Open Works. Art in Movement, 1955-1975

This exhibition, organized by the Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation, brings together an important selection of works by 37 international artists who, in the 1950s and 1960s in Europe, serched a profound transformation in the role of the spectator. This artistic movement was called "kinetic art" for promoting the participation of the viewer with the work of art.

Art in movement, theorized by Umberto Eco in 1962, experimented and serched new materials and supports, and opened the artistic space. It used materials and technologies from science and industry to explore space, light and movement. It should also be noted that the network of artists linked to this artistic movement had significant political and utopian implications.

In "Open Works. Art in Movement, 1955-1975" you can see works by Marina Apollonio, Alberto Biasi, Pol Bury, Alexander Calder, Gianni Colombo, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Dadamaino, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Haacke, Mona Hatoum, Julio Le Parc, Heinz Mack, François Morellet, Nicolas Schöffer, Jesús Rafael Soto, Takis, Jean Tinguely, Günther Uecker or Victor Vasarely. Also of outstanding artists of the kinetic art in Catalonia and in the rest of Spain like Leandre Cristòfol, Ángel Duarte, Jordi Pericot, Eusebio Sempere or Francisco Sobrino. Most of the works demand interaction of the spectator, in one way or another. On some occasions he will have to touch, in others blow, or as in the case of "Bariestesia", by Gianni Colombo, where he will have to go up and down inclined stairs and thus become aware of the instability of reality. Another example is the "Chromosaturation" by Carlos Cruz-Díez, an installation of rooms designed to provoke in the spectator the effect of chromosaturation by the continuous exposure to different colors; this effect makes the viewer perceive space as a target even though it is not.

The exhibition is curated by art historians Jordi Ballart (responsible for the Documentation Center of the Atelier Cruz-Diez Paris), and Marianna Gelussi (independent curator).

Price

General: € 5
Reduced ticket: € 3 (over 65, students and people with disabilities> = 33%)
Free: 12 years and people with disabilities> = 65%.

Other data of interest

Guided tours are organized for the general public on Saturdays at 6 pm and Sundays at 12 noon (these visits are included in the price).