Other activities :: Exhibitions
[Cartography]: a visual testimony of the Lleida countryside throughout history (13th-19th centuries)
Exhibition carried out by the Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs (IEI), promoted and coordinated by its Service of Archive and Legacies (Abigail Sagarra and Sílvia Farrús) and with Jesús Burgueño (University of Lleida) as comissary. First exhibited in the headquarters of the IEI in Lleida (February 20th - April 15th 2009), later the exhibition will travel to other towns like Balaguer or Cervera (2009).
To celebrate the exhibition, the IEI published a catalogue [Carto]grafia. Testimoni visual de les terres de Lleida a través del temps (segles XIII-XIX), which includes twentieth reproductions of engravings as well as a DVD named “From the parchment to the Google Earth”.
Together with an extensive selection of the engravings collection of the IEI Archive (with works of Beaulieu, Laborde, Suchet, Parcerisa...) this exhibition also has showed some great handwritten pieces, coming from other archives, as now: the parchment of the river Corb (1580) preserved in Vallbona de les Monges, the project of canal of irrigation and navigation from the Urgell plane to Tarragona, of Sinibald de Mas (1786), the map of Ribalera (Pyrenees) of F. Renart (1788), the topographical map of Lleida carried out by french cartographers in 1825, maybe the first one in Spain with contour curves, the cadastral map of Albesa, a work of P. Moreno Ramírez (1857), or the unedited draft of the provincial map of Lleida of F. Coello (ca 1860).
Maps in the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)
A travelling exhibition mounted by the Map Library of the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia with Carme Montaner, Francesc Nadal, and Luis Urteaga as commissaries. The exhibition was organised by the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia and the Directorate General for Democratic Memory (Direcció General de la Memòria Democràtica), with the collaboration of the Secretariat for Universities and Research. The exhibition was first presented at the head office of the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia, January 24th-March 30th 2007.
To celebrate the exhibition, the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia published a catalogue, in a bilingual Catalan-Castilian edition, with texts by the commissaries and by the geographer Felipe Fernández from the University of Oviedo: Els mapes en la guerra civil espanyola, 1936-1939 (Barcelona, 2007). The catalogue has been reedited with different pagination, by the Government of Aragon (Zaragoza, 2007).
After showing in Barcelona, the exhibition was presented in the following cities:
- Sevilla, May 31st - July 8th 2007.
- Zaragoza, September 6th – 28th 2007.
- Huesca, October 5th – 21st 2007.
- Teruel, October 26th – November 16th 2007.
- Granada, November 29th – December 21st 2007.
- Málaga, January 13th – Februray 3rd 2008.
- Jaén, Februray 11th – March 6th 2008.
Historical evolution of cartography in the Pyrenees
A travelling exhibition organised by the Pyrenean Work Community (Comunitat de Treball dels Pirineus) and the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia (2004-2006).
Exhibition commissary: Carme Montaner
This exhibition was presented in Seu d’Urgell (2004), Jaca (2004), Bilbao (2004), Bordeaux (2005), Toulouse (2005), Montpellier (2005), Andorra la Vella (2005), Barcelona (2005), Brussels (2005), Vall de Boí (2005), Ribes de Fresser (2006), Folgueroles (2006)..
Historical material from the Meteorological Service of Catalonia
An exhibition organised by the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia and the Meteorological Service of Catalonia. Presented in Barcelona in 2003. Exhibition commissary: Carme Montaner.
Portolan charts from Spanish collections
An exhibition organised by the Cartographic Institute of Catalonia and the Organising Committee of the 10th General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association and the 17th International Cartographic Conference. Presented in Barcelona in 1995. Exhibition coordinator: Carme Montaner.