ALIMENTARIA 26-29 MARCH 2012

Alimentaria is one of the most important food and drinks trade shows in the world. This fact is recognised by the major international operators in food and drink manufacturing, distribution and trade. This is a benchmark event whose success derives from highly specialised offerings, innovation and a tireless commitment to the show's international focus.

26-29 March 2012, Alimentaria will once again become an international business centre for all professionals with ties to the food and drinks industry.

More than 140,000 international operators from the food and drinks industry visit the show to meet with suppliers, network and find new products to entice their customers.

Alimentaria Barcelona the most important International Food and Drinks Exhibition in Spain and one of the world’s premier shows.
The event’s division into sectors, its innovative, creative and dynamic atmosphere, its professional spirit and its international prominence represent the keys to its success.

Not only is Alimentaria a huge international market, but it is also a venue for dialogue, exchange, information and knowledge, as well as a place to spot trends. Top experts, the most authoritative voices, acknowledged and proven reliability are the common features of the broad spectrum of activities, forums, conferences and workshops scheduled during the show. Alimentaria also offers your company the opportunity to take part in all of these to achieve maximum visibility and recognition.


                                                             

PICASSO EXHIBITION-A COLLAGE BEFORE A COLLAGE

Pablo Picasso invented collage as an artistic technique around the spring of 1912. But long before this, in Barcelona in March 1899, he made a drawing in which he glued a technically reproduced image: the portrait of an actress. We now know that this piece is a picture card from a matchbox, which were very popular in the late nineteenth century.

From the peculiarity of the work, this small exhibition explores the new visuality of this period in which drawings and photographs vied for position in the popular illustrated papers and magazines, the boom in the mass production of printed images, which inundated everyday life, and the vogue for collecting them that seized a large part of the population.

The exhibion " A collage before Collage. Picasso 1899" revolves around this work and the reasons which led the young the young Picasso to stick a printed image on on of his painting. The exhibition invites us to explore the interest of Picasso in serial copies and it will also contextualize the obsession of cutting  and pasting which was a pastime of the society at that time.

Place: Museu Picasso | Montcada, 15-23 08003 Barcelona 

Web site: http://www.bcn.cat/museupicasso/ca/exposicions/encurs.html

Opening time: Tuesday through Sunday (including holidays) 10 am to 8 pm.

ZURICH MARATO DE BARCELONA

The marathon of Barcelona 2012 will take place on March 25th 2012. Barcelona will have more than 15.000 runners in this new edition of the Barcelona’s marathon.
The race start at 8.30am in Avingunda Maria Cristina  (Plaza Espanya) and it is expected that the first runner will end at 10:40 am. The time limit for finishing the marathon is 6 hours.

If you really like sports or real challenge, participating in the marathon of Barcelona 2012 is a great opportunity to visit us.