Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) presents John Cage and Ray Johnson, e-flux

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Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA)Plaça dels Àngels, 108001 Barcelonahttp://www.macba.cat MACBA forthcoming exhibitions:A major retrospective of the works, thoughts and influences of John Cage, as well as an extensive presentation of the work of Ray Johnson, are two major features of the autumn programme at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (MACBA). Cage and Johnson, both American artists, knew each other during their lifetimes. Although independently curated, the decision to show the two exhibitions in the Museum at the same time highlights the fact that both artists were concerned with inventing a language that addressed the ascendency of the contemporary versus the modern. They shared a common attempt to reconfigure the epistemological foundation of the modern project, that is, the ways in which we know what constitutes culture and what does not. Language cannot be reflected in the transparency of signs, therefore through their work we are forced to invent, to create new methods to recall the world.--e-flux