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7/11/2005

BAC! 05

Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona CCCB, Barcelona

In the framework of year six of BAC! the CCCB presents Code_V , with the participation of 82 artists, including Bill Viola, Orlan, Erwin Olaf, Floria Sigismondi and Jim Goldberg.

BAC! is a festival for the diffusion of the various disciplines of contemporary art that promote the participation of both up-and-coming and established artists, hosted by different venues. This year's festival turns around the theme of violence.

La Santa Cultural Projects is an association directed by Gigi R.Harrington and Juan José Fernández, founded in 1993 with the aim to promote artistic events different form what museums and conventional galleries normally show. As a result, La Santa marked an experimental and creative line of work that did not exist in Barcelona, and was soon converted into a well-known platform for the promotion of contemporary artists. In its twelve years of existence, La Santa has preserved its interest to diffuse plurality in contemporary art languages.

The whole philosophy of this work done throughout the years found its best expression in the organisation of one of La Santa’s most important events: the organisation of the six-year-old BAC! Festival.

The BAC! Festival (International Contemporary Art Festival of Barcelona) begins in 2000 from the urge to create an art festival showing all different versions of contemporary art and encouraging the participation of emerging artists from Spain and abroad.

In its new edition the BAC! Festival (Barcelona Arte Contemporáneo) aims to maintain its initial spirit: a Festival invading the city of Barcelona with diverse and dynamic artistic suggestions, which help us approach the way of seeing contemporary art. It should be mentioned that this year’s works have been selected under one common axis, violence. All artists, collaborating spaces and group exhibitions have been inspired in one way or another by the different versions of violence.

This year’s BAC! starts with the opening of its main exhibition at the CCCB. CCCB’s participation is essential, not only for being a space representing the culture and contemporary art of Barcelona, but also because its work agrees to our working line, not to mention that it is a cultural centre of international prestige. For the exhibition BAC! 05 Code_V (opening on the 8th November) we have counted on the participation of artists from all over the world. Among guest artists we can highlight the international presence of Orlan, Bill Viola, Erwin Olaf, Jim Goldberg and Floria Sigismondi, as well as the national Ouka Leele, Paco y Manolo, Pau Ros and Ricardo Iglesias. Due to last edition’s fluent visits, this year’s VideoArte section will be daily projected in a special room of the exhibition Code_V. VideoArte is divided in two sections, one consisting of a selection of works that were presented for the Festival’s open call for projects, the second being curated by Luca Curci, founder of The International ArtExpo Group.

In La Santa’s premises – a space of contemporary creation and experimentation and the main base of the BAC! Festival – the big exhibition “Shots” will be presented, gathering the most important artist group after the CCCB show.

The PC 177 Gallery houses a small selection of the Festival’s artists. This is a quite intimate space, situated in a typical flat of the Eixample neighbourhood of Barcelona, which fulfils one of the Festival´s main objectives, to establish a closer relation to the artworks.

Apart from those three places, which we consider the Festival’s vertebral column, the following art spaces (galleries, art schools and studios) also contribute to the configuration of the Festival’s global character and are part of our OFF_BAC!: Espacio Theredoom, Galería Antonio de Barnola, freud b’ ART, Da Vinci Escola d’ Art, Taller Caminal, Escuela IDEP Gran Via, Iris Galería d’ Art, OFF Ample and Iguapop Gallery.

In search of more exhibition formats and repeating the structure of last year’s edition, we also count on the collaboration of magazines that have conducted specific editorial projects for the Festival, directly linked to its topic, revealing the power and the open space to creativity this sector can offer. The media that have accepted our experimental proposal are: Actitudes magazine, Revista Mu, Monocläb, Neo2, Lô Magazine and Salir Salir Urban.

The critical line followed by BAC! Festival in the previous five editions will be even stronger this year. The presented projects follow the idea of creating a dynamic dialogue between the artwork, the viewer and his/her environment.

Year after year, as well as with this 6th edition, BAC! has achieved to consolidate itself as one of the most important local festivals with a great impact abroad, thanks to a faithful audience and of course the initiative and creativity of the artists themselves, who form the pillars of this Festival.

BAC! 05 International Festival of Contemporary Art in Barcelona presents this year’s official picture:

“LI WEI FALLS TO THE CAR” from the Chinese artist LI WEI.
“Some things are clear and true, some others are dark and unreal. In between there is a universe of dazzling, half-real things”. Born in 1970 in the province of Hubei, Li Wei is a versatile artist, photographer and performer, whose works amaze for their originality sometimes on the verge of madness.

His works reflect individual vulnerability, transmitting the psychological tensions of a cruel and competitive society.

The digital intervention is at the minimum, if not nonexistent: Li Wei uses mirrors, transparent cables, scaffoldings and above all a great physical resistance that lead him to make “strange experimentations”.
Wei currently lives in Beijing and is considered one of the most original exponents of China’s new generation of artists. He has participated in the Shangai 2000 and the Prague 2003 biennials, the group exhibition “Between Past and Future” dedicated to Chinese art, presented in New York and Chicago in 2004, as well as in the last edition of the Venice Biennale.

Artists:
ALEX FERCAM
BILL VIOLA
BORIS HOOPEK
boyer TRESACO
c3h
DIEGO GIL
DIVA
ERWIN OLAF
FABRIZIO CONTARINO
FERNANDO MOLINA
FLORIA SIGISMONDI
FRANCESC SABATER
FREAKLÃœB
GIANLUCA D’APUZZO
GUILLERMO LLOBET & GENIN ANDRADA
HIROSHI SHIMAMURA
HUGO ALONSO RUIZ
HUGO JAMES BRUCE
HUGO ORLANDINI
ILANA & PAULA OSPINA
IVANS
JESUS ALONSO
JIM GOLDBERG
JORDI DOMINGO
JOSÉ MORRAJA & MARISOL SIMÓ
MR. HIERRO
KATIA GIULIANI
LORENA GUZMAN
MAPI GIL
MAUD TAYLOR
MEOST
MIGUEL NAVARRO
MISS VAN
MONSA DOMINGO
NIENKE KLUNDER
ORLAN
OUKA LEELE
PACO Y MANOLO
PAU ROS
PEDRO TORRES
PENÉLOPE MALDONADO & DANIELE GILARDI
PETER KLASEN
PETER VOIGT
RICARD AYMAR
RICARDO IGLESIAS
ROOPE ALHO
SABRINA VOSS
SANTIAGO GARCÉS
SANTIAGO TACCETTI
SILVANA SOLIVELLA
SIXEART
T. CHARNAN
TXAMPA
VERONIQUE SERFASS
VÍCTOR CASTILLO

Opening:
Tuesday, 8th of November at 20.00 on the third floor of the CCCB (Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona)

José Morraja & Marisol Simó
STAR GENERATION + IRONCAT present A PERFECT CRIME (audiovisual project) starting at 21.30 in the hall of CCCB.

videoarte cccb:
VIDEO-ART 1
CURATED BY GIGI R.HARRINGTON AND JUAN JOSÉ FERNÁNDEZ AINOA TILVE & PABLO

CARMEN BRINCONES
DICIEMBRE AGUILAR
GUILLERMO LLOBET & FLORENCIO ARAEZ
HECTOR ACOSTA
MARION LAURENT
MIDRAMA
RYAN RIVERA
TAMARA ZAITSEVA

VIDEO-ART 2
CURATED BY LUCA CURCI

AGNESE PURGATORIO
GEERT WACHTELAER
GILLES DELALEX & THOMAS WESSEL-CESSIEUX
HEIDI VOGELS
JASON JAGELLO
KARENINA FABRIZZI
LUCA CURCI & FABIANA ROSCIOLI
MICHEL MATROTOTARO
ROBERT BOYD
SARINA KHAN REDDY

Contemporary art is more and more committed to the representation of violence, investigating how the visual culture of violence has affected our society. Contemporary problems regarding domestic abuse, rape, acts of homophoby, genocide, racial violence, war crimes and executions are subject-matters that have been widely and critically analysed in art. Artists use their own experiences or are inspired by pictures and historical facts. Art might be able to give voice to those who have been ignored, silenced, as well as to unveil what is suppressed or hidden.

More info on http://www.bacfestival.com

CCCB
Montalegre, 5 08001 Barcelona
Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays: 11 to 2 and 4 to 8
Wednesdays and Saturdays: 11 to 8
Sundays and bank holidays: 11 to 7

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