View of the exhibition “Panorama 21. Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls” (“Panorama 21: Notes for an Eye Fire”), MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 22 October 2021–27 February 2022.

View of Eulàlia Rovira’s works “La perla” (The Pearl) and “La llaga” (The Sore), 2021, in the exhibition “Panorama 21. Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls” (“Panorama 21: Notes for an Eye Fire”), MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 22 October 2021–27 February 2022. Curated by Hiuwai Chu and Latitudes. Photo: Paula Becerra.

Eulàlia Rovira’s new work emerged from research into the regeneration of Barcelona’s densely populated El Raval neighbourhood and the demolition and construction in the early 1990s that led to Richard Meier’s emblematic MACBA building.

Collages of found texts and photographs counterpose the tumultuous excavation of the Plaça dels Àngels and the destruction of part of the Casa de la Caritat with the sober modern architecture of the almost complete museum interior.

Hanging from the ceiling of the gallery is a 1:1 replica of one of Meier’s distinctive white MACBA columns. The architect Le Corbusier identified pilotis as one of the principles of modern architecture in 1927. These pillars or columns freed circulation, lifting architectural volumes off the ground, and provided a sense of openness as well as hygiene.

With both its structural and symbolic function in suspension, Rovira’s “deactivated column” (as the artist has termed the sculpture) calls into question the palliative zeal of modern architecture and its complicity in transforming inner-city areas deemed to be blighted and sickly.

INFO:
www.macba.cat/en/exhibitions-activities/exhibitions/notes...

Taken on: January 24, 2022

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Sets appears in: • “Panorama 21. Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls”, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, 22 October 2021–27 February 2022

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