 | [5/3/2009 - 5/4/2009]
This exhibition can be visited from March 5th to April 5th, 2009 at
Museu Industrial del Ter (Manlleu)
A collection of pictures of the industrial villages more emblematic of Catalonia carried out by the photographer Lluís Casals. The itinerant sample will be exposed, along 2009, in several museums of the Territorial System of the mNACTEC.
The exhibition has a version in German that you can visit in Renània, fruit of the collaboration with the Rheinisches Industriemuseum.
The exhibition aims to give a picture of the textile communities, based on the perspective of photographer Lluís Casals, who provides some nostalgic images of what the industrial villages are today.
The display of photographs is integrated into a broader vision that aims to show the great number of industrial villages built in Catalonia in the early 20th century, primarily for the manufacture of cotton fabrics. On the banks of the Llobregat and Ter rivers lies Europe’s largest conglomeration of textile communities. These villages represented a new, absolutely innovative form of town planning that broke with the way villages had previously been created in the hinterland of Catalonia. They were new communities in which the owners promoted social, cultural and religious interaction.
Sixty photographs of industrial villages have been selected, grouped into six themes: landscape, the owner’s villa, energy, industrial architecture, workers’ housing and community life. Each section has ten photographs showing us the current state of these places that are a mystery to most of us today and depicting the most significant features of how they functioned. There are also some original objects on display from some of these villages.
[26/10/2008 - 4/1/2009] at mNACTEC
|
