ExhibitionMarch 11, 2022
Gaudí: Major exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay
The Musée d'Orsay will host the first major exhibition devoted to Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) to be held in Paris in fifty years. It will show the extraordinary creativity of this singular artist, a bearer of the upheavals at work in Catalonia at the end of the 19th century, and which is expressed as much in the details of his furniture as in the scale of an extraordinary architectural project: the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
In an immersive museography, it will show the spectacular creations of this master of Art Nouveau, notably presenting sets of furniture never before exhibited in France. It will offer a new vision of the artist as a unique figure, a non-isolated genius who worked in Catalonia in the midst of social, political and urban upheaval. The exhibition will show the creative process of the architect in the midst of an exceptional local artistic profusion linked to the "Modernism" or Art Nouveau movement in Spain, carried by distinguished patrons, anxious to distinguish Catalonia, a land of identity with a Mediterranean nature. Gaudi's workshop, his numerous collaborators, his sophisticated working techniques will be the guiding line of the exhibition to make the public understand the extraordinary capacity of invention of the architect who defied all the creation of the moment.
Through the few surviving drawings of the artist, models and numerous works of furniture, the exhibition will reconstruct what characterizes Gaudí: space and color. It will lead the visitor through his creations of palaces, urban hotels, parks, churches, and the extraordinary project of the Sagrada Familia. Films, photographs, and documents from the period will testify to the vitality of the architect's career as a plastic artist, but also to the artistic upheaval that he brought to Barcelona forever.
The exhibition is organized by the Orsay and Orangerie museums, Paris, with the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona (MNAC), with the general curatorship by Juan Jose Lahuerta, professor at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and the curators Isabelle Morin Loutrel, chief curator at Musée d’Orsay and Elise Dubreuil, curator in charge of the decorative arts collections at the Musée d’Orsay.
The exhibition will be on view from April 12 to July 17, 2022. For more information visit: https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/expositions/gaudi-498
In an immersive museography, it will show the spectacular creations of this master of Art Nouveau, notably presenting sets of furniture never before exhibited in France. It will offer a new vision of the artist as a unique figure, a non-isolated genius who worked in Catalonia in the midst of social, political and urban upheaval. The exhibition will show the creative process of the architect in the midst of an exceptional local artistic profusion linked to the "Modernism" or Art Nouveau movement in Spain, carried by distinguished patrons, anxious to distinguish Catalonia, a land of identity with a Mediterranean nature. Gaudi's workshop, his numerous collaborators, his sophisticated working techniques will be the guiding line of the exhibition to make the public understand the extraordinary capacity of invention of the architect who defied all the creation of the moment.
Through the few surviving drawings of the artist, models and numerous works of furniture, the exhibition will reconstruct what characterizes Gaudí: space and color. It will lead the visitor through his creations of palaces, urban hotels, parks, churches, and the extraordinary project of the Sagrada Familia. Films, photographs, and documents from the period will testify to the vitality of the architect's career as a plastic artist, but also to the artistic upheaval that he brought to Barcelona forever.
The exhibition is organized by the Orsay and Orangerie museums, Paris, with the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in Barcelona (MNAC), with the general curatorship by Juan Jose Lahuerta, professor at the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Arquitectura de Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, and the curators Isabelle Morin Loutrel, chief curator at Musée d’Orsay and Elise Dubreuil, curator in charge of the decorative arts collections at the Musée d’Orsay.
The exhibition will be on view from April 12 to July 17, 2022. For more information visit: https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/expositions/gaudi-498
