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24/3/2014

Metamorphosis

Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona CCCB, Barcelona

Curator Carolina López

Artists: Ladislas Starewitch, Jan Švankmajer, Quay Brothers

Metamorphosis presents the works of four key figures in the field of animated films: the pioneering Polish animator (born in Russia) who made his home in Paris, Ladislas Starewitch (1882-1965), the Czech master, Jan Švankmajer (1934), and the Quay Brothers (1947), who were born in Pennsylvania but have lived in London for the past three decades. Three unique filmographies that, nonetheless, have a great deal in common: an eccentric universe of slumber where innocence, cruelty, voluptuousness, magic and madness coexist. A troubling, poetic, lucid and, at times grotesque, at times phantasmagorical, landscape of people who love the unproductive and futile.

Theirs is a cinema of resistance against narrative conventions which is impervious to the rationalising hygiene modernity has imposed. In the face of the world of the adult and the correct, Starewitch’s imagination, Švankmajer’s provocation and the Quay Brothers’ permanently convalescing characters put themselves forward as an unexpected invitation to freedom.

Animated cinema is the demiurgic art par excellence: matter comes to life and is transformed in the hands and imaginations of the creators. They, more than anybody, know about the secret life of objects.

The exhibition also showcases a large number of artistic and cinematographic references which trace the spheres of interest these filmmakers are drawn to: fairytales, horror stories, the world of dreams, cabinets of curiosities, pre-Enlightenment science, alchemy and illusionism.

This is the first time that the work of these four artists has been presented in any detail and depth in our country. Yet what makes the exhibition a truly international event is the fact that the work of these creators, who are engaged in explicit dialogue, is being brought together in one single project: the Quay Brothers acknowledge that they are admirers of Jan Švankmajer, and all three relish the company of Starewitch.

On the occasion of the exhibition, a publication will come out including texts by Jordi Costa, Brian Dillon, Andrés Hispano, Carolina López, François Martin and Pascal Vimenet.

Metamorphosis. Fantasty Visions in Starewitch, Švankmajer and the Quay Brothers is a coproduction of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona and La Casa Encendida Fundación Caja Madrid (Madrid), where it will continue, after its run at the CCCB, from 2 October 2014 to 11 January 2015.

Press contact:
Mònica Muñoz, Irene Ruiz tel: 933 064 123 premsa@cccb.org

Opening: Tuesday, 25 March, 7:30pm

CCCB - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
Montalegre, 5 - 08001 Barcelona
From Tuesday to Sunday from 11a.m. to 8p.m.
Closed on non-holiday Mondays
The ticket desk closes half an hour before the Centre's closing time
Price: 6 €
Concessions: 4 € for senior citizens, under-25s, large families, single-parent families and group visits (minimum 15 persons) .
Free admission: under-12s, Friends of the CCCB, senior citizens in possession of a Targeta Rosa, the unwaged. And on Sundays from 3 to 8 p.m., as well as International Museum Day, Museums at Night, and the city festivities of Santa Eulàlia and La Mercè.

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