Touch to touch. Drawings from blindness
How can you design for those who cannot see? How can graphic design, based on a visual composition, reach blind people? How is the point of intercommunication between this group and sighted people found? The exhibition “TOCA TOCAR. Drawings from blindness” that is being presented is born from these reflections and the desire to involve […]
70’s – 90’s. From a certain abstraction to conceptual art. Art collection of the newspaper AVUI
On April 23, 1976, the first issue of the newspaper Avui was published, the first Catalan-language newspaper after the Franco dictatorship. The newspaper was born under the pressure of a large part of Catalan society and received broad support, including that of artists. Practically all the artists of the time, in fact, responded to a […]
From Paris to Girona. Mela Muter and Polish Artists in Catalonia
Mela Muter (1876-1967), originally Polish and established in Paris since 1901, became one of the most recognized painters during the first half of the 20th century. Also in Catalonia, especially in Barcelona, where she exhibited in 1911 and 1912, and in Girona, where she stayed in the spring of 1914. The city of Girona, which […]
Juan Batlle Planas: the surrealist cabinet
Juan Batlle Planas (Torroella de Montgrí, 1911-Buenos Aires, 1966) was a key figure of the Argentine avant-garde of the 1930s, but unknown in our country. He never became an Argentine national and, although he lived in Buenos Aires from the age of two, he never returned, not even on a trip, to Spain. Juan Batlle […]
Guinovart: vital references
Josep Guinovart (1927-2007), one of the greatest exponents of the Catalan and Spanish avant-garde art of the second half of the 20th century, embodies like few others the figure of the artist in constant mutation. Guinovart comes from the profession of painter. His father was a gilder and his uncles were wall painters. He grew […]
Latest acquisitions in the md’A
The Girona Art Museum presents the latest acquisitions for its permanent collection. The landscape Girona. Tower and apse of Sant Pere Galligants , an oil on canvas measuring 70 x 89 cm, painted in 1915 by the artist Celso Lagar (Ciudad Rodrigo 1891- Seville 1966) during a stay in the city. The late Gothic panel […]
Olga Sacharoff: painting, poetry, emancipation
“Olga Sacharoff: painting, poetry and emancipation” is the central exhibition of the Sacharoff Year, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the death of the avant-garde Russian painter Olga Sacharoff, and aims to position her as an active artist in the so-called School of Paris of the first half of the 20th century; as well as […]
Divorces with tradition, by Domènec Fita
The Girona Art Museum inaugurates on Friday, October 27 at 6 p.m. the first of six exhibitions and events that will take place in Girona as part of the commemoration of the 90th birthday of the artist Domènec Fita. The Fita Foundation, with the support of the Girona Provincial Council, Girona City Council, the Bishopric […]
Democratic Assembly of Artists of Girona (ADAG)
‘ADAG constituted one of the main organizational and anti-Franco political action experiences of the artistic world in Catalonia and in the Spanish State during the process of repealing the dictatorship. Formed by a plural group of activists and visual producers, it developed a wide range of actions, of very diverse typologies but with the common […]
Prudenci Bertrana, painter
Before he was a writer, Prudenci Bertrana (Tordera, 1867 – Barcelona, 1941) was a painter. He made the art of drawing and painting his first profession, and it was also his first creative stimulus. On the occasion of the celebration of Bertrana Year, the md’A dedicates a large exhibition to the artistic side of one […]