{"id":18540,"date":"2020-02-06T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T12:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/?p=18540"},"modified":"2020-03-09T12:21:55","modified_gmt":"2020-03-09T12:21:55","slug":"love-and-desire-at-the-museu-nacional-dart-de-catalunya-the-guilt-free-body-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.museunacional.cat\/en\/love-and-desire-at-the-museu-nacional-dart-de-catalunya-the-guilt-free-body-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Love and desire at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya: the guilt-free body project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Pupils and teachers of the Plastic Arts, Image and Design <\/strong>Batxillerat<\/strong><\/em> course at the schools of the Garb\u00ed Pere Verg\u00e9s Schools Foundation <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pupils of the Plastic Arts, Image and Design Batxillerat course at the schools, working on the Mood board. \u00a9 Escola Garb\u00ed Pere Verg\u00e9s <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The project The Guilt-free Body<\/a><\/em> (El cos sense culpa<\/em>) enabled us to work with the Museu Nacional d\u2019Art de Catalunya during the 2018-19 academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this article we shall\nexplain what motivated us, the working process we followed, and the final shape\nit took.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love and desire as a subject for reflection and creation<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Every year, on the Arts Batxillerat<\/em> course we look at our world and we ask ourselves questions that concern us. They are questions about human nature, society, ideas, experiences, conflicts<\/strong>, etc. They are not strictly artistic problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The challenge is to try to answer them through art or to express our opinion through art. Through the creative process we become aware of what we are thinking and feeling about the questions we ask<\/strong>. And we do so accepting that it always occurs openly, without a closed conclusion. The problems lead us to ideas that at the same time become questions. We find this work very beneficial; it helps us develop our critical and reflexive spirit, and to reinforce our aesthetic sensibility and creativity, just some of the project\u2019s many aspects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Love and desire are two aspects of the same human impulse, and it was the subject chosen by the pupils to be considered from different points of view. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order to structure our reflection\nbetter, we turned to the history of philosophy and we realized the many\ndifferent ideas it has generated. In doing so, we were asking ourselves whether\nor not we were sharing in those ideas, and we\nwere surprised to see how up-to-date some of them were. For example, those of\nUtilitarianism, those of Foucault, or those of Plato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To give shape to the complexity of the subject, we asked ourselves a series of questions with which we were trying to focus on more concrete aspects:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. <\/strong>Our body (biology) makes us feel emotions and feelings that we find hard to manage rationally: sexual desire (Eros).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2.<\/strong> Do sexual desire and love have laws of behaviour similar to the principles of gravitational physics or electric or magnetic fields?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3.<\/strong> Carnal love (desire) and spiritual love are neither good nor bad in themselves. They are complementary and good if they help us to grow intellectually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4.<\/strong> The distance between our expectations of love and desire (ideal) and what we experience in reality is a major source of frustration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5.<\/strong> A balanced life is possible satisfying sexual desire in its natural proportion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6. <\/strong>Can we become free by being able to subjugate our sexual desire? Does a free spirit find its metaphor in the naked body that has nothing to hide?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. <\/strong>Do we feel guilty for experimenting with our sexual desires?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8.<\/strong> Does it make sense to decide \u201cobjectively-rationally\u201d to love or desire a person?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9.<\/strong> Are we aware of how the authorized narratives about our identity-sexuality created by the powers-that-be affect us?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. <\/strong>\u201cCan we\u201d free the body by satisfying all our sexual desires, voluntarily hurting the person we love\/desire?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mood boards. \u00a9 Escola Garb\u00ed Pere Verg\u00e9s <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each of these questions led\nus towards a creative process that was reflective at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Appropriation, a way of getting close to the museum<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

When thinking about how we\nwanted the creative process to take place, the role of the Museu Nacional d\u2019Art\nde Catalunya was crucial. It offered us a large collection of very high-quality\nimages from different periods, with which to establish a dialogue, and we asked\nthem the same questions that we were asking ourselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For us, adolescents and young people, it was a very different way\nof getting close to the museum<\/strong>. We went from being passive\nrecipients to active and critical spectators. And we found this very pleasing. We\n\u201csaw\u201d the museum through very different eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We chose a volume of works\nthat we felt were most suited to the problems we were focusing on and we\nestablished a dialogue with them. We\nappropriated them<\/strong>. By investigating them, we transformed them, we associated\nthem with other contemporary authors and works and this method of working led\nus towards our own reflections-creations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the ways in which the project took shape was a guided tour to the rooms of the museum, where the pupils associated the work in the Museu Nacional that they had chosen as a point of reference with their own creation. \u00a9 Escola Garb\u00ed Pere Verg\u00e9s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The process of creating and making the works was very open. Every project is shaped specifically by the choice of the artistic vehicle that the pupils think is most appropriate. Mood boards<\/a> are the first step; they help us to be aware of our point of view on the subject and to begin exploring its visual possibilities. \u00a9 Escola Garb\u00ed Pere Verg\u00e9s<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making the creative process visible<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Finally, it only remained to\n\u201cgive shape\u201d to the work done. This first project was materialized on two\nsupports. On the one hand, we gathered together and structured the whole process\non a website: The\nGuilt-free Body<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The process of creating and making the works was very open. Every project is shaped specifically by the choice of the artistic vehicle that the pupils think is most appropriate. \u00a9 Escola Garb\u00ed Pere Verg\u00e9s <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the other, we\ncreated a very special visit for our educational community (parents and pupils) through the museum\u2019s\nModern Art rooms. We exhibited our experiences in front of the original works and\nwith photographic reproductions of our creations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this way we turned the visit to the museum into a\nsignificant experience<\/strong>. Now we ask ourselves, could\nwhat we have done encourage other initiatives to bring the museum and adolescents\nand young people closer together?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Final Creations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This ia a compilation of some of the pieces created by pupils of the Plastic Arts, Image and Design Batxillerat<\/em>. All creations are available on the website of the project The guilty-free body<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Alejandro<\/a>
Alejandro Carrasco and Laia L\u00f3pez<\/a> are the creators of the work 4 portes<\/em> that reflects on the idea: \u201cIs it possible to decide objectively-rationally to love or desire a person?\u201d \u00a9 Escola Garb\u00ed Pere Verg\u00e9s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"J\u00falia<\/a>
J\u00falia Ortiz<\/a> is the creator of the work L\u2019amor propi<\/em>. Oil on canvas. \u00a9 Escola Garb\u00ed Pere Verg\u00e9s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"J\u00falia<\/a>
J\u00falia Mill\u00e0, Laura Albajar and Marta Ferrusola<\/a> are the creators of this work that reflects on the idea: \u201cDo we feel guilty for experimenting with our sexual desires?\u201d \u00a9 Escola Garb\u00ed Pere Verg\u00e9s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Carla<\/a>
Carla Castillejo and Anna Ramos<\/a> are the creators of this work that reflects on the idea: \u201cCarnal love (desire) and spiritual love are neither good nor bad in themselves. They are complementary and good if they help us to grow intellectually.\u201d \u00a9 Escola Garb\u00ed Pere Verg\u00e9s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Alberto<\/a>
Alberto Rancati is the creator of the work \u00c8xtasi XXI<\/em> \u00a9 Escola Garb\u00ed Pere Verg\u00e9s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Anna<\/a>
Anna Llobet and Mireia Mar\u00edn<\/a> are the creators of this work that reflects on the idea: \u201cAre we aware of how the authorized narratives about our identity-sexuality created by the powers-that-be affect us?\u201d \u00a9 Escola Garb\u00ed Pere Verg\u00e9s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"Adri\u00e1n<\/a>
Adri\u00e1n S\u00e1nchez, Esther Martret and Olga Rodr\u00edguez<\/a> are the creators of this work that reflects on the idea: \u201cDo sexual desire and love have laws of behaviour similar to the principles of gravitational physics or electric or magnetic fields?\u201d \u00a9 Escola Garb\u00ed Pere Verg\u00e9s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Related links<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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