A handful of autumn art

Plenty of ab­strac­tion

The Fun­dació Catalunya-La Pe­dr­era and the Fun­dació Suñol will share a pro­ject that draws on the col­lec­tion of the Museo de Arte Ab­stracto Español in Cuenca. La Pe­dr­era will show works by top in­ter­na­tional names in ab­stract art (Pol­lock, Rothko, De Koon­ing, Dubuf­fet...) while until Jan­u­ary 14 the Fun­dació Suñol will fea­ture work by seven con­tem­po­rary artists.

No lover of good paint­ing should miss Paul Klee and the Se­crets of Na­ture (Oc­to­ber 21-Feb­ru­ary 12), on at the Fun­dació Miró in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Zen­trum Paul Klee in Bern. The ex­hi­bi­tion will in­voke his fas­ci­na­tion with nat­ural phe­nom­ena as well as con­trast­ing his work with that of fe­male artists who were his over­looked con­tem­po­raries (Gabriele Münter, Emma Kunz, Maruja Mallo and San­dra Knecht).

An­other great artist, Dalí, also gets an ex­hi­bi­tion this au­tumn, but in this case it is dig­i­tal and im­mer­sive. On at the Ideal dig­i­tal arts cen­ter, the ex­hi­bi­tion uses lat­est tech­nol­ogy to take a deep dive into the mind and work of the sur­re­al­ist ge­nius.

An­other ex­cen­tric and sin­gu­lar cre­ator is Al­bert Serra, the film­maker who is best loved by the art world. This au­tumn, Serra will take cen­tre stage at Fabra and Coats, which ded­i­cate an ex­hi­bi­tion to him (No­vem­ber 19-Jan­u­ary 12) and the pre­miere in Spain of Els tres por­quets, the 120-hour-long movie that he pre­sented at the Doc­u­menta fair in 2012.

An­other must-see is the ex­hi­bi­tion that the Pi­casso Mu­seum will de­vote to Daniel Henry Kah­n­weiler (No­vem­ber 18-March 19), the great mer­chant of cu­bist artists.

Cul­tural re­sis­tance

Po­lit­i­cal art will also fea­ture, in the Born Cen­tre de Cul­tura i Memòria, with the ex­hi­bi­tion, An­other end. THE RE­MAIN­DER, which looks at art and an­tifas­cism (No­vem­ber 18-April 16) through the work of 20 cre­ators and the cul­tural re­sis­tance in the post-Civil War pe­riod.

Caix­aFo­rum Barcelona has three pro­pos­als: Comic. Dreams and His­tory looks at comics as tools of thought until Jan­u­ary 15, while from No­vem­ber 24 an ex­hi­bi­tion be­gins that delves into the pri­vate col­lec­tions of 10 artists, and from De­cem­ber 1 six Egypt­ian mum­mies from the British Mu­seum will help shine a light on new tech­nol­ogy.

More comics

The comic, a medium for so long de­spised in the tem­ples of art, will get an­other show­case in the Cen­tre of Con­tem­po­rary Cul­ture of Barcelona (CCCB), which will ex­hibit the work of nine young avant-garde au­thors: Bárbara Alca, Marta Cartu, Genie Es­pinosa, Ana Galvañ, Nadia Hafid, Conxita Her­rero, María Medem, Miriam Per­sand and Roberta Vázquez (De­cem­ber 2-May 14). CCCB will also pre­sent, for yet an­other year, the win­ning pho­tographs of the World Press Photo con­test (No­vem­ber 4-De­cem­ber 11.)

En­thu­si­asts of Cata­lan pho­tog­ra­phy have at least four ap­point­ments that they can­not af­ford to miss. In chrono­log­i­cal order they are: Eu­geni For­cano in the Cul­tural Fac­tory of Ter­rassa, which has just been in­au­gu­rated; Gabriel Casas at Palau Robert (Oc­to­ber 10-Jan­u­ary 29); Jordi Pol at the Arxiu Fo­togràfic de Barcelona (No­vem­ber 23-April 23), and Francesc Català-Roca at the Col·legi d’Ar­qui­tectes de Catalunya (De­cem­ber 1-March 4).