The erotic shop Art Gallery DESIG of Barcelona presents an exhibition of art created by former director of the band 'Eurythmics', the English artist Sandra Turnbull, titled 'ALL ABOUT EVE'. It is a Visual and Social Documentary that mixes different artistic disciplines and that it is themed about the EMANCIPATION OF THE WOMAN.

An extensive period of research so much in the United Kingdom as in the United States and Spain, to highlight the Baghdad Club of Barcelona, it has been part of the process of inspiration of the artist, managing to get to know the girls and the reaction of their customers. Turnbull, represented in Barcelona for over two years by teresarius: promotors d'art, is moved by an uncontrolled passion to explain a positive story with her work, trying to join acceptance and provocation. The joy shines through vivid colors and living compositions. Turnbull shows us a new, thrilling and provocative way, to present the nude, highlighting the artistic qualities of its force and the beauty of the body.

Turnbull has already established like one of the more progressive and inventive erotic artists of the last five years, appearing beside Tracey Emin, Gary Hume and Picasso in the acclaimed show of Michelle Olley's 'Ars Erotics, The Best Modern Erotic Art'.

Private View : Friday 13th of June at 8pm

Dates: 13th of June to 21st of July 2008
Openning Times: Monday to Friday 5 to 9pm. Saturdays 11am to 2pm & 5 to 9pm.
Galeria Desig: C/Mare de Déu dels Desamparats 14-16, 08012 Barcelona www.desig.org

Martín, visual artist born in Seville in 1965 but well established in Barcelona.
We will be able to continue appreciating till the end of June his small format artwork, mainly drawings, in the restaurant La Coqueria of the Zaragoza street, in the neighborhood of El Farró in Sant Gervasi, Barcelona.

The work of Martín highlights because of the brightness of colors and the simplicity of composition, standing out mainly daily objects and several means of transport, like his searched bicycles, elevating them to the category of art in a cheerful and fun way.

La Coqueria
Dates: 8th of May to 30th of June 2008
Saragossa 66, 08006 Barcelona - www.lacoqueria.com
Opening Times: MOnday to Saturday 9am to 4pm and 8pm to 12am

XAVIER RAVENTÓS

Xavier Raventós (Barcelona, 1951) is a son of the period of the image, regarding the cinema as well as the photography.Since he was little he accustomed his eyes to see the human environment like a succession of stills to those that the look had to give heard for that the instants agreed and established the beat of the blood. He become a photographer and of so much to observe the movement through the finder it has becomed sculptor with objects and found material.

The machines and the utensils that we, the humans, have kept on inventing to make our feverish activity easier, are in essence very similar to us regarding the skills of the bodies. Those that know some, have replayed hands, arms, legs and feet. Even they have managed to create with the engines every kind of hearts, much more powerful and safe than those of the living beings. And at the same time, they have managed to establish a kind of nervous circuits -the electronics- that they order by heart and they can take initiatives. This is the thing that now frightens us because it escapes of our control, although we have to think that if we are intelligent enough to create robots that seem intelligent, we will always go from the front. In condition, of sustaining the principle that the spirit is superior to the matter.

This is, precisely, what Xavier Raventós makes with his sculptures. Carried out in his workshop of Rabós in l'Empordà. Because of that I think that without the north wind, which it tunes the wit of those that know how to resist it in spite of being a wind that confuses the minds, step would not have arrived at giving so much exact heard human to his realizations. The irons and the north wind are found and of the dialog that they establish have been born couples who love themselves, women of ice, embraced to the water, animals that they watch over and human beings that have to be born. The wind gives meat to the structures of soldered irons. The drills that are the eyes of Xavier Raventós perforate, but at the same time they make appear the affirmation that creativity it is a source of new life.

Text by Josep Maria Cadena.

On the 15th of June at 8pm he opens an exhibition in the Hotel El Cau of Peratallada. Moreover the Espai Cultural Francolí always has work of this artist.