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2020 Programme of exhibitions www.museunacional.cat he exhibitions that the Museu Nacional is presenting this year are the result of the lines of Twork indicated in the new Action Plan 2019-2029. The programme as a whole is framed within the museum’s wish to continue broadening its activity to reach as many different types of people as possible, expanding the institution’s public participative dimension. The exhibitions are designed to turn the museum into a critical space, for dialogue and exploration, a connecting thread that provides all visitors with valuable and enjoyable experiences through art and culture. This year also, cooperative work is especially reinforced, besides the museum’s collaboration with other institutions, both public and private, to create projects jointly. On the one hand, one of the key figures in the museum’s collection, Isidre Nonell, an essen- tial artist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, will be reviewed from a new perspective. He will be the subject of an exhibition dealing with the more social aspects of his work, how he managed to find beauty on the edges of society, and in poverty, and it will reveal his connections with artists such as Goya or Picasso. There will also be a new international collaboration, with the Museo del Prado and the Palazzo Barberini in Rome, an unprecedented exhibition that for the first time reconstructs the series of mural paintings from the chapel in the church of San Giacomo degli Spagnoli, which the Baroque artist Carracci did in Rome between 1604 and 1606. This exhibition is an excellent way to project the museum’s collection internationally. Another collaboration, in this case with the J. Llorens Artigas Foundation, will lead the museum to explore the connections between two great ceramicists of the twentieth century: Josep Llo- rens Artigas and Hamada Shöji. This project also signifies the recognition and the vindication of the Catalan ceramicist by the Museu Nacional, where he is still not properly represented. New strategic alliances will be forged too, and, together with the Suñol Foundation, contemporary art will burst in on the museum’s historic collections. This collaboration will mean an alli- ance and a fundamental step forward in the work that the museum is doing to put together the Post-war and Avant-garde Art collection. In 2020 the museum will take a significant step with this project, Intrusive Dialogues, and with the show organized in collaboration with the Víctor Balaguer Library-Museum, in Vilanova, Emerging from the Shadows, which sheds light on a sin- gular, extraordinary collection, that of the former Museo de Arte Contemporáneo of Barcelona. At the same time the museum continues working to offer a renewed, contemporary interpre- tation of its collection, from a present-day perspective, by working artists producing specific projects for the museum. This year the museum is presenting projects by Oriol Vilapuig, Ma- bel Palacín, Vicens Vacca, Jordi Ferreiro, Èlia Llach and Lúa Coderch. 3 Active participation in the city’s programmes, which strengthen the cultural DNA of Barcelona and its role as an international point of reference, is another of the goals of the museum’s exhibitions programme. The Museu Nacional is therefore taking part for yet another year in the ICUB’s En Residència programme, and also in the Big Draw festival, Loop, and the Festival Grec, as well as working with the TNC and the Filmoteca de Catalunya. Publicizing the collection in other cities is also a goal of this programme. Its collaboration with “la Caixa” continues, which this year visits Zaragoza, Palma and Seville. The international exhibition Barcelona: The City of Artistic Miracles is a project that in 2020 can be visited in Shizuoka and Tokyo, its final stage, and which due to its dimension has been split between 2019 and 2020. 4 Programme Exhibitions Nonell, Beauty in Stigma — 14 May – 13 September 2020 7 Carracci. The Herrera Chapel — 22 October 2020 – 24 January 2021 11 The Colours of Fire. Hamada-Artigas — 19 November 2020 – 7 March 2021 13 Collection POST-WAR AND AVANT-GARDE Emerging from the Shadows. The pinnacle of Informalism in the dome of the Coliseum — September 2020 15 Intrusive Dialogues. The Suñol Collection bursts in to the collections of the Museu Nacional — Late 2020 17 ROMANESQUE ART Graffiti — Autumn 2020 19 Artists’ projects. Contemporary gazes ROOMS OF THE COLLECTION Son. Impressions from the Àneu Valleys. An intervention by Oriol Vilapuig in the Romanesque Collection — 11 March – 27 September 2020 21 Homeland. A project by Mabel Palacín — Late 2020 23 OVAL HALL An acoustic project by Vicens Vacca — Late 2020 25 ESPAI EDUCART Jordi Ferreiro. Pneumotòrax — Until 23 February 2020 27 Èlia Llach. Croquis Inconcrets — 19 March – 27 September 2020 27 Lúa Coderch — November 2020 – March 2021 27 En Residència project Anna Dot at the Maria Espinalt Institute 27 Exhibitions outside the museum Blue, the Colour of Modernisme 29 CaixaForum Zaragoza — 18 September 2019 – 19 January 2020 CaixaForum Palma — 18 February – 21 June 2020 Poetics of Emotion 31 CaixaForum Seville — 27 November 2019 – 29 March 2020 Barcelona: The City of Artistic Miracles 33 Shizuoka City Museum of Art — 12 November 2019 – 19 January 2020 Tokyo Station Gallery — 8 February – 5 April 2020 Nonell, Beauty in Stigma ISIDRE NONELL. Couple of Gypsies, 1904. Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya Organized and produced by he Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya conserves a very important Museu Nacional d’Art de number of works by Isidre Nonell (1872-1911), one of the finest Catalunya T artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Nonell is Curator one of the most important figures in the art of his time, as a talented Francesc Quílez, Collections artist, and for the influence he had on his fellow artists. coordinator and head conservator of the Cabinet Isidre Nonell subverted bourgeois tastes, the nice aestheticist view of of Drawings and Prints, and the militant Modernista, and he chose social themes, to the extent of Eduard Vallès, conservator of the Modern Art department, turning marginal figures, beggars, poor people, gypsies and social out- Museu Nacional d’Art de casts into the subjects of his work. Catalunya His work represented a point of inflection in Catalan art, insofar as it Dates announced a new generation of artists and prefigured the emergence 14 May – 13 September 2020 of the modern tradition. On the journey Nonell made with a group of artists to Caldes de Boí, in the summer of 1896, he came into contact with social groups that were highly stigmatized because they suffered from serious illnesses that caused physical deformations. The painter turned this experience into one of the strangest, and at the same time fascinating, artistic episodes in the history of art in Catalonia. Following a criterion of thematic grouping, the exhibition will present some of the most unusual products of his work as a painter and draughtsman, and it will allow us to gain more in-depth knowledge of the sources that fuelled his poetic imaginary, with retrospective gazes 7 ISIDRE NONELL. Cretin in Boí. Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya ISIDRE NONELL. Repose, 1903-1904. Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya towards tradition and towards all the artists in which he saw himself reflected or who developed the same thematic motifs. Among other aspects, the exhibition’s visual dialogue will make it possible to clearly see the existence of a current of influences, corre- spondences, figurative borrowings, that show how Nonell was not only able to interpret and shape them, but also that he was able to collect these visual references and transform them into an original and sin- gular proposal. The references in which he saw himself reflected include artists from the past such as Goya, where we find a substantial part of his worldview, but other artists too, like Ibels, Daumier and Steinlen. His influence was to mark the development of artists as different as Canals, Mir, Pichot, Gosé, Casagemas and Picasso, with many of whom he shared interests and artistic ideas. One of the unusual aspects of this show will be the exhibition of a large selection of photographs taken by Serra, Vilatobà, Fargas and Ballell, which illustrate the themes shared by painters, draughtsmen and photographers, the result of the appearance of situations of enor- mous social inequality due to a prevailing capitalist model of economic 8 BALLELL. Fisherwoman’s hut on Somorrostro beach, 1915. AFB growth. In this historical context, the city of Barcelona, and especially its outskirts, becomes one of the major protagonists of this exhibition’s narrative thread. The show will bring together important loans of works belonging to public and private collections, such as, among others, the Museo Nacional del Prado, Museo Nacional de Arte Reina Sofía, Museo Thyssen, Musée d’Orsay, Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon, Musée du Louvre, Musée Picas- so in Paris, and the Museu Picasso in Barcelona. Furthermore, it will present two lines of research undertaken by the department of Conservation and Restoration, based on Nonell’s work. His famous “fried drawings” will be analysed scientifically for the first time, a legendary theme that to date has not been studied in this degree of detail. The second line of research refers to Nonell’s technique and to ISIDRE NONELL. Cretin in Boí, 1896-1897. Museu the reuse the artist made of the backs of some works. The exhibition Nacional d’Art de Catalunya shows us a versatile, restless artist, open to formal experimentation, and who stands out for his original creativity, far removed from the more conventional solutions and responses. 9 Carracci. The Herrera Chapel ANNIBALE CARRACCI AND FRANCESCO ALBANI.

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