Program CRiG . Rubiralta i Garriga Collection.
Virtual immersive museum, interactive exhibitions and activities.
Commissioners: Montserrat Rubiralta and Xavier Rovira Rubiralta.
With the collaboration of Ester Rovira, Carles Duarte, Francesc Fontbona, Pilar Vélez, Marc Antoni Malagarriga, Jaume Ayats
i Abeyà, Beatriu Daniel i Toni Jodar, Amadeu Carbó, Montserrat Noguera, Alèxia Lleonart, Jesús Manuel Pérez and students
from different schools of Art, Design and New Technologies.
Art Work VR: Xavier Rovira Rubiralta.
CRiG, Rubiralta i Garriga Collection, contains more than 300 extraordinary xylographic matrices from the oldest lineage in Europe, the Abadal family of artists in Catalonia, which help us value the importance of our tradition and the exquisite mastery of the artisans of the 17th to 19th centuries, and which at the same time allow us to understand a central aspect of the transmission of knowledge through the reproduction of images over a long period.
Thanks to these works of art, we learn from the fruit of a craft through which we have been able to have for half a millennium a sufficiently approximate idea of the physical appearance of many traditional realities, now essential in our contemporary world.
The CRiG program presents an immersive virtual Museum in a continuous process of transformation, traveling Exhibitions, Publications and interactive educational activities.
CRiG The solar cycle
CRiG and the jobs
From CRiG We observe with concern the danger posed by the lack of generational change in many artisan trades. The disappearance of artisan techniques entails the possible loss of this knowledge forever. Craftsmanship is in our roots. Roots that we have been acquiring, not in written form, but orally and it is our hallmark of identity. We are committed to claiming these jobs through the Program CRiG Immersive museum and Apps in Virtual Reality.
CRiG and the solar cycle
The work of artisans is necessarily linked to the place where it is produced and the solar cycle. Thus, the artists are nourished by what surrounds them, letting the landscape, the light and their context influence the works. That is why every artisan piece is unique, its production varying depending on the territory in which it is produced, since this determines, in many cases, the techniques, style or materials used.
