Pep Duran. A Chain of Events in Museu D'Art Contemporani De Barcelona 2011
Pep Duran. A Chain of Event 3 March - 5 June 2011 Capella MACBA
A Chain of Events, an installation by the artist Pep Duran (Vilanova i la Geltrú, 1955) specifically made for the Capella MACBA, should be seen as a work-essay. Made in two parts – Retaule laic (Secular Altarpiece, 2010–11) and Peça escrita (Written Piece, 2010–11) – the intervention brings together and distils the intellectual, formal and aesthetic influences at the core of this artist’s way of working and thinking.
The origin of the work stems from a process of exhaustive revision of the last decade of Duran’s artistic production, the innumerable images that have fascinated him, from the Russian avant-garde, experimental theatre or the Bauhaus, to the metamorphic Latin-American modernities. Thousands of references and hundreds of texts configure a personal archive that grows and evolves through the constant accumulation of sources.
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