Bringing society the modernist heritage

The exhibition “Modernism. Art, workshops, industries” has been awarded with an Antoni Caparrós Prize to the best project of transfer of knowledge, technology and innovation.
The exhibition “Modernism. Art, workshops, industries” has been awarded with an Antoni Caparrós Prize to the best project of transfer of knowledge, technology and innovation.
Culture
(18/01/2017)

Modernism was, apart from an aesthetic movement, an ideological trend with a will of change. The promotion of construction and its subsidiary industries left as legacy one of the most important architectural and cultural heritages in Catalonia, with well-known buildings and a huge amount of everyday life objects. The exhibition “Modernism. Art, workshops, industries” commissioned by Professor Mireia Freixa, which was exposed in the exhibition room of La Pedrera, had more than 93.500 visitors during the six months in which it was opened to the public, and was an exceptional platform to share this heritage with people.

The exhibition “Modernism. Art, workshops, industries” has been awarded with an Antoni Caparrós Prize to the best project of transfer of knowledge, technology and innovation.
The exhibition “Modernism. Art, workshops, industries” has been awarded with an Antoni Caparrós Prize to the best project of transfer of knowledge, technology and innovation.
Culture
18/01/2017

Modernism was, apart from an aesthetic movement, an ideological trend with a will of change. The promotion of construction and its subsidiary industries left as legacy one of the most important architectural and cultural heritages in Catalonia, with well-known buildings and a huge amount of everyday life objects. The exhibition “Modernism. Art, workshops, industries” commissioned by Professor Mireia Freixa, which was exposed in the exhibition room of La Pedrera, had more than 93.500 visitors during the six months in which it was opened to the public, and was an exceptional platform to share this heritage with people.

The exhibition showed a vision of this movement, focused on the industrial arts, highlighting the work of many craftsmanship workshops and local manufactures. All of them contributed to the recovery of old procedures at the same time they found out new materials and techniques to get better and more competitive products.

The Catalunya - la Pedrera Foundation offered the chance of presenting this exhibition that reflects one of the lines of the Research Group of History of Art and Contemporary Design (GRACMON) of the University of Barcelona, which was possible thanks to the collaboration of loaners, particulars and big and small museums. When closing the exhibition, Mireia Freixa summarized that “It has had a successful attendance, who understood how artistic movements can be shared with everyday life objects, in many occasions they are distinguished pieces in the history of design. The local attendants valued objects that are very near, while other attendants could see more than the tourist stereotypes”.
 
The exhibition, which gathered the work of a whole series of research and doctoral thesis, has been awarded with Antoni Caparrós Prize for the best project of transfer of knowledge, technology and innovation. The study of applied and decorative arts of Modernism as a modern design base is one of the lines of research of GRACMON, adjunct to the Department of History of art and Visual Arts and Design of the University of Barcelona.
 
GRACMON is making a relevant task of knowledge transfer. An example of that is Datathon, organized in November, a meeting part of the Modernism project: open access, by RecerCaixa, which gathered students of master and postgraduate degrees (master in Advanced Studies in History of Art, master in Cultural Heritage and Museology, master in Digital Content Management and postgraduate degree in Introduction to Data Science and Big Data) with the aim of creating a set of data on Modernism for professional transdisciplinary teams that work on detecting patterns and trends on this movement. The results of the activity will be published in the shape of models, figures, maps and other visualization systems and data analysis.