The first exhibition that opens the art and contemporary creation center Chiquita Room is the group show Barcelona Plan B (A cartographic opportunity), which immerses us in the enormous power of transmission of maps to imagine other possible cartographies of this city. Working with maps is to draw a relationship between truth and lie, and […]
Oro, papel, diamante is an exhibition by Teresa Estapé curated by Zaida Trallero. The artist takes these three elements with which valuable goods are made to reflect on the price-value dichotomy. Through different actions, she hides their properties in order to deny their value and make their appearance invisible, thus highlighting the logic of capitalism. […]
Mercat de Sant Antoni. Antes (y después) y después is a photographic project by Asier Rua about the Mercat de Sant Antoni in Barcelona. Deconstructing in order to build. An incomplete image is what we see here. Photography has assumed its capacity to suggest rather than define reality. Having overcome this role, we discover how, […]
Video art, drawing, embroidery and textile, musical composition, engraving, photography, publications, ceramics, painting, installation and performance give life to the exhibition, curated by the director and founder of the space, Laura González Palacios. ARCANA is a trip to the hands of 22 artists who reinterpret the 22 major arcana of the tarot and propose, from […]
Mise en images brings together a selection of artists’ publications based on the accumulation of images. The two editors –so to speak– of this exhibition share a passion for this transverse knowledge. For Rosa Lleó, everything began in the bookshop where she worked in London, as these were the only publications she could “read” while […]
To talk about trees is a project by Sara Agudo Millán that reflects on the way we perceive our current relationship with nature and the environmental crisis. The exhibition consists of a publication displayed in the space that compiles texts from different sources, a series of records, photographs and an ephemeral installation of plant elements. […]
Time Bends as We Come Closer is an exhibition by Pedro Torres as part of Barcelona Gallery Weekend. The exhibition is about the curvature of the spacetime and our relationship with the force of gravity. In classical mechanics, gravitation is an attractiveforce that acts between bodies with mass, but since the general theory of relativity […]
When the passion for artist’s books is the point of union between two projects, the magic is printed directly on the paper. Because those of us who publish or work with the book as an artistic support are a kind of tribe, who recognise each other and become aware of the common desire for this […]
Ubi Consistam is a project by Marina Sagona on the construction but also on the diffusion of identity. This Latin quotation is used to express the idea of a stable point and also the search for one's own identity. As Archimedes said, "give me a fulcrum and I will see the earth". The project began […]
On 6 March at 6 p.m., to close the exhibition Ubi Consistam by Marina Sagona, we present the first edition of the artist's book of the same name, the result of the artist's residency at Chiquita Room. The publication, which takes the form of a passport, also includes a text by the curator Kosme de […]
Reconstructión is a project by Nathalie Rey that hybridizes production and exhibition of the work Composición con restos de peluches IV (cell) which consists in its complete version in a circular space of approximately 5.5 m in diameter (interior) delimited by 12 canvases in which are sewn small pieces of multicolored fabric from the dismemberment […]
The Yellow Book es un proyecto del artista Jaro Varga, comisariado por Erich Weiss, que cuestiona la universalidad del conocimiento hegemónico a través de los libros y las bibliotecas. Entre el 15 de marzo y el 15 de mayo, Varga presenta una lectura crítica comparativa de los fondos de la Biblioteca Pública Arús, la de […]
After last year we had to celebrate Sant Jordi by post with our collectors, this year, with great enthusiasm and excitement, we return to pay tribute to Sant Jordi as before. From early in the morning and throughout the day we will again take the table to the street and spread books and flowers on […]
We extend Sant Jordi beyond the day of the 23rd, to a whole weekend full of books. In the room we have a special interest in epistolary literature, that is why we will dedicate Saturday to the reading and performing of letters in beautiful epistolary relationships such as: Alejandra Pizanik and Julio Cortazar, Emily Dickinson […]
In March we started a correspondence between our library and the diffuse library of La Escocesa. The artists Erica Volpini and Silvia Renda of the collective Radial Radiant and Ezequiel Soriano have proposed a dialogue between our books around the theme of the walk. Understood as a path, as a drift, as a rhizomatic association […]
We are delighted to present the limited edition of the folder Elle était là / Ella estaba allí by Esther Ferrer, made up of 5 photographs on acetate and 3 combinable coloured backgrounds, accompanied by a poem by the artist and a text by Eduard Escoffet. Presented in a beautiful box, Esther Ferrer proposes with […]
As part of the exhibition The Yellow Book, the artist Jaro Varga will share the progress of his comparative reading between the collection of the oldest library in Barcelona, the Biblioteca Pública Arús, and his own personal library. To match them, he exchanges their covers by drawing on transparent dust jackets. In situ, we will […]
If the library could talk. Challenging the concept of the library Two artist Kudzanai Chiurai and Jaro Varga will be in conversation on the concept of the library and its decolonisation. The starting point of the exchange are the projects what artistst developed separatly. Jaro Varga’s The Yellow Book is currently on the show in […]