Display "Francesc d’A. Galí. The invisible teacher"
Francesc d’Assís Galí i Fabra (Barcelona, 1880-1965), author of the paintings of the dome that crowns the National Palace, was one of the most important figures in Catalan art in the first half of the 20th century. Formed with Pompeu Fabra, he renewed Catalan artistic pedagogy during Noucentisme, becoming the teacher of a whole generation of artists since his school of art – where he formed Joan Miró or Llorens Artigas – and the Higher School of Bells of the Commonwealth of Catalonia. Galí also developed a fruitful artistic career as a painter, cartoonist, muralist, poster artist and illustrator. His work crosses all Catalan modernity: modernism, symbolism, Noucentisme and the avant -garde. Despite his merits, Galí chose to play an invisible role: inconsistent as an artist, working in the shadow of his disciples and carefree of his legacy. This exhibition aims to make the one who was hidden visible. Vindicate the footprint of the one who did not want to leave a trace. At the same time, the exhibition explores a chapter of the museum’s origins, in the context of the great extension project that has the centenary of the International Exhibition of 1929. Galí was precisely one of the artists who most intensely participated in the Barcelona International Exhibition of 1929. On behalf of its General Commissioner, Lluís Plandiura, made several promotional posters; Together with Ramon Sarsanedas he designed the windshield, for the Pavilion of the gathered artists, as well as the diorama for the great exhibition El Arte en España. His most notable work, however, was the large mural in the central dome of the National Palace in which he represented 35 allegorical figures of the Fine Arts, Science, Religion and Earth. To paint it, Galí spent more than half a year climbed on a precarious built at thirty meters high. The Civil War struck Galí’s career. As Director of Fine Arts of the Republic, he was responsible for moving the works of the Museum of the Prado to the border, in 1938, and he also forced himself to undertake exile, which spent ten years in London. The exhibition is complemented by the Galí exhibition: Exile and Evasion, which can be visited at the Museum of Exile, Mume, of La Jonquera, between November 30, 2024 and July 3, 2025, and which reconstructs the tragic moment of his departure in London and the relationship with the surrealist painter Ithell Colquhoun, who will transform his life and artistic trajectory. »Location: Sales 63 and 64 Modern Art and Dome Hall For more information You can consult the website of the exhibition” Francesc d’A. Galí. The Invisible Master “Last Update: 22/01/2025
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