Tuesday, January 11, 2005

Caixa Forum

Caixa Forum
Caixa Forum,
originally uploaded by cvraman.
Caixa Forum, the social and cultural centre of the "La Caixa" foundation. It is located in an ancient factory of Montjuic, a work by the modernist Catalan architect Puig, it is a huge cultural centre of the "La Caixa" Foundation, with 3,000 square mts. Caixaforum is divided into three spaces, a mediateca and two polivalent saloons. Here one can find one of the largest contemporary art collections of Spain, with over 800 works by national and foreign artists. The lead area is permanent and occasionally exhibitions of modern and contemporary art as well as the last trends in plastic arts and photography are held. A state of art auditorium for 350 spectators is used for different purposes from cinema to concerts.
When we went there we saw "Li Zhensheng" - a chinese photographers collection, Rodin's collection of sculptures & Giuseppe Penone's production of body of work, which expresses a relationship with nature.