àngels barcelona

Located in Barcelona's Raval district, àngels barcelona operates as a platform for contemporary artistic manifestations, with the aim of transcending disciplines and promoting critical thinking by developing a programme that brings together collaborations with artists, curators and other cultural agents at a local and international level. The gallery is a space where historical, social, political and media discourses are rethought. àngels barcelona builds, promotes and explores new cultural bridges, as well as experimental artistic practices.

Represented artists:

Daniel G. Andújar, Cecilia Bengolea, Carlos Casas, Lúa Coderch, Peter Downsbrough, Marcelo Expósito, Harun Farocki, Esther Ferrer, Joan Fontcuberta, Ion Grigorescu, Daniela Ortiz, Claudia Pagès, Mabel Palacín, Jaime Pitarch, Mònica Planes, Oliver Ressler, Jorge Ribalta, Pedro G. Romero, Michael Snow, Ania Soliman, Oriol Vilanova, Richard T. Walker

In the minicinema space, we present a series of video works by Rogelio López Cuenca (Málaga, 1959) that explore the exploitation of the figure and brand of Picasso. These videos are part of a project exhibited in 2023/24 in differents Spanish museums in the occasion of the Picasso Year celebration. Some issues in relation of this selected videos are: the romantic roots of the myth of the genius and his popularity, the contradictions of the artist around the advertisements and the role of art, the abuse of the Picasso's name by commercial brands or the use of his name for real estate promotions.