of different generations, provenances and intentions gradually entered the scene.

Les escenes. 25 Years after is a response to a wish to do and undo that hinges on the immediate present. A present time that connects the past and the future of La Capella, which are also the eras of contemporary and emerging art in our city.

SCENE 1

27.01 – 10.02.2019

Lucía Egaña / Laia Estruch / Gustavo Marrone / Marc O’Callaghan / Julia Spínola / Marc Vives

SCENE 2

12.02-10.03.2019

David Bestué / Carles Congost / Lucía Egaña / Daniel Jacoby / Gustavo Marrone / PLOM / Alex Reynolds / Julia Spínola / Marc Vives

SCENE 3

12.03-07.04.2019

Benzo / David Bestué / Carles Congost / June Crespo / Lucía Egaña / Laia Estruch / Pol Gorezje / Ariadna Guiteras + TMTMTM / Daniel Jacoby / Rasmus Nilausen / Alex Reynolds / Julia Spínola / Jon Uriarte / Marc Vives

ESCENA 4

09.04-05.05.2019

Benzo / Anna Dot / Laia Estruch / Pol Gorezje / Ariadna Guiteras + TMTMTM / Marla Jacarilla / Daniel Jacoby i Yu Araki / Rasmus Nilausen / Ania Nowak i Max Göran / Julia Spínola / Jon Uriarte / Marc Vives

ESCENA 5

07.05-26.05.2019

June Crespo / Anna Dot / Antoni Hervàs / Marla Jacarilla / Rasmus Nilausen / Quim Pujol / Francesc Ruiz / Carlos Sáez / Julia Spínola / Marc Vives

ESCENA 6

28.05-30.06.2019

Luz Broto / Black Tulip / June Crespo / Antoni Hervàs / Ocaña / Tere Recarens / Jara Rocha + Joana Moll / Francesc Ruiz / Carlos Sáez / Julia Spínola / Y€$Si Perse + La Plebeya + Mar Pons + Georgina Soler

El misterio de Caviria works from an investigation into the transformist capability of drawing, able to activate, destroy, disrupt and inject life into what surrounds it. It is a visual performance in the copla-terror style where two mythologies, those of the Barcelona cabaret scene and ancient Greece, collide – an invocation of the gods of the underworld in the tradition of the rites of the Cabeiri, in which fire, blood and mockery of masculinity are the essential ingredients for providing insight into a story that is at once local and universal.

Links

Antoni Hervàs

De cintura para arriba

Collaborators

Cafè Schilling

Hangar

Circuit d'Art contemporanio de Barcelona

Cal Cego