Il.luminacions

One of the perks of being the (graduate) program assistant, or GPA as some of the students have dubbed me, is that I get to see some cool exhibitions that I might not otherwise seek out. Or, I might just get lazy and choose to sit in a cafe watching people rather than go to a museum. In any case, last Tuesday we went to an exhibit at the CCCB (or Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona) called Illuminations. The exhibit brought together art and ideas by Catalonia's visionaries from several centuries. There were contemporary comments on ancient pieces, like the Roman Medusa mosaic, which we saw in Tarragona, re-made with bits of photos and words generated by a freeware program that uses Google to search for images and text.

This painting of an open mouth caught my eye, but I don't remember the artist's name. And, there was a difficult to digest piece on the marriage of the Statue of Liberty with the statue of Christopher Columbus, which resides at the end of the Ramblas here in Barcelona. It was basically photo and text documentation of the whole "ceremony" including a display of models of the wedding dress. In any case, an interesting exhibit promoting Catalonia's forward-thinking citizens, and a good prelude to our visit to the Dalí museum on Wednesday.