LateRooms.com - Barcelona Museum Welcomes Excess of Yang
Sophie Whetnall's Excess of Yang is on display until June 26th and could please art lovers in the way that the self-portrait has been created.

BARCELONA, SPAIN, May 14, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- The Excess of Yang is now open at Barcelona's Joan Miro Foundation and offers viewers a "passionate metaphor" of artist Sophie Whetnall's experience as a woman through the medium of sound and video.

Running until June 26th, the exhibition is a self-portrait that ventures deep into the inner workings of Whetnall's psyche and explores latent violence and powerful silences through her work and makes for an intriguing proposition for guests at Barcelona hotels.

"It is this tension in all her self-portraits that enables Whettnall to communicate so well the silence that prevails present in her art - a silence that is often hard and dense and is radically opposite to noise and lies," explained the venue.

Brussels-born artist Whetnall has created other self-portraits before, such as Shadow Boxing and Conversation Piece, made in 2004 and 2005 respectively, but The Excess of Yang takes a new approach by incorporating the oriental philosophy of yin and yang.

The organisers revealed that the yang side of this belief system tend to relate to male qualities, action, light and movement, with an excess of yang potentially leading to stress, reckless driving and a lack of sleep.

Tickets for the temporary exhibition are priced at EUR4 (GBP3.40), although a ticket to enter all areas of the Joan Miro Foundation can be bought for EUR8.50.

Doors are open at the venue from Tuesday to Saturday 10:00 to 19:00 (local time), 10:00 to 21:30 on Thursdays and 10:00 to 14:30 on Sundays.

If visitors arrive before June 7th, they could also check out a display entitled Murals, which includes work from across the globe.

For more information on this event visit the Joan Miro Foundation website or contact the venue on +34 934 439 470.

"The Excess of Yang is likely to be popular," said Jess Reading, head of marketing at LateRooms. "LateRooms strongly recommends people considering attending to book hoteles en Barcelona as soon as possible."

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