![]() ![]() This exhibition sets out to offer an itinerary through Ballards creative universe: his themes 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 anti-utopia and disaster. Ballard has 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. ![]() Deep down, the themes are always the same: the keys of contemporaneity and the pathologies of our immediate future, as though he were carrying out the autopsy of a stillborn future. His visionary imagination grew in the realms of dreamlike, subjective science fiction and gradually came to embrace an aseptic hyperrealism. The literary work of James Graham Ballard (Shanghai, 1930), the paradigm cult writer, has for some time now been looking ahead to dissect the world in which we are now living. The exhibition features the English writer of novels and short stories, considered one of the most intelligent, seminal voices of contemporary fiction. An Autopsy of the New Millennium, from 22 July to 2 November 2008. BARCELONA.- The CCCB presents the exhibition JG Ballard. ![]()
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