The exhibition “Sense Títol” takes the city artistic side to the Faculty of Fine Arts
For the sixteenth year in a row, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona is turning into a huge art gallery to show a selection of works by the latest student promotion (2013-2017) in the exhibition “Sense Títolʼ17”. This exhibition, coordinated by the Vice-Rectorʼs Office for Culture of the Faculty and which has the participation of all departments of the center, gathers doubts, researches and searches on the language of art, which each student has worked on in the final part of their bachelor studies. The result is a high level of proposals that bring different intellectual reflections on aspects of the contemporary society. For the first time, this year, the exhibition offers a series of activities and speeches aiming to bring the students closer to the artistic side of the city of Barcelona. These activities will take place during all the week and entrance is free.
For the sixteenth year in a row, the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Barcelona is turning into a huge art gallery to show a selection of works by the latest student promotion (2013-2017) in the exhibition “Sense Títolʼ17”. This exhibition, coordinated by the Vice-Rectorʼs Office for Culture of the Faculty and which has the participation of all departments of the center, gathers doubts, researches and searches on the language of art, which each student has worked on in the final part of their bachelor studies. The result is a high level of proposals that bring different intellectual reflections on aspects of the contemporary society. For the first time, this year, the exhibition offers a series of activities and speeches aiming to bring the students closer to the artistic side of the city of Barcelona. These activities will take place during all the week and entrance is free.
The places for the exhibition hold the degree show, which takes place over the whole Faculty and makes up for a big exhibition, with more than fifty works chosen by the lecturers, in order to share the best works made by recent graduates. Also, the heritage fund of the University, PATIM, receives the chosen acquisitions from the exhibited works. Drawings, paintings, engraving, sculpture, photography, video art or installation art, are some of the specialties in the exhibition, which can be visited until Thursday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.The closing ceremony will be on Friday October 6, at 3 p.m.
This year, the exhibition has a program of speeches and presentations that aim to provide the students with the contact to reach different art galleries in Barcelona, such as Sala Parés or Fundació Vilacasas, to help students at the beginning of their professional career. The activities will be carried out at “sala dʼactes” room of the Faculty, and most of them will take place on October 4 and 5.
Tuenti Urban Art Project
Also, the Faculty is holding Tuenti Urban Art Project these days, an initiative launched by the phone company Tuenti, with the commissioner of Urvanity Art, to link the professional path of urban art with the students of Fine Arts from five Spanish universities. This initiative started in the Faculty of Fine Arts of the UB, where the artist Enric Sant is performing an artistic intervention, from October 2 to 6, in a 6 x 18 meter wall at the Florensa building. In addition, the artist DosJotas will give the workshop “Urban environment and public space”, on October 4 and 5, to the students of Urban Design: Art, City, Society.
The program closes with a lecture series, debates and presentations on the artistic practices performed in the urban context, to take place on October 4 and 5 in the “sala dʼactes” room of the Faculty, with the speeches by Belén Palanco, journalist specialized in art; Seleka, artist and co-director of Delimbo Gallery; Carmen Andreu-Lara, tenured lecturer at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Seville; Archadi Poch, researcher on urban creativity, and Juan Bautista Peiró, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts Sant Carles of the Universitat Politècnica de València. All activities are free.
More information in the website "Sense títolʼ17"