Domènec. Not Here, Not Anywhere. MACBA

19 Apr. to 11 Sep. 2018
MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme # 268-269

Sostenere il palazzo dell’utopia at Quaderns d’Arquitectura i Urbanisme # 268-269

How to Live with Memory. Artistic Attitudes towards Architecture and Francoism

MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León
Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, 24
24008 León

17 February, 2018 – 3 June, 2018

Artists: Toni Amengual, Sergio Belinchón, David Bestué, Albert Corbí, Juan Cruz, Domènec, Chus Domínguez, María García Ruiz, Alejandro S. Garrido, Iñaki Gracenea, Fran Meana, Rosell Meseguer, Txuspo Poyo, Ignasi Prat, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Santiago Sierra, Begoña Zubero

Curatorship: Manuel Olveira

http://musac.es/#exposiciones/expo/?id=6322&from=futuras

Ville-Usine

LE CAP – Centre d’arts plastiques de Saint-Fons (Lyon). 2017

Photo Series (4 photos 45 x 60 cm)

Solo exhibition of Domènec at MACBA

Curator: Teresa Grandas

April – September 2018

MACBA 
Plaça dels Àngels, 1
08001 Barcelona

http://www.macba.cat/en/exhibition-domenec/1/exhibitions/expo

This solo exhibition of Domènec (Mataró, 1962) offers a retrospective of his work from the late 1990s to the present, including some new projects. Using certain emblematic buildings or monuments of modernity as referents, Domènec analyses the proposals of the modern movement and its legacy within contemporary practice. Supporting his research are projects in situ, installations, maquettes, photographs, workshops, seminars and videos. Based on various local contexts, his work establishes a dialogue with other international themes to highlight the impact on the present of the utopian ideas that resulted from the Industrial Revolution and as a stand against capitalism.

Under The Shadow Of Participation

PAIC Project
ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànires, Vic
24.11.2017 – 20.01.2018

Biel Barnils, Jordi Lafon, Juan Carlos Moreno / Domènec / BridA / Line Sandvad / Sonja Vuk

Raw Material

Fabra i Coats. Centre d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
08 / 11 / 2017 – 01 / 04 / 2018

Curatorial committee: David Armengol, David G. Torres i Martí Peran

Artists: Antoni Hervàs, Antonio Ortega, Avelino Sala, Dani Montlleó, Daniela Ortiz, David Bestué, Domènec, Enric Farrés Duran, Erick Beltrán, Ester Partegàs, Jaume Pitarch, Javier Peñafiel, Joan Morey, Joana Cera, Jordi Mitjà, Lúa Coderch, Luis Guerra, Luis Bisbe, Luz Broto, Martí Anson, Mireia Sallarès, Núria Güell, Oriol Vilanova, Patricia Dauder, Pere Llobera, Rafel G. Bianchi, Regina Giménez, Tere Recarens, Xavier Arenós and Yamandú Canosa.

Conversation Piece: Les Minguettes

LE CAP – Centre d’arts plastiques de Saint-Fons (Lyon), 2017
En Résonance avec la Biennale de Lyon 2017

Installation. 4 models, screen, wood / Video, 3’24” / Wall paper

After the Second World War, cities in Europe and the United States grew rapidly with social housing policies which translated into the construction of large urban complexes of ‘vertical housing’.

The Pruitt-Igoe neighbourhood in St Louis (Missouri), created between 1954 and 1955, was one of the first and principal social housing projects built in a US city. At the end of the sixties it had become a neighbourhood known internationally for its poverty, violence and racial segregation, and for this reason its thirty-three buildings were demolished with explosives in the mid-seventies. The project became an icon of the failure of certain social housing policies, and some theorists described the demolition as ‘the day modern architecture died’.

Conversation Piece: Les Minguettes (2017) is a project centred around the story of Les Minguettes, a large social housing estate in Vénissieux, in the suburbs of the industrial south of Lyon, built in the sixties and partially demolished in the nineties. The neighbourhood houses a large number of immigrants from former French colonies and has been an important part of the history of popular movements in France. It is in precisely this ‘great whole’ that the ‘march for equality and against racism’, better known in France as the Marche des beurs, was born in 1983 and brought almost 100,000 people out onto the streets.

At the end of the seventies, the housing utopias derived from the Athens Charter (published in 1942) are wrecked on metropolitan peripheries after years of being characterised by marginalisation, youth unemployment, a lack of expectation and police brutality. At the beginning of the eighties, violent riots broke out in many neighbourhoods of France’s banlieue and in 1983 this ill-feeling is articulated at Les Minguettes as a political protest movement against the institutional racism which had spread across the country.

These demonstrations force the government to introduce a set of policies of improvement. At the start of the nineties, the government opts for the usual unilateral, skin-deep and spectacular policies and adopts a mopping-up solution, which is to say, knock down some of the neighbourhood’s huge blocks. The first sector to be demolished went by the name of Démocratie (Democracy).

Conversation Piece: Les Minguettes reproduces to scale the buildings of one square in the neighbourhood – popularly known as Red Square – which are converted into a meeting place in which to sit and discuss or watch a video wherein, using manipulated images taken from news broadcasts, the demolition is symbolically reversed.

Video edition: Rafa Ruiz

with the support of Institut Ramon Llull

 

Jerusalem ID. Mapasonor + Domènec

Jerusalem ID
Mapasonor + Domènec
23.09.17 – 07.01.18

Bòlit Centre Art Contemporani Girona
Bòlit_LaRambla

NACMM/Kibrit Encounters in Barcelona

8 / July, 10:00 > 18:00

NACMM > KIBRIT ENCOUNTERS > BCN is conceived as a moment to share reflections on topics such as artistic mobility, knowledge and collective memory production and artistic and curatorial practices for the reactivation of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in the Arab region. It invites curators and artists to present their work, research and methods, while also introducing the reflection and actions developed by NACMM – North Africa Cultural Mobility Map through its project HARAKAT as well as through the KIBRIT programme.

More info:
www.nacmm.org
www.kibrit.org

PROGRAMME:

10.00 – 10.15: Opening doors and light breakfast

10.15 – 10.30: JISER Reflexions Mediterrànies / Presentation and introduction of the day by Xavier De Luca

10.30 – 11.00: NACMM / Platform HARAKAT: Investigating mobilities of knowledge / Presentation by Pau Cata

11.00 – 11.30: KIBRIT: Reactivating memory collectively / Presentation by Francesca Masoero

11.30 – 11.45: Q&A

11.45 – 12.00: Break

12.00 – 12.30: The burden of my neighbours. Poetry and Song as Strategic Devices / Artist presentation by Christina Schultz

12.30 – 13.00: Erased Land / Artist presentation by Domènec

13.00 – 13.30: Emotional Cartographies / Artist presentation by Marta Vallejo Herrando

13.30 – 14.00: Q&A with the artists

14.00 – 15.30: Paella and informal discussion

15.30 – 17.30: Screening session:
– Le paradis ????? – Paradise, Tunis, 2017 – A video art work by Bárbara Sánchez Barroso (o.v. FR/AR, subtitles ES)

– Moi, un noir. RELOAD, 65’, Tarragona, 2015 – A film by Ro Caminal (o.v. ES, subtitles ENG)

– DJART ‘14, 25’, Algiers, 2016 – A documentary directed by Annalisa Cannito, Hichem Merouche

NACMM and the platform HARAKAT are funded by Anna Lindh Foundation, South Med CV and the Oficina de Suport a la Iniciativa Cultural (OSIC).

Kibrit is funded by SouthMed CV, a programme initiated by Interarts, BAC Art Center, Gudran for Art and Development, Khayal Arts & Education, National Center for Culture and Arts and the German Commission for UNESCO. The programme is co-funded by the European Union within the framework of the regional programme Med Culture.

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