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Political Imagery
Political Imagery exhibition at the Fundació Joan Miró
To coincide with the campaign for the parliamentary elections, the Fundació Joan Miró is holding an exhibition entitled Political Imagery, which is set to open on 9 February at 7.30 pm. The exhibition aims to provide the public with an opportunity to reflect on the world of images used by political propaganda specialists. It will include a selection of the most expressive and revealing posters used by the various political parties during the campaign for 15 June 1977, as well as a video montage that will allow the most significant moments of the leaders’ television appearances during that campaign to be seen again on a TV monitor. The main part of the exhibition is dedicated to displaying political images prepared by the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, thereby testing a method of reading the images created by political propagandists on the basis of a large selection of posters and leaflets from 1968 to 1978 from a wide range of sources (American, Soviet, Italian, French, German, English, etc.).
Organised in collaboration with the Fundació Joan Miró, the French Institute of Barcelona and the Faculty of Information Sciences at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona-Bellaterra, the Political Imagery exhibition will be accompanied by the screening of three classic political propaganda films (Escuadrilla, Raza and L’espoir, to be shown on 12, 19 and 20 February at 6.30 pm) as well as four roundtable discussions to take place on 6, 12, 19 and 20 February at 8 pm, featuring specialists from advertising agencies that design electoral campaigns, lecturers from the faculties of Information Sciences of Barcelona-Bellaterra and Madrid, and propaganda officers from the leadership of several Catalan political parties.
The exhibition will run until 25 February (every day except Monday) from 11 am to 8 pm.
