Tourist Attraction in Barcelona:
CaixaForum Barcelona

CaixaForum Barcelona is a cultural center created by Caixa d'Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona as part of its cultural foundation (La Caixa Foundation). It is designed for all types of public and has a wide social, cultural and educational offer. It is located at the foot of Montjuïc in Barcelona and occupies the ancient Fàbrica Casaramona, a modernist building designed by Josep Puigi Cadafalch and recently restored. Exhibition halls; occupy the ancient naves of the textile factory, they are large and bright. In total they occupy 3,000 square meters, distributed in three rooms. Temporary exhibitions are held on the great cultures of the past, on modern and contemporary art, on the great masters of twentieth-century photography and on trends in contemporary plastic art. Some of the exhibitions are dedicated to the Foundation's contemporary art collection. The Foundation's collection has over 200 works and is one of the most important in all of Spain. The collection consists of Spanish works of art from modernism to the present day, international art is represented by works by Donald Judd, Jannis Kounellis, Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter or Sigmar Polke. The work "The house of Piombo (Chamber of Pain)" by Joseph Beuys, is exhibited permanently. Media library. Located in the ancient warehouses of the Casaramona factory. It has a modern audiovisual equipment, with the aim of being able to offer the public access to its documentary and artistic sources on the "Media Art" (manifestation of art in relation to the field of communication technologies), in its broadest sense , from video art, video dance, to artistic photography, cinema and creative documentaries. Since its inauguration in 1994, the Media Library has devoted many of its efforts to setting up a video collection with the aim of making available to the public essential works for the context of contemporary audiovisual culture. The collection consists of works by different artists, both internationally and nationally, combining current creations with one of the most important Spanish archives. Auditorium. In the basement, with a capacity of 350 people. It has a system that allows you to change the sound coating of the room according to the different activities hosted. In addition, two emblematic works can be admired: the mural fresco that Sol LeWitt created in 2001 for the center and the neon cloud by Lucio Fontana made for the Milan Triennale in 1953. Text processing: Giovambattista Spagnuolo (Myooni)

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