Exhibition
until 21.07.2025

MACBA Collection: Prelude. Poetic Intention

Views from the exhibition "MACBA Collection. Prelude. Poetic Intention". Photo: Miquel Coll, 2024.

A group exhibition that aims to reverse the dramaturgy of the museum by putting the artwork at the centre so we can address its will, its energy and its poetic intention.

What would happen if we separated the artwork from the museographic context that surrounds it? Would it be possible to think of museography as a kind of aphasia, a loss of language? Would it be possible to break up the dramaturgy of the museum that guides us in how to move through its spaces, how to register the artistic experiences they offer us, and how to apprehend the sensations that emanate from them? If we assumed that this shift were possible, what other meanings might arise, allowing us to interpret the work in a different way, and also to reinvent the museum as an institution? If that were within the realm of possibility, could we respond directly to the will of the work, to its energy and desire, to its ‘poetic intention’? Martinican poet and philosopher Édouard Glissant states that the poem must never deny the “way of the world”: can the museum put the work of art and the ways in which it reflects the world at the centre of everything?

Taking its title from Glissant’s book, Poetic Intention can be understood as an exercise in breaking free from the institutional framework, offering a space for reflection and critique in which ‘art’, both as concept and experience, is presented as a generative and emancipatory force. This new approach to the Collection features, in large part, works acquired in recent years, setting them in new relationships with the existing Collection, but it also includes works that are entering the Museum for the first time, making its history and context more permeable and open.

		
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dates

Until July 21 of 2025

timetable

Monday to Friday, from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. Saturdays, from 11:00 am to 7:30 pm. Sundays, from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm.

documentation

Brochure

title

MACBA Collection: Prelude. Poetic Intention

location

Meier building and CED Ground Floor

dates

Until July 21 of 2025

title

MACBA Collection: Prelude. Poetic Intention

timetable

Monday to Friday, from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm. Saturdays, from 11:00 am to 7:30 pm. Sundays, from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm.

location

Meier building and CED Ground Floor

documentation

Brochure

artists

113 artists

curated by

Antònia M. Perelló Ferrer

Claudia Segura Campins

Elvira Dyangani Ose

Patricia Sorroche

videos

5 results

Lúa Coderch’s Poetic Intention

In ‘Estil Internacional (Mur d’Ònix)’ (International Style [Onyx Wall]), Lúa Coderch reproduces the onyx wall of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, built in 1929 for the Barcelona International Exposition. The work reflects on the paradox hidden behind the concept of “historical present” and touches on how the city has been built, projecting moments of time that the city wished to commemorate which have inevitably become outdated.

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