2016 Literary cities

2014-2016

2016 XIII Literary cities

International Small Format Contemporary Art Exhibitions. Last edition organized.

From the art project-laboratory MX Espai 1010, we started together with Nora Ancarola in 1998 some international calls that lasted until 2016. With this proposal we wanted to observe the drifts that were taking place in the world of textile art in connection with its insertion into contemporary art after the Lausanne Biennial closed in 1992.

Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project (Das Passagen Werk) places us in the Paris of the early 20th century, a new urban territory in which one lived and moved with a daily existence in mind that was over and done with, full of achievements that had become the flotsam of a modernity gone adrift. Benjamin’s Paris is an example of how a city can be travelled by means of its quotations and fragmentary texts… (Excerpt from the introduction to the catalog).

A project by MX Espai 1010. CAT within the Minimum Art cycle.

Curator: Marga Ximenez
Texts: Nora Ancarola
Translations: William George and Anne Moreno
Graphic Design: Mónica Pinto

ROUTE
6/12/2016-5/1/2017 - Galerie Himmelreich, Magdeburg. Germany.
20/10-27/11/2016 - Galeria Artèria, Igualada. Catalonia.
16/9-14/10/2016 - La Xina A.R.T., Barcelona. Catalonia.

DOCUMENTS
List participating artists among which are some of my heteronyms. CAT CAS ENG. PDF 39 Kb
ANCAROLA, N. - Introduction to the catalog. CAT CAS ENG. PDF 37 Kb