Mulicultural Exhibition in Barcelona
Until April 30 the Casa
Asia in
Barcelona exhibits Citystorie and
Global Cities, which brings together works from different artists, journalists, documentarians, filmmakers and
writers in an interesting reflection on the multicultural
cities in
Asia.
The show is organized in collaboration with Syns ense Editions, Cameo,
Norma Editorial, Hangar. Org, Sergio Caro, Gao Golem Magee Gallery,
Gallery Vertigo and Marta Cervera.

The project is a cultural dialogue between
Asia and
Europe, a strategy that is designed to take a look at new cities in
Asia. The
documentary model of Francesco Jodice, argues that exclusion is a key factor in the deterioration and social disintegration of
cities. This has been gathered in stories that are grouped in the sample in each of their content and media, among which is novel,
documentary, animation,
multimedia facilities. In this way it forms the story so that the viewer is integrated into the dialogue.
Asian
cities have experienced in recent decades a
rapid deterioration with a consequent loss in quality of life which its
people try to overcome, the difficulties of housing, stable jobs and
services is an example. This observable reality has emerged,
paradoxically, by the rapid economic growth that has focused on them and
that, attracts many human groups.
Asia’s population reaches over 2,500 million people, basically half
of the worlds population. Although we often speak of economic growth in
this region as a miracle, growth has been differentiated both internally
and externally in each country.
Japan as a developed country, is not the same as Myanmar and Nepal,
where growth was delayed. They did not seem to grow on a daily basis day
along with a stable population growth in contrast with its
environmental deterioration. Neither have developed a growth factor with
an equal income distribution. Today a worker in Beijing earns more
than a farmer in northern China, forcing the immigration of people from
deprived areas to the cities.
This has meant that
cities today are centers of new problems resulting from overcrowding. Thus we can see that pollution in the
cities of
Asia are of concern and exceed the standards allowed by international agencies.
To represent these problems in a conceptual manner Chinese artists
have worked with different media, using art activities and the most
recurrent installations. Keep in mind that many artists of this country
grew in the midst of the Cultural Revolution, where creation was
regulated by cultural policy from the State, therefore the concept of
art is experimental, it is a new look and goes back to the 90′s.
The sample has also an interesting
documentary on the situation in Afghanistan, where war has been a factor in the growth of
cities and a guillotine of new social conflicts.