The Year of Joan Salvat-Babasset, promoted by the Ministry of Culture through the Institute of Catalan Literature (ILC) to commemorate the centenary of
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Untitled (Perfect Lovers), 1987-90 Courtesy Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford
Works by the late American conceptualist Felix Gonzalez-Torres will be shown around city sites in Barcelona, from the Rambla boulevard to the L’Auditori concert hall venue, as part of an exhibition organised by the Museum of Contemporary in Barcelona (MACBA), which will run from 26 March-12 September (subject to Covid-19 restrictions).
“In the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion [the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona] we will be showing Untitled (Loverboy) 1989; at the Rambla del Raval, it will be
Untitled (America), 1994 [an installation of 12 light strings], kindly lent by New York’s Whitney Museum and shown for the first time in some years outdoors. There will also be elements of this installation on the facade of Macba,” says Tanya Barson, the chief curator of MACBA, who organised the exhibition.