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Popcèntric
50 years of Catalan pop
Exhibition
Popcèntric is a broad-based look at the latest Catalan pop, which has been stressing its origins for the last 50 years. The pop landscape, with its rock, folk, psychedelic and auteur variants, has a diversity that would have been unimaginable half a century ago, when Concèntric, the first label that contributed to the pop culture revolution of the 1960s in Catalonia, was founded. Pop culture has been the core that has permeated all areas outside music, through the development of the arts, audiovisuals, fashion and design.
The exhibition Popcèntric – 50 years of Catalan pop starts with an immersion in the history of Concèntric and La Cova del Drac – with Guillem d’Efak as the leading figure in March 1965 – over five decades of pop in Catalonia, while discovering 20 key artists on the emerging scene. It is a musical, graphic and visual journey from Pau Riba, Guillem d’Efak, Maria del Mar Bonet and Lluís Llach to La Iaia, Mourn, El Petit de Cal Eril and Núria Graham within a landscape of concentric circles that emerged in the 60s, when around eighty albums were released in Catalan, and takes us as far as 2015, in an artistic explosion of quality and diversity that has led to a tenfold increase in productions - nearly a thousand references were released in 2014.
Popcèntric is a sonic portrait of Catalan pop, the popular culture of our musical landscape. From the "songs of today" that Lluís Serrahima and the Nova Cançó demanded – the first mass expression of pop and modern Catalan music, with Concèntric and Edigsa as the driving forces – to the 100 best records and songs on the Catalan pop-rock jukebox released by companies inheriting that legacy, such as Blau/DiscMedi, Picap and Música Global, to the current proliferation of dozens of small labels to explain who we are and where we're headed.
- Curated by Grup Enderrock (Lluís Gendrau, Jordi Novell, Rosa E. Massaguer, Joaquim Vilarnau)
- Exhibition design Emiliana Design Studio
- Graphic design David Torrents and Silvia Míguez
- Organized by Arts Santa Mònica - Department of Culture
- In collaboration with BankRobber
