Un centre d'art

Publication language: Catalan , Spanish and English
Year: 2015
Pages: 272
Cover: Semi Hardcover
Format: 19.5 x 12 cm
ISBN City Council: 978-84-1620-509-7
Publishing distributor: Xarxa de Llibres

Author/s: David Armengol (Author) and Martí Manen
Co-edition with: Consonni

During the exhibition season of 2014, David Armengol and Martí Manen tested out a live art centre after winning a call to compete to be in charge of the programme for the yet to be defined Centre d’Art Contemporani. A programme of exhibitions requires a communication system, an educational project, and tools to manage it. Armengol and Manen reacted to these needs and to the thirst for a context to offer a grammar for spelling out art, texts and possibilities for connection.

This book explains the process, the decision making and provides a vivid take on the specific moment. It also serves as an archive of activities, shows, contact with artists and other institutions, whilst never forgetting the real people who visited the art centre. Layers of reading that branch off, extend and are defined before our very eyes. Layers of readings between generations, between contexts, between languages, between times, between ways of understanding what makes something art, what makes something literature. This is how the chronicles and narratives in The Text: First Notions and Findings take shape.

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