This exhibition presents a selection of works that illustrate the theme of the Palau de la Música Catalana's 2024-25 season, heroism in music, and it does so with very suggestive images.

In the exhibition we find images from several of Armstrong's photographic series. Those belonging to Renaissance, Falling through history or Figures incorporate as a central theme the human figure inspired by classical and Greek art, and are distinguished by the use of color and blurring. The original designs capture the human figure in a specific action, either from biblical, mythological or historical scenes. Bill Armstrong's ultimate goal, which coincides with the theme of the season, is to represent the prevailing humanity behind the archetypal concept of hero or anti-hero, while updating and approximating to current reality a concept that has historically attributed to these characteristic supernatural figures. The heroes and anti-heroes of today are among us, and we can identify ourselves as such at some point in our lives. Ultimately, heroes or anti-heroes, but always human.

Bill Armstrong was born in Concord (Massachusetts, USA) in 1952 and is based in New York. He graduated magna cum laude in art history from Boston University and his extensive artistic career includes works in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Barbara Museum of Art and Getty Center, in the United States, and also in several European countries, such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and Bibliothèque Nationale in France.

The Vatican Museums host the mural of nine photographs entitled Sistine Chapel gestures and collect some of the most iconic figures from the monumental fresco that Michelangelo painted in the Sistine Chapel.