Illuminations. Visionary Catalonia
18 Feb - 17 May 2009
ILLUMINATIONS. VISIONARY CATALONIA
From 02.18.09 to 05.17.09
"From time to time, Catalan good sense closes its eyes and lets things be"
Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí
(Prologue to Viatges d'Alí Bei, 1932)
This exhibition traces a map of thought and creation in Catalonia, from the times of Ramon Llull up until the present day, on the basis of visionary artists and creators.
Catalonia has been an advanced country due to the intuition and vision of its individualities, open to the trends of European thought and new revolutionary ideologies. This exhibition takes a closer look at the work of these figures in the world of the arts and literature, science and thought, who have created new perspectives and broken with the past.
It is an exhibition about the visionaries and the impassioned whose legacy has opened the doors of modernity in Catalonia for eight centuries:
ABAD, ALOMAR, BARBA, BARRADAS, BATAILLE, BEN, BEY, BERENGUER, BEUYS, BOFILL, BONASTRUC SA PORTA, BROSSA, BUIGAS, CASAS ABARCA, CASELLAS, CATALÀ I PIC, CERDÀ, CHOMÓN, CLAPÉS, CLAVÉ, CIRLOT, COLOM, COLOMER, COMAS I SOLÀ, CRAVAN, CRESQUES, CRISTÒFOL, CUIXART, DALÍ, DEULOFEU, DUCHAMP, EINSTEIN, EULÀLIA, FAGEDA, FERRANT, FERRER I GUÀRDIA, FOIX, FONTCUBERTA, FORTUNY Y MADRAZO, FRANCÉS, GATCPAC, GAUDÍ, GONZÁLEZ, GUAL, GUIMERÀ, JUJOL, JUNYENT, LAMOLLA, LE CORBUSIER, LETAMENDI, LLULL, MAN RAY, MARÇAL, MARINEL·LO, MASÓ, MASSANET, MASSON, MESTRE DE CABESTANY, MESTRES, MESTRES QUADRENY, MIR, MIRALDA, MIRALLES, E, MIRALLES, F, MIRÓ, MONTOLIU, MONTURIOL, NOGUERA, NOGUERAS i OLLER, PABLO, PEREJAUME, PERUCHO, PICABIA, PICASSO, PLA JANINI, PONÇ, PORTABELLA, PRUNÉS, PUJOLS, RECHA, RIBA, RIBÉ, RIERA, ROMERO, ROSSELL, RUBIÓ I TUDURÍ, SABATÉS, SALVAT-PAPASSEIT, SANTOS, SANTOS TORROELLA, SARRÓ, SAYRACH, SERRA, SIBIUDA, SISA, SUCRE, TÀPIES, TORRES-GARCÍA, VALLDOSERA, VARO, VERDAGUER, VILANOVA, VILATOBÀ, VILLÈLIA, VIURA, XIFRA, XIRÓ, ZANNÉ, ZUSH/EVRU.
The exhibition is divided into 13 thematic areas, each headed by a letter from the Catalan word "Il·luminacions": from the Catalonia of symbols to social utopias; from poetic, ludic machine art to the imaginary life of objects; from architecture as one man's dream to the city as a collective dream; from the landscape as a source of creative visions to contemporary mysticism, and from premonitions to artistic and scientific incursions to the conquest of plurality of gender.
The exhibition, in a space designed by the architect Lluís Pau, includes 800 works of art and science. Some sections are completed by an installation by a contemporary artist whose work is related to the theme and thought in question.
From 02.18.09 to 05.17.09
"From time to time, Catalan good sense closes its eyes and lets things be"
Nicolau M. Rubió i Tudurí
(Prologue to Viatges d'Alí Bei, 1932)
This exhibition traces a map of thought and creation in Catalonia, from the times of Ramon Llull up until the present day, on the basis of visionary artists and creators.
Catalonia has been an advanced country due to the intuition and vision of its individualities, open to the trends of European thought and new revolutionary ideologies. This exhibition takes a closer look at the work of these figures in the world of the arts and literature, science and thought, who have created new perspectives and broken with the past.
It is an exhibition about the visionaries and the impassioned whose legacy has opened the doors of modernity in Catalonia for eight centuries:
ABAD, ALOMAR, BARBA, BARRADAS, BATAILLE, BEN, BEY, BERENGUER, BEUYS, BOFILL, BONASTRUC SA PORTA, BROSSA, BUIGAS, CASAS ABARCA, CASELLAS, CATALÀ I PIC, CERDÀ, CHOMÓN, CLAPÉS, CLAVÉ, CIRLOT, COLOM, COLOMER, COMAS I SOLÀ, CRAVAN, CRESQUES, CRISTÒFOL, CUIXART, DALÍ, DEULOFEU, DUCHAMP, EINSTEIN, EULÀLIA, FAGEDA, FERRANT, FERRER I GUÀRDIA, FOIX, FONTCUBERTA, FORTUNY Y MADRAZO, FRANCÉS, GATCPAC, GAUDÍ, GONZÁLEZ, GUAL, GUIMERÀ, JUJOL, JUNYENT, LAMOLLA, LE CORBUSIER, LETAMENDI, LLULL, MAN RAY, MARÇAL, MARINEL·LO, MASÓ, MASSANET, MASSON, MESTRE DE CABESTANY, MESTRES, MESTRES QUADRENY, MIR, MIRALDA, MIRALLES, E, MIRALLES, F, MIRÓ, MONTOLIU, MONTURIOL, NOGUERA, NOGUERAS i OLLER, PABLO, PEREJAUME, PERUCHO, PICABIA, PICASSO, PLA JANINI, PONÇ, PORTABELLA, PRUNÉS, PUJOLS, RECHA, RIBA, RIBÉ, RIERA, ROMERO, ROSSELL, RUBIÓ I TUDURÍ, SABATÉS, SALVAT-PAPASSEIT, SANTOS, SANTOS TORROELLA, SARRÓ, SAYRACH, SERRA, SIBIUDA, SISA, SUCRE, TÀPIES, TORRES-GARCÍA, VALLDOSERA, VARO, VERDAGUER, VILANOVA, VILATOBÀ, VILLÈLIA, VIURA, XIFRA, XIRÓ, ZANNÉ, ZUSH/EVRU.
The exhibition is divided into 13 thematic areas, each headed by a letter from the Catalan word "Il·luminacions": from the Catalonia of symbols to social utopias; from poetic, ludic machine art to the imaginary life of objects; from architecture as one man's dream to the city as a collective dream; from the landscape as a source of creative visions to contemporary mysticism, and from premonitions to artistic and scientific incursions to the conquest of plurality of gender.
The exhibition, in a space designed by the architect Lluís Pau, includes 800 works of art and science. Some sections are completed by an installation by a contemporary artist whose work is related to the theme and thought in question.