Let’s visit the exhibition Art in Stone at the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera | Activity

The Catalunya La Pedrera Foundation invites MACBA Friends to visit Art in Stonean exhibition that highlights the work in stone of some of the 20th century’s leading sculptors.

This exhibition at the Fundació Catalunya La Pedrera celebrates the stone structure of the Casa Milà – popularly known as La Pedrera – by using the interior of this building by Antoni Gaudí to display some of the late work in stone by eight historical sculptors who were practically contemporary with one another, born as they were between the late 19th and early 20th centuries: Hans Arp, Louise Bourgeois, Eduardo Chillida, Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi and Jorge Oteiza. The exhibition also describes the artistic paths, often parallel, that led them to explore new forms of expression, pointing out points where they converge.

Apart from these abstract works, entering into a profound dialogue with La Pedrera, a complementary section allows us to see how the “pioneers” of modern sculpture stimulated the generation that followed them – Stephen Cox, Luciano Fabro, Barry Flanagan, Christina Iglesias, Anish Kapoor, Ettore Spalletti and Alison Wilding – and also how stone inspired new conceptual ways of working.