This year’s fair is special. ArtLibres marks the 15th anniversary of ArtsLibris and has changed its venue from recent years, the bastion at the Mercat de Sant Antoni, to different MACBA sites.
On the Barcelona City Council stand you’ll find some illustrated books from Barcelona Llibres, such as the travel notebooks and our collection of comics, along with other publications from the municipal cultural centres of La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, La Capella, Fabra i Coats: Barcelona Contemporary Art Centre and Art Factory and theDisseny Hub Barcelona, such as the catalogues from their exhibitions.
The Barcelona Llibres stand will be in the MACBA site of La Capella. Other spaces prepared for publishers’ stands are the Espai Fòrum and the Sala Gòtica. The Seminar meeting and the Speakers’ Corner activity will be held in the Convent Auditorium.
PICASSO-BARCELONA. Una cartografia, at Speakers’ Corner
In the Speakers’ Corner programme, we particularly recommend the presentation of the book PICASSO-BARCELONA. Una cartografia, by Claustre Rafart i Planas, winner of the last Award for Best Published Book, by the Ministry of Culture. A joint publication by Barcelona City Council, the Museu Picasso and the TENOV publishing house. The presentation is on Friday, 15 November, from 1.45 pm to 2.30 pm. Participating in the activity will be Mª José Gálvez, director general for Books and the Promotion of Reading; Emmanuel Guigon, director of the Museu Picasso; Maribel López, director of Arco, and Rocío Santa Cruz, director of ArtsLibris.
ArtsLibris is a unique opportunity to present to the public the projects of publishing companies taking part and establish the synergies needed to help the cultural network around us grow.