The challenge was a big one: to put together an exhibition about the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard (1930-2022), "one of the most relevant visual artists and thinkers about the image of the last hundred years". This is how Manuel Asín describes it, the curator of the exhibition Jean-Luc Godard. The fraternity of images, which can be visited at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge from March 28 to October 4. One of the challenges was to explain Godard in such a way that the exhibition "served as an introduction" to the director of films such as Breathless and Contempt, that it was not just a tour for specialists, that it avoided banal fetishism, and that it allowed for an understanding of the life and work of a mutant and often contradictory thinker. Another challenge has to do with Barcelona, a city where not long ago the CCCB successfully programmed, with public and critical acclaim, an exemplary exhibition about Agnès Varda, another pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague.

He only had a primary school certificate, but his humble origins did not prevent him from obtaining a doctorate at the Sorbonne, despite not having taken any courses. Nor did it prevent him from being a renowned writer and critic of avant-garde art and architecture in France. In addition, Michel Ragon (Marseille, 1924 – Suresnes, 2020) was an interesting and prolific scholar of anarchism, as demonstrated in the historical novel The memory of the vaincus (1990), The memory of the defeated in the Spanish translation published by La Oveja Roja in 2010.