Category Archives: Showcase

Itinerary dedicated to perfume, Mocenigo Palace-Museum

A new section dedicated to fragrances enriches the exhibition on the first floor of the Museum of Palazzo Mocenigo at San Stae. Strongly supported by Mavive SpA, a Venetian company of Vidal’s family – main partner of a real act of patronage designed to reaffirm the deep bond with the…

Itinerary dedicated to perfume, Mocenigo Palace-Museum

Armenity / Hayoutioun, Armenia Pavilion in San Lazzaro, Venice Biennale 2015

In this symbolic year 2015, on the occasion of the one hundredth commemoration of the Armenian Genocide, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia has dedicated its pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia to the artists of the Armenian diaspora. It will…

Armenity / Hayoutioun, Armenia Pavilion in San Lazzaro, Venice Biennale 2015

Lina Selander: Excavation of the Image: Imprint, shadow, spectre, thought, Swedish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Lina Selander’s films and installations can be read as compositions or thought models, where ideas and conditions are weighed and tested. Representing Sweden at the 56th Biennale di Venezia 2015, she has compiled a group of works and documents describing a migration between utopia and collapse, where technological or ideological…

Lina Selander: Excavation of the Image: Imprint, shadow, spectre, thought, Swedish Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Lotty Rosenfeld-Paz Errázuriz: Poetics of dissent, Chilean Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

For the first time, the concept for the Pavilion of Chile at la Biennale di Venezia was selected in a public competition. Poetics of Dissent was announced as the winning proposal by the National Council for Culture and the Arts of Chile (CNCA). Artists and creative practitioners to be known…

Lotty Rosenfeld-Paz Errázuriz: Poetics of dissent, Chilean Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

The celebrated new Australian Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, attracted global attention. Fiona Hall became the first artist to represent Australia in the new building with her exhibition Wrong Way Time. The world is such an amazing place, yet sadly we are living in troubled times…

Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time, Australian Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

Looking ahead. The evolution of the art of making, Venice Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

The Exhibition “Looking ahead. The evolution of the art of making. 9 stories from Veneto: digital – not only digital.” in the Venice Pavilion, returns to its origins, with an exhibition on contemporary Applied Arts. The Venice Pavilion at the 2015 Biennale, based on technology and knowledge deriving from experience,…

Looking ahead. The evolution of the art of making, Venice Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015

1957-1975, Andalusian Contemporary Art Center

Two dates, two numbers: a palindromic pair. Can the art of this period also be read from left to right and right to left? Changing the order of factors would undoubtedly alter the product, even though this exhibition, beyond marking the interval between those two years, aspires to highlight its…

1957-1975, Andalusian Contemporary Art Center

Modern Art Collection Part 4, Art and Civil War, National Art Museum of Catalonia

General Franco’s coup against the legitimate government of the Spanish Republic on 18 July 1936 marked the start of a civil war that ended in 1939 with the victory of the Fascists and the defeat, persecution and exile of the Republican forces. From the first moment, realising the need to…

Modern Art Collection Part 4, Art and Civil War, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Modernist Interior Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Modernisme is, within the Catalan artistic context, the movement that in France is known as Art Nouveau, in Germany as Jugendstil and in Austria as Sezession. Despite the popularity of the painting, architecture and sculpture, in Catalonia Modernisme is especially notable for the decorative arts, in overcoming the distinction between…

Modernist Interior Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Numismatic Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

The Numismatic Cabinet of Catalonia, created in 1932, has a collection of over 134,000 copies. The fund is the result of a long process of acquisition, donation, legacy or deposit, which began in the first half of the nineteenth century and still continues. The coin collection consists of nearly 100,000…

Numismatic Collection, National Art Museum of Catalonia

Public Waters Mine of Terrassa, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

“Public Waters Mine of Terrassa, The heart of the industrial city” is an exhibition explaining how water was brought to the town of Terrassa, from the very earliest days thanks to the initiative of a number of industrialists, to provide power for the textile industry, with a tunnel being built…

Public Waters Mine of Terrassa, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

Homo Faber, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

“Homo sapiens Faber” is a permanent exhibition occupying a 350 m2 section of the basement of the mNACTEC, showing the evolution of science and technology from the first great technological revolution of humanity, the Stone Age revolution, up to early industrialisation, focusing in particular on the Catalan context. Mankind has,…

Homo Faber, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

Viva Montesa, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

The exhibition features the Pere Permanyer Collection, held at the mNACTEC, a true Montesa Museum, which stands out for having models of every variant produced by the make. “Viva Montesa” offers a journey through the history of the Catalan brand courtesy of 67 motorcycles, three bicycles and two engines. These…

Viva Montesa, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

Transport, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

The collection of automobiles, trucks, engines, aircraft, motorbikes and bicycles on display at the mNACTEC plots a course through the history of transport from the earliest days up to the present time. The key exhibits on show include among others the Locomobile steam-powered automobile, dating from 1899, the 1957 SEAT…

Transport, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

Everything is chemistry, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

Exhibition showing the presence of chemistry in the world around us. From our own bodies to the different applications of chemistry in everyday life: materials, daily activities, nutrition and health. Without the contributions of chemistry it would have been almost impossible to resolve the multiple needs generated by demographic growth…

Everything is chemistry, National Museum of Science and Technology of Catalonia

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