Benet Rossell
Benet Rossell i Sanuy (23 October 1937 – 21 August 2016) was a notable Spanish artist whose career spanned several decades and encompassed a diverse range of artistic endeavors. Early life and education With an educational background in economics, law, and sociology from institutions in Barcelona and Madrid, Rossell's artistic journey took a significant turn in 1964 when he relocated to Paris, France. This city became his base for many years, from which he explored various cultures and artistic expressions through extensive travels, particularly in India, Nepal and New York. There, he immersed himself in theatre and cinema training and became a key figure among the 'Catalan artists in Paris', collaborating frequently with contemporaries such as Jaume Xifra, Antoni Miralda, and Joan Rabascall. Despite their varied professional backgrounds, Rossell collaborated with these artists on multiple projects, reflecting a shared interest in exploring the ceremonial and ritual aspects ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Àger
Àger (; ) is a municipality in the ''comarca'' of the Noguera in Catalonia, Spain. It is situated in the north-west of the ''comarca'', and the territory of the municipality stretches between the Noguera Ribagorçana and Noguera Pallaresa rivers. The Terradets reservoir A reservoir (; ) is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to water storage, store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation. Reservoirs are created by controlling a watercourse that drains an existing body of wa ... on the Noguera Pallaresa is situated within the municipality. The village is linked to Balaguer and Tremp by the L-904 road. It has a population of . Villages *Àger town, 317 inhabitants. * Agulló, 45 inhabitants. * Corçà, 32 inhabitants. * Fontdepou, 16 inhabitants. * Els Masos de Millà, 17 inhabitants. * Millà, 5 inhabitants. * La Règola, 21 inhabitants. * Sant Josep de Fontdepou, 19 inhabitants. * Vilamajor, 13 inhabitants. See also * Viscounty of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Barcelona
Barcelona ( ; ; ) is a city on the northeastern coast of Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second-most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within city limits,Barcelona: Población por municipios y sexo – Instituto Nacional de Estadística. (National Statistics Institute) its urban area extends to numerous neighbouring municipalities within the province of Barcelona and is home to around 5.3 million people, making it the fifth most populous ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Antoni Miralda
Antoni Miralda (born 1942 in Terrassa, Spain) is a Spanish multidisciplinary artist. Biography Miralda Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. ''Catalogue of the exhibition Miralda De gustibus non disputandum'', 2010 was born in Terrassa, Barcelona, in 1942 where he grew up in the atmosphere of a textile manufacturing town. After military service, he moved to Paris in 1962, starting to create sculptural objects and drawings while making a living through his work in photography for fashion magazines. Beginning various series of sculptures working with toy soldiers, he exhibited in Paris, London and other European cities. In 1967 he began to create 'food sculptures' working with organic materials and with objects from popular culture. He also started to collaborate with other artists in creating participatory events with colored food and ceremonial rituals. The small-scale work evolved into large constructions in public sites while the private events grew into complex p ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Barcelona Museum Of Contemporary Art
The Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (, , MACBA, ) is a contemporary art museum situated in the Plaça dels Àngels, in El Raval neighborhood, Ciutat Vella district, in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The museum opened to the public on 28 November 1995. Its current director is Elvira Dyangani Ose, while previous directors include Daniel Giralt-Miracle (1988–1994), Miquel Molins Nubiola (1995–1998), (1998–2007), (2008-2015), and Ferran Barenblit (2015-2021). History In 1959, art critic Alexandre Cirici Pellicer formed a group of contemporary artists showing work in a series of twenty-three exhibitions with the hopes of beginning a collection for a new contemporary art museum in Barcelona. It was not until 1986 that the City Council of Barcelona recommended the American architect Richard Meier & Partners (1987–1995) to design the museum. Art critics Francesc Miralles and Rosa Queralt were hired to write the museum’s mission statement. In 1987, the MACBA Foundation ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Dorothée Selz
Dorothée Selz (born 1946) is a French sculptor born in Paris. She creates ephemeral, edible sculptures. Biography Dorothée Selz was born in Paris in 1946. She sculpts ephemeral, edible sculptures and is recognized as a pioneer of eat art. In 1972 Selz created "Trans Europe Express", a multicolored landscape featuring a miniature train circuit. The work was acquired by the Centre national des arts plastiques (CNAP) in 1973. Most of the decoration consists of royal icing Royal icing is a hard white icing, made from softly beaten egg whites, icing sugar (powdered sugar), and sometimes lemon or lime juice. It is used to decorate Christmas cakes, wedding cakes, gingerbread houses, cookies, and many other cakes and ..., applied with a piping bag and fluted tip. In 1973 Selz produced the series ''Mimétisme relatif.'' In 1978 she presented an exhibition entitled "Sucre d'art". Her work is featured in an exhibition at Loeve and Co gallery in 2019. Selz presents her work at v ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jean Rouch
Jean Rouch (; 31 May 1917 – 18 February 2004) was a French Filmmaking, filmmaker and anthropologist. He is considered one of the founders of cinéma vérité in France. Rouch's practice as a filmmaker, for over 60 years in Africa, was characterized by the idea of ''shared anthropology''. Influenced by his discovery of surrealism in his early twenties, many of his films blur the line between fiction and documentary, creating a new style: ethnofiction. The French New Wave filmmakers hailed Rouch as one of their own. Commenting on Rouch's work as someone "in charge of research for the Musée de l'Homme" in Paris, Godard said, “Is there a better definition for a filmmaker?". Biography Rouch began his long association with Nigerien subjects in 1941, when he arrived in Niamey as a French colonial hydrology engineer to supervise a construction project in Niger. There he met Damouré Zika, the son of a Songhai proper, Songhai traditional healer and fisherman, near the town of A ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bogotá Museum Of Modern Art
The Bogotá Museum of Modern Art (''Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá'', known as MAMBO) is a museum of modern art located in Bogotá, Colombia. It is one of the main cultural and artistic establishments in Colombia. History The museum opened to the public in 1963 by the art critic Marta Traba. From 1969 to 2016, its director was , the ex-wife of sculptor Fernando Botero Fernando Botero Angulo (19 April 1932 – 15 September 2023) was a Colombian figurative artist and sculptor. His signature style, also known as "Boterismo", depicts people and figures in large, exaggerated volume, which can represent political .... Headquarters The museum's current headquarters was designed by Rogelio Salmona in 1985 and has been located in the center of Bogotá ever since. Featuring 5,000 square meters of floorspace distributed over four levels, it contains a sculpture patio, a library, an auditorium, a photo library, a warehouse, a movie theater and a restaurant. Rogelio Salmona's bui ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Museum Of Contemporary Art, University Of São Paulo
A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers and specialists. Museums host a much wider range of objects than a library, and they usually focus on a specific theme, such as the arts, science, natural history or local history. Public museums that host exhibitions and interactive demonstrations are often tourist attractions, and many draw large numbers of visitors from outside of their host country, with the most visited museums in the world attracting millions of visitors annually. Since the establishment of the earliest known museum in ancient times, museums have been associated with academia and the preservation of rare items. Museums originated as private collections of interesting items, and not until much later did the emphasis on educating the public take root. Etymology The ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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1937 Births
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: The Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinate its leaders. * January 30 – The Moscow Trial initiated on January 23 is concluded. Thirteen of the defendants are Capital punishment, sentenced to death (including Georgy Pyatakov, Nikolay Muralov and Leonid Serebryakov), while the rest, including Karl Radek and Grigory Sokolnikov are sent to Gulag, labor camps and later murdered. They were i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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2016 Deaths
This is a list of lists of deaths of notable people, organized by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked below. 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 1986 Earlier years ''Deaths in years earlier than this can usually be found in the main articles of the years.'' See also * Lists of deaths by day * Deaths by year (category) {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Spanish Artists
This is a list of notable Spanish artists born after 1800. For artists born before this year, see List of Spanish artists (born 1300–1500) and List of Spanish artists (born 1500–1800) Born 1801–1850 * Bernardo López Piquer (1801–1874) painter * Luis López Piquer (1802–1865) painter * Antonio Maria Esquivel (1806-1857) ballerina * José María Avrial (1807-1891) painter *Joaquim Espalter (1809-1880) painter * Rosa Maria Gilart Jiménez (1810–1880) embroiderer *Lluís Rigalt (1814-1894) painter * Francisco de Paula Van Halen (1814–1887) painter *Federico de Madrazo (1815–1894) painter *Carlos Luis de Ribera y Fieve (1815–1891) painter *Eugenio Lucas Velázquez (1817–1870) painter * Ángel María Cortellini (1819–1887) painter * Francisco Lameyer (1825–1877) painter * Manuel Castellano (1826–1880) painter *Ramon Martí Alsina (1826-1894) painter *Carlos de Haes (1829–1898) painter * Domingo Valdivieso (1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Artists From Catalonia
An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts only. However, the term is also often used in the entertainment business to refer to actors, musicians, singers, dancers and other performers, in which they are known as ''Artiste'' instead. ''Artiste'' (French) is a variant used in English in this context, but this use has become rare. The use of the term "artist" to describe writers is valid, but less common, and mostly restricted to contexts such as critics' reviews; "author" is generally used instead. Dictionary definitions The ''Oxford English Dictionary'' defines the older, broader meanings of the word "artist": * A learned person or Master of Arts * One who pursues a practical science, traditionally medicine, astrology, alchemy, chemistry * A follower of a pursuit in which skill co ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |