EUROPEAN SCULPTURE

Entitled UNA MICA D’ESCULTURA, SI US PLAU! (PLEASE, SOME SCULPTURE!), the European Museum of Modern Art (MEAM) in Barcelona presents a collection that wants to give a warning about the importance that this great art has had in the European culture and the current lack of interest on most representative Works of the 20th century.

Some members of the ICRE have collaborated in preparing the catalog texts, as Dr. Cristina Rodriguez Samaniego, Dr. Irene Gras and Dr. Jorge Egea.

The sculpture had an important bearing upon the other arts in antiquity. Not only Greece and Rome are full of sculptures, but the best museums in Paris, London or New York are a good example of what sculpture has been in the history of European art. During the late 19th century and throughout the 20th, sculpture, more tied to the traditional canons, survived with dignity in parallel to the emergence of the Cubist movement, the triumph of abstraction and destruction of form that characterizes contemporary art during the last century.

Thousands of sculptors, for the whole of Europe, kept alive the sculptural tradition, not only in Paris or Rome, but also, and most notably, in countries such as Belgium, Czech Republic, Norway, Poland, Germany and so on. This aspect of art is largely unknown, not only to the general public, but even to specialists and art critics, who could hardly list more than six or seven names of figurative sculptors of the twentieth century without consulting dictionaries, hard to find , on the other hand.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

UNA MICA D’ESCULTURA, SI US PLAU! September 4th to October 12th

PLACE: MEAM Carrer Barra de Ferro 5, Barcelona
OPENING HOURS: Tuesday to Sunday from 10:00 to 20:00 h. Closed on Mondays.

TICKETS: Museum Entrance: € 7 // Reduced Museum Entrance: € 5 // Free admission: Children under 12.