Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona shows " In the Chinese City "

Monday, 12 January 2009 19:53

Barcelona, Spain - For a decade now, China has been immersed in major processes of construction and destruction that have greatly modified its landscape. The exhibition will situate these changes in the country's historical and cultural continuum. It aims to present the reality of the city past and present in four of its dimensions: town planning, architecture, landscape and infrastructure. It will also be an opportunity to compare these realities with the Chinese and Western imaginaries, and with mechanisms of information or propaganda.

The exhibition takes as its basis the presentation of archaeological documents, works of art, models, archive images and contemporary creation. The exhibition layout, unified by the notion of change, is broken down into a dozen independent spaces associated with a Chinese word or concept, or a city that will be presented by means of one of its principal characteristics, with particular emphasis on Beijing, currently embarked on major urban development centering on the Olympic Games.

Some of the sections will be Garden, Character, Earth, Water, Feng shui and Construction / Destruction, and the cities will include Suzhou, Xi'an, Chongqing, Canton, ShangáiShangái and Beijing. On exhibition through 22 February, 2009.

The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) organizes and produces exhibitions, debates, festivals and concerts, programmes film cycles, courses and lectures, and encourages creation using new technologies and languages. It promotes artistic research in fields such as multimedia, backs research into exhibition formats, exports its in-house productions to other national and international arts centres, museums and institutions

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