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The exhibition “Between time and spaces. Magazine of Catalonia 1924 – 2024 ”is a collaboration between the Library of Catalonia and the Revista de Catalunya Foundation, on the occasion of the centenary of the publication. The Magazine of Cataloniaborn July 1924, is the magazine dean published in Catalan. He has told the history, literature, and politics of a century, despite interruptions. Committed to the country, it has been a relevant communication tool in the Catalan language and has survived the historical events that our country has suffered.

Through covers, photographs, correspondence, journalistic chronicles and books of the Editorial Annex label, the exhibition makes a visual review of this journey. “A magazine of ideas”, “In Times of War”, “The Exiled Magazine”, “A Tribune from Modernity”, “Editions of the Revista de Catalunya” and “Yesterday and today” are the seven main areas in which the exhibition space is divided. In this tour, the exhibition also records the people who promoted and directed it in each of the stages and those who have collaborated to make it possible from the beginning to the present.

The centenary of its founding and perseverance to the present day are the mirror of the political and cultural events that Catalonia has experienced as a nation, including the Catalan -speaking territories. For a hundred years, the Magazine of Catalonia He has resisted all those temporary and spatial inclement we inexorably put the story in front of him. However, paraphrasing a title by Alain Corbin, the story of the great periods of silence conveys a clear message: economic crises, warlike conflicts, dictatorships and exiles; But his persistence, as Jaume Vicenç Vives said, is declined in “the will to be”.