Commissioner for Culture and Human Quality for bvic, 2023_24: Pilar Vélez Art Work VR: Xavier Rovira Rubiralta
The Culture and Human Quality program focuses on four basic materials and four creative areas, between art, architecture, crafts and design, closely related:
. Ceramic Creation and Ceramics applied to Architecture.
Participating creators: Madola and Toni Cumella (Ceràmiques Cumella).
. Architecture, Wood and Furniture. Participating creators: Josep Maria Jujol and Gabriel Moragues (Mobles114).
. Creation in Crystal, Glass, Stained Glass and various objects.
Participating creators: Lucia Bruni (Lucirmás) and Jordi Bonet (Vitralls Bonet).
. Creation in Textile Fibers, Fabrics and Carpets.
Participating creators: Ronan + Erwan Bouroulec, Begüm Cana Ózgür, Sabine Finkenauer, Jaime Hayon, Nani Marquina, Santi Moix, Sybilla, Elisa Padrón, Nao Tamura, Oscar Tusquets and Claudia Valsells (nanimarquina).
Josep Maria Jujol
art, architecture and wood
The world of creativity: from crafts to art and design.
Traditional artisan trades with the passage of time, industrialization and postmodernism have undergone important transformations, and have progressively adapted to the new sociocultural context.
The world of the everyday, useful object, as defended by the utopian William Morris (1834-1896), or the Japanese master Soetsu Yanagi (1889-1961), had to be beautiful, if he wanted to be honest. Beauty and utility coincide in the simple and the practical, in everyday objects, both products of traditional artisan production and contemporary design.
Nowadays, the link between craftsmanship and design is increasingly closer: Artisans incorporate design into their creations to improve them, and designers learn from craftsmanship to provide their creations with more sustainable materials and shapes.
Lucia Bruni
glass creation and sustainability
The sincerity of natural materials
This fact leads us to reflect on the value of the object and its impact on our lives: the taste for simple and well-made objects, the sincerity of natural materials, the affection for everyday objects that accompany us throughout our lives, education in beauty through close and simple objects, learning to appreciate beauty of simplicity and respect for tradition...
Vitralls Bonet
art, stained glass and various objects
Germinal Universe Program
Germinal universe
Do you know the female mythological characters?
Germinal Universe Program
Scientific commissioner: María José Aranzasti. Historian, specialist in art and gender equality. Art Work VR and collaboration in curating: Xavier Rovira Rubiralta.
Do you know the female mythological characters?
Germinal Universe deals with mythology from a gender point of view, in which it wants to give voice and value the female figures that represent the mythological origins in the Basque Country, with universal parallel similarities.
We will enter a gigantic cave where rituals and celebrations take place, and we will explore that mysterious and wild nature. A multifaceted space for wisdom, knowledge, the most ancient culture, medicine, struggle, art, dance...
