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Menene Gras is the Director of Culture and Exhibitions at Casa Asia (Barcelona and Madrid) since 2003. With a PhD from the University of Barcelona, Menene Gras is an art critic, curator and former professor. Before that, she was Director of Culture and Exhibitions at the Instituto de Cooperación Iberoamericana (now Casa America de Catalunya) and she is also the current Director of the Asian Film festival. Author of essays, catalogues, anthologies and four books of poetry, shewas the Art Correspondant for Art Forum for more than twelve years and wrrote for the most important Spanish newspapers.
Recent highlights of her professional career include exhibitions and publication, such as Is that Beauty? (2016-2017), The House and the Labyrinth (2015), El Jardín japonés: Topografías del vacío (2014), Chiharu Shiota. The hand lines (2014) and Beijing times(2011).

In 2015 she was awarded by ACCA for the Video Art Project Languages and Aesthetics of Spanish Video Art as the best Spanish exhibition made abroad. She currently lives and works in Barcelona.

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MA YANSONG

Casa Asia, Fundación ICOMAD works in forward-looking environments developing futuristic architecture based on a contemporary interpretation of the eastern spirit of nature

From (Global) Modernity to (Local) Tradition / Entre la modernidad (global) y la tradicion (local) Menene Gras MAD works in forward-looking environments developing futuristic architecture based on a contemporary interpretation of the eastern spirit of nature. All of MAD's projects - from residential complexes or offices to cultural centres - desire to protect a sense of community and orientation toward nature, offering people the freedom to develop their own experience. Founded in 2004 by Ma Yansong, the office first earned worldwide attention in 2006 by winning an international competition to design a residential tower near Toronto, expected to be completed in the summer of 2012. MAD has been commissioned by clients of all backgrounds, leading to an intriguing combination of diverse project designs. MAD's ongoing projects include two major cultural projects in Harbin: the China Wood Sculpture Museum and Harbin Culture Island, an opera house and cultural center that will retain the original wetlands as an urban park between the old and new city. MAD is led by Ma Yansong, Dang Qun

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Chiharu Shiota (SP ED.)

Menene GrasCasa Asia presents the contents of the first exhibition by Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, 1972) in Barcelona, showing installations integrated in a unique project at its headquarters.

Las líneas de la mano Chiharu Shiota Casa Asia presents the contents of the first exhibition by Chiharu Shiota (Osaka, 1972) in Barcelona, showing installations integrated in a unique project at its headquarters. Shiota’s installations produce their own spaces, where hundreds of invisible threads that bond us to things can be seen. In these domestic scenarios she proposes, threads become bridges between a bride’s dress and the absent subject, a piano, suitcases and a mirror. In her work, these threads are veins with tears, fear for abyss, life and death; threads that are plots of particular and universal stories, interweaving like the inverted roots of a tree, just like a rhizome through multiple branches that hold up the relationship between she and the world. EBOOK VERSION

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