THE JAZZ CENTURY
22.07.09 – 18.10.09
Press conference: 21 July,
at 12 midday
Inauguration: 21 July, at 7 p.m.
Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
C/ Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
Tel. 93 306 41 00 Fax 93 306 41 01
The Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona presents the exhibition “The Jazz Century”, curated by philosopher and art critic Daniel Soutif, which will run from 22 July to 18 October 2009.
Along with the cinema and rock, jazz is one of the most important artistic events of the 20th century. This musical hybrid that emerged in the early years of the last century has run the century through, marking every aspect of world culture with its sounds and rhythms.
“The Jazz Century” presents a chronological account of relations between jazz and the arts throughout the 20th century. It shows us how the sound of jazz has nuanced all the other arts, from painting to photography and from the cinema to literature, not forgetting graphic design and cartoons.
The exhibition is organized chronologically along a timeline off which open many smaller independent exhibitions that showcase relations between jazz and other artistic disciplines, thereby explaining the history of the century using music as a leading thread.
ARTISTS OF THE EXHIBITION
Man Ray, James Blanding Sloan, Miguel Covarrubias, Jan Matulka, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes, Aaron Douglas, Winold Reiss and Carl van Vechten, Josephine Baker, Paul Colin, Jean Cocteau, Paul Morand, Michel Leiris, Georges Bataille, Kees van Dongen, Pablo Picasso, George Grosz, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller, Stuart Davis, Thomas Hart Benton, František Kupka, Alex Steinweiss, Piet Mondrian, William H. Johnson, Cab Calloway, Jean Dubuffet, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, David Stone, Andy Warhol, Josef Albers, Marvin Israel, Burt Goldblatt, Reid Miles, Louis Malle, Michelangelo Antonioni, Tàpies, Tharrats, Ponç, Guinovart, Ornette Coleman, Jackson Pollock, Romare Bearden, Bob Thomson, Alan Davie, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gato Barbieri, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Robert Colescott, Christian Marclay, Lorna Simpson, Jeff Wall, Ralph Ellison, David Hammons.
SECTIONS OF THE EXHIBITION
1. BEFORE 1917
2. THE JAZZ AGE IN THE US 1917-1930
3. HARLEM RENAISSANCE 1917-1936
4. WILD YEARS IN EUROPE 1917-1930
5. THE SWING ERA 1930-1939
6. WARTIME 1939-1945
7. BEBOP 1945-1960 / JAZZ-ART IN BARCELONA
8. WEST COAST JAZZ 1953-1961
9. THE FREE REVOLUTION 1960-1980
10. CONTEMPORARIES 1980-2002
MULTIMEDIA PRESENTATION
http://WWW.CCCB.ORG/ELSEGLEDELJAZZ
GENERAL INFORMATION
“The Jazz Century” is a co-production of the Museo di Arte Moderna di Trento e Rovereto (MART), the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB).
Dates
CCCB – From 22 July to 18 October 2009
Opening times
Tuesday to Sunday and public holidays: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Closed on Mondays except public holidays
Press Service of the CCCB
Mònica Muñoz – Irene Ruiz – Lucía Calvo
Montalegre, 5 – 08001 Barcelona 93 306 41 23/ 93 306 41 43
premsa [at] cccb.org
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