'The Stadium, the Pavilion and the Palace', intervention by Domènec in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion
28/04/2018.
[BCN] Spain 18.04>06.05.2018
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The Mies van der Rohe Foundation presents a new intervention in the pavilion by hand of a visual artist referring to an image of hanging clothes.
'The Stadium, the Pavilion and the Palace' by Domènec in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. Photograph © Anna Mas
'The Stadium, the Pavilion and the Palace' by Domènec in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. Photograph © Anna Mas
'The Stadium, the Pavilion and the Palace' by Domènec in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. Photograph © Anna Mas
'The Stadium, the Pavilion and the Palace' by Domènec in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. Photograph © Anna Mas
Domènec. 'The Stadium, the Pavilion and the Palace' by Domènec in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. Photograph © Anna Mas
Domènec. 'The Stadium, the Pavilion and the Palace' by Domènec in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. Photograph © Anna Mas
As in previous interventions by SANAA, Ai Weiwei, Jordi Bernadó ('Pavilion Mies van der Rohe, Second reconstruction' Luis Martínez Santa-María ('Fear of Columns') or Andrés Jaque ('Phantom, Mies as Rendered Society'), among others, today we present the intervention of the artist Domènec.
This time it is Domènec, an artist with a broad trajectory on the political strategies of historical memory and social empowerment, who proposes a reflection in the form of uchronía. An abstraction of how the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion could have been seen in the period after the Exhibition had not been dismantled.
His intervention provokes us an image opposed to the one we have of the mountain of Montjuïc in the context of the International Exhibition of 1929: the little-explained social reality of this same place in the following period. The need for labor for the growth of the city, of what it is exponent of the International Exhibition, generates a migratory flow that in Montjuïc flows into entire neighborhoods of barracks and with the enabling of the Belgium Pavilion, the Palace of Missions and the Olympic Stadium to welcome or detain people without resources. If the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion had remained and had also been set up as a refuge, it would have been necessary to find a way to delimit the spaces where to make life: Domènec refers to the image of the clothes hanging from the article by Huertas Claveria in the magazine Destino en 1966 and relates it by inserting images, texts and objects in the space of the Pavilion.
The Stadium, the Pavilion and the Palace, is a collaboration between MACBA and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe within the framework of the exhibition Domènec. Not Here, Not Anywhere that can be visited at the MACBA from April 19 to September 11, 2018.
This time it is Domènec, an artist with a broad trajectory on the political strategies of historical memory and social empowerment, who proposes a reflection in the form of uchronía. An abstraction of how the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion could have been seen in the period after the Exhibition had not been dismantled.
His intervention provokes us an image opposed to the one we have of the mountain of Montjuïc in the context of the International Exhibition of 1929: the little-explained social reality of this same place in the following period. The need for labor for the growth of the city, of what it is exponent of the International Exhibition, generates a migratory flow that in Montjuïc flows into entire neighborhoods of barracks and with the enabling of the Belgium Pavilion, the Palace of Missions and the Olympic Stadium to welcome or detain people without resources. If the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion had remained and had also been set up as a refuge, it would have been necessary to find a way to delimit the spaces where to make life: Domènec refers to the image of the clothes hanging from the article by Huertas Claveria in the magazine Destino en 1966 and relates it by inserting images, texts and objects in the space of the Pavilion.
The Stadium, the Pavilion and the Palace, is a collaboration between MACBA and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe within the framework of the exhibition Domènec. Not Here, Not Anywhere that can be visited at the MACBA from April 19 to September 11, 2018.
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Collaborators
MACBA and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation
Location
Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Barcelona, Spain
Date
From April 18 to May 6, 2018
Artista Visual. Domènec
Domènec. He was born in 1962 in Mataró (Barcelona). Visual artist. Taking as his point of departure conceptual processes of reflection, Domènec has built up a sculptural and photographic body of work, along with installations and interventions in public space, which takes the architectural project as one of the most productive and complex imaginary constructions of the modern tradition. He has taken part in several projects In Situ and international projects of Public Art in different places like Ireland, Mexico, Belgium, France, Italy, USA, Brazil, Argentine, Finland, Slovenia, Japan, Israel and Palestine.
His videos have been projected among other places in the New Museum of Contemporary Art of New York, in the Hammer Museum of Los Angeles or in Storefront for Art and Architecture of New York.
He is a coeditor of the art magazine Roulotte.
Member of the board of directors of Can Xalant, Center of Creation and Contemporary Thought of Mataró (2005-2012)
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