{"id":11503,"date":"2017-11-16T12:47:23","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T18:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?p=11503"},"modified":"2020-03-03T10:01:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T10:01:15","slug":"exhibitions-programme-2018-at-the-museu-nacional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/exhibitions-programme-2018-at-the-museu-nacional\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibitions programme at the Museu Nacional"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the Museu Nacional d\u2019Art de Catalunya\u2019s programme of exhibitions<\/a> for 2018, centred around two major exhibitions, international in scope and dimension. These involve collaboration with international museums and the display of themes and artists directly related to the museum\u2019s permanent collection, building bridges and establishing new interpretations with the major international artistic movements.<\/p>\n

Exhibitions<\/h3>\n

William Morris and Company: the Arts and Crafts Movement in Great Britain<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The first major exhibition that the museum will present in 2018 is the one dedicated to William Morris and the Arts and Crafts<\/a> movement, organized jointly with the Fundaci\u00f3 Juan March<\/a>. It explores this major European artistic movement that was related to Modernisme<\/em><\/a>, one of the mainstays of the museum\u2019s collections.<\/p>\n

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William Morris, photographied by Emery Walker, c. 1887. Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid<\/p><\/div>\n

William Morris<\/a> is one of the most important figures in British arts, letters and culture of the late 19th century. The Arts and Crafts movement emerged in about 1880 and became the dominant trend in British craftsmanship and design until approximately 1914, although its influence survived in some areas until well into the 20th century.<\/p>\n

The exhibition presents 300 important pieces of furniture, textiles, wallpaper, jewellery, glassware, ceramics, metalwork, bookbinding, painting, drawing, engraving and photography.<\/p>\n

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William Morris, Honeysuckle embroidery<\/em>,1880. Source: William Morris Gallery, London<\/p><\/div>\n

This is the first time that an exhibition on this subject is to be displayed in our country. In order to do so, the collaboration of the Victoria & Albert Museum and the British Museum has been essential. It will be open at the Museu Nacional from 22 February until 2o May 2018.<\/p>\n

Gala Salvador Dal\u00ed: A Room of her Own in P\u00fabol<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Together with The Dal\u00ed Foundation<\/a>, the museum is preparing the first major exhibition dedicated to Gala, a figure essential for understanding the Surrealist universe.
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Eric Schaal, Gala working on Dream of Venus<\/em>. 1939. Eric Schaal \u00a9 Fundaci\u00f3 Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed, Figueres, 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

Despite her notable popularity, Gala Dal\u00ed continues to be an enigma. The exhibition, curated by Estrella de Diego, will discover a Gala who camouflages herself as a muse while forging her own path as an artist: she writes, designs clothes, imagines and creates her own image, besides making herself essential in the artistic development of Dal\u00ed.<\/p>\n

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Salvador Dal\u00ed, Portrait of Gala with Two Lamb Chops Balanced on Her Shoulder<\/em>. c. 1934 \u00a9 Fundaci\u00f3 Gala-Salvador Dal\u00ed, Figueres, 2017<\/p><\/div>\n

The exhibition Gala Salvador Dal\u00ed: A Room of her Own in P\u00fabol<\/em> will present an exceptional series of works by Dal\u00ed, as well as different objects that belonged to Gala and a selection of works by other artists. The works come largely from the Gala Salvador Dal\u00ed Foundation, as well as from the Dal\u00ed Museum in Saint Petersburg (Florida), the Haggerty Museum of Art (Milwaukee), the Pompidou Center (Paris) and other museums and private collections. <\/span>It can be visited at the Museum from 5 July to 14 October 2018.<\/p>\n

Art at the Gates of 1968: Pop and New Artistic Practices in Catalonia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

One of the novelties for 2018 will be the start of a series of exhibitions focusing on the 1950s, 60s and 70s. The first of them, Art at the Gates of 1968: Pop and New Artistic Practices in Catalonia, will be a small-format exhibition, the result of the investigations that the museum has carried out in recent years to approach Catalan art in this period in detail.<\/p>\n

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Norman Narotzky, I Am a Man<\/em>, 1968-1969<\/p><\/div>\n

Pacifism, sexual revolution, criticism of capitalism, unlimited exploration of individual creativity, these are some of the fundamental challenges expressed by artists in these years, added to which is the resistance to the specific context of Francoism. The show will portray a moment of tension and enthusiasm that opened the doors to a new sensibility.<\/p>\n

Curated by \u00c0lex Mitrani and Inma Prieto, it is planned for November-December 2018.<\/p>\n

Changes in the collection<\/h3>\n

The approach we make of the collection is no longer permanent, but changing. We will add layers of interpretation and will facilitate the generation of different stories so that the visitor chooses and creates its own interpretation.<\/span><\/p>\n

New Modern Art rooms: the long post-war period and the possibility of the Avant-garde<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In 2018 two new galleries dedicated to post-Spanish-civil-war and avant-garde art will be opened, which prolong the historical period covered by the museum to the 1960s.<\/p>\n

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R\u00e0fols Casamada, The Balcony<\/em><\/a>, 1947<\/p><\/div>\n

While we await the future enlargement of the museum, these rooms will be a prefiguration of the display of art from the years following the Civil War and they will function as a flexible, experimental exhibition within the permanent collection.<\/p>\n

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Otho Lloyd, Pla\u00e7a de Sant Agust\u00ed Vell<\/em><\/a>, 1946<\/p><\/div>\n

Incorporations to the permanent exhibition and new interpretations of the works of Modern Art<\/strong><\/p>\n

The museum proposes to intensify the task of mediation and to incorporate new layers of interpretation in the Modern Art collection, to make it more accessible to different kinds of visitors.<\/p>\n

Works by Avant-garde artists will gradually be included, coming from other institutions and private collections. One of the novelties will be the collaboration with the Museu Picasso in Barcelona<\/a> to strengthen the presence of this artist in the collection.<\/p>\n

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Museum’s Modern Art galleries. Photo: Marta M\u00e9rida<\/p><\/div>\n

Artist\u2019s projects<\/h3>\n

Pedro G. Romero. Room<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In the rooms dedicated to the Civil War, in the Modern Art collection, the works by Archivo F. X. will be exhibited based on the Psychotechnical Checas<\/em> by Alphonse Laurencic installed in the churches in Carrers Vallmajor and Saragossa in Barcelona and in the convent of Santa \u00darsula in Valencia from 1937 to 1939.<\/p>\n

This installation is part of the work done by the artist Pedro G. Romero<\/a> and it will include documentary material, photographs, films and bibliography to explain its function and meaning.<\/p>\n

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Psychotechnical Checa<\/em> by Alphonse Laurencic<\/p><\/div>\n

Exhibitions outside the museum<\/h3>\n

The show dedicated to Ramon Pichot, Ramon Pichot: From Els Quatre Gats to the Maison Rose<\/a>, will travel to CaixaForum in Lleida and CaixaForum in Girona during 2018 thanks to the collaboration in this project of Obra Social \u201cla Caixa\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Ramon Pichot, Germaine<\/em>, c. 1900. Artur Ramon Collection<\/p><\/div>\n

In the second half of 2018 the museum will take a small anthological exhibition of works by Juli Gonz\u00e1lez<\/strong> <\/a>to Brazil. The show will include all his creative periods and registers (metalwork, painting, drawing and sculpture), in order to once again assess this leading figure of the international Avant-garde, the father of modern iron sculpture.<\/p>\n

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Juli Gonz\u00e1lez, Self-portrait<\/em><\/a>, c. 1920-1926<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2026 and you can still visit<\/h3>\n

The exhibitions Ramon Pichot: From Els Quatre Gats to the Maison Rose<\/a>, until 21 January 2018, and also Francesc Torres: the Entropic Box [The Museum of Lost Objects],<\/a> until 14 January.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss them!<\/p>\n

Related links<\/h3>\n

Press release <\/a>(pdf in Spanish – 7Mb)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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