Bringing society the modernist heritage
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.
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.