The travelling exhibition "Modernisme and Flowers: From Nature to Architecture" focuses on how the decorative arts of Modernisme represented plants and flowers when used in construction. An exhibition is for the first time establishing a dialogue between the world of plants and Modernista architecture. The exhibition discourse has been divided into four areas. The first explains the creative process of artists when "capturing" the images of flowers. The second involves a journey through eight applied arts fields in architecture and their respective creation processes: ceramics, mosaics, ironwork, stonework, stucco, hydraulic mosaics, stained glass and plasterwork. The third offers an exhibition tour of flowers and plants that recreate a huge timeless garden. The exhibition concludes by looking at the difficulty of preserving the applied arts in construction. The exhibition at the Casa-Museu Lluís Domènech i Montaner in Canet de Mar has been enlarged with new pieces and also pays special attention to how flowers were represented in ceramics  in the buildings by the architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner.

The exhibition curators are Fatima López, Marta Saliné and Sergio de la Fuente, PhDs in Art History and members of the GRACMON research group at the University of Barcelona.

Exchanging ideas, history, intellectual growth, future... These are the proposed basics of the III Ibero-American Congress on the History of Furniture 2020, which is set to attract major sector experts from around the world to Barcelona. It is accordingly the only congress that delves into the history of furniture and brings together valuable knowledge to enhance progress in this field of research.
Under the title Connections/Conexões/Connections, the Congress will focus on the temporal, geographical, material and formal connections of Spanish, Portuguese and English furniture, which are also its three working languages.

Proposals for papers can be presented until 31 March at: congreso@estudidelmoble.com

This MAK exhibition presents the figure of Otto Prutscher (1880-1949) seventy years after his death, including the manifold roles he played in developing Viennese Modernism. Prutscher was an architect and designer who employed the entire variety of applied arts materials and was also an exhibition designer, teacher and member of all the major art reform movements, from the Secession to the Wiener Werkstätte and Werkbund.

The touring exhibition "Blue. The Colour of Art Nouveau" aims to explore the spirit of a period in which blue was a predominant thread. In the late nineteenth century, relating landscapes and the phenomena of nature to moods, so as to transmit the soul's hues and tonalities, ended up constituting a poetological aesthetic that became inscribed within the great movement of modernity, moving through Symbolism and witnessing the birth of the cinematograph.

The conference will approach the term Revivals with regard to Decorative Arts and Design to be interpreted as any domestic or public furnishings including but not limited to textiles, silverware, furniture, wallpaper, tableware, interior decoration as a whole, graphic design, as well as personal accessories (excluding fashion). Also welcome presentations on revivals within decorative and applied art traditions (ceramics, lacquer, metalwork, textiles, woodwork, etc.) made for utilitarian or connoisseurial purposes.

The conference includes two extra days for the post conference tour to Coimbra and Porto on 17 and 18 October.

Proposals for papers can be presented until 15 April 2020.

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