Redesign Front Of A House

Where will our grandparents? (Work in progress)


We peers in difficult times, whether you've all heard of the crisis, but it is noted that in the ordinary grandfather.

to the economic crisis in Barcelona we were together a cultural crisis and whether, because of the housing bubble, grandparents and stocks are losing their construction, where you could hear phrases like

- Put more mortar!
- This mixture is badly done!
- This did not happen with Franco!

now are losing their spaces for picnic. We are witnessing the end of cultural centers and will never think that the elderly people without their openings and piscolavis, who hopes one day he was excited noted in the agenda, probably to see the work of a grandchild or some unknown artist that time.

We are witnessing a historic moment, Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwithout a doubt one of the largest English cities with a cultural and social fabric CASM has lost one of their last temples to the exhibition of young artists with innovative proposals.

is interesting to see the role adopted in Catalonia by the civic centers, which in the absence of exhibition spaces have managed to introduce into your program display of these artistic proposals homeless. As a plus, we can say that within the stream of thought that begins to settle in the Netherlands in the late 90's, consider art as a tool with a great educational factor, we can say that the civic centers, designed as spaces learning and social transformation, are a great place and allow the entry of a new type of public often away from an art scene. Although it must be said that in some ways, this welcome from community centers has created a "patch", pretending to leave unresolved aspects of the show, when many times we find that neither the infrastructure nor the budget and the staff are suitable. Because sometimes carried out by inexperienced people, lack of knowledge and therefore without a view, in regard to art.

one hand we have community centers and other museums and right in the middle the largest gaps. The events in Barcelona in recent years with the closure of Metrónom as one of the first great losses, they differ completely from what was experienced in cities such as Madrid, with the creation of a new artistic field where spaces include Slaughterhouse, Conde Duque, policies and proposals as MediaLab_Prado or The House On. It is interesting to make this comparison in order to find explanations to help us reshape the Catalan cultural politics and understand the direction of conductors such as Ferran Barenblit and Manuel Borja-Villel.

Before starting to build new structures in Catalonia, we have to map the terrain in which we are and see if the ground beneath our feet is fertile or not, a swamp where everything tends to sink.

(work in progress)