Barcelona



From 25 February to 24 May 2010, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona presents “ATOPIA. Art and City in the 21st Century”, the Centre’s first exhibition devoted to contemporary art, curated by the director of the CCCB, Josep Ramoneda, and curator and art critic Iván de la Nuez.

ATOPIA is the feeling of unease experienced by the individual in the face of the present-day city which in no way represents the paradise dreamt-of or promised that utopia offers us. The exhibition addresses this unease, the discomfort between the city that does exist and the individual, and the tension between a city that becomes individual (taking on a life of its own over and above nations, countries or states) and an individual who is a mere number.

With 168 works (painting, sculpture, photography, video and installations) by 41 contemporary artists (Sergio Belinchón, Hicham Benohoud, Nuno Cera, Oleg Dou, Andreas Gursky, David LaChappelle, Rogelio López Cuenca, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Thomas Ruff, Carey Young, etc.) the exhibition addresses this tension between individual and city, centring on an urb that is losing its functions of meeting space and realization to become a space of loss and failure.


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From 25 February 2010 to 24 May 2010

Opening
24 Feb 2010 07:00 pm

Opening hours
From Tuesday to Sunday: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Thusday 11 a.m. at 10 p.m.
Closed: Non-holiday Mondays

Irene Ruiz Auret
Servei de premsa del CCCB
Montalegre 5, 08001, Barcelona
T. 93 306 41 23
www.cccb.org