22 July 2008 – 9 November 2008

J. G. Ballard. Autopsy of the new millennium

This exhibition offers an itinerary through Ballard's creative universe: his times and obsessions, his dissection of the secret keys of the contemporary, the traces of his own life in his fictional body of work, his artistic and literary referents, and his precise, disenchanted intuitions of a future life governed by the concepts of aseptic dystopia and disaster.


Ballard's work represents an open-ended body of work that still has many revelations in store for his readers and the capacity to throw light on the course of our future. An author with an enormous influence on later generations of creators in all disciplines, from fantasy cinema to industrial music, Ballard is the author, among many other works, of The Empire of the Sun and Crash, adapted for the cinema by Spielberg and David Cronenberg, respectively.

Address

CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
c/ Montalegre, 5
08001 Barcelona

http://www.cccb.org/

Opening Hours

Tuesaday-Sunday
11 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Description of the Museum

Exhibitions to transmit ideas that aim to challenge the spectator's way of seeing. Free of rigid thematic constraints, the CCCB conceives exhibitions that are more than just compilations of works. We propose routes that the visitor completes, paths that fork into bold images and concepts, exercises with a clear capacity for experimentation.

Within 10 days
starting exhibitions
ending exhibitions