Exhibition
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.
Truly a visionary writer, J. G. Ballard constructed a body of work marked by recurrent themes and obsessive symbols that is capable of transcending generic codes to decipher the present and propose plausible views of the future.
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 was the author, among many other works, of The Empire of the Sun and Crash, adapted for the cinema by Spielberg and David Cronenberg, respectively.
The sections of the exhibition are:
• "What I believe"
• From Shanghai to Shepperton
• Landscapes of Dream
• Inner space
• Disaster area
• Technology and pornography
• Asepsis and neo-barbarism
• Epilogue
• Bibliographical area
• Ballardian art
Curators: Jordi Costa
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Report "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.
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The director Nacho Vigalondo made this short especially for the CCCB: a one-minute film, shot in Korea with the camera of a cell phone, inspired by the world of British writer J. G. Ballard. On the occasion of the exhibition J. G. Ballard. Autopsy of the New Millennium, the CCCB staged a competition ...
