{"id":1166,"date":"2017-10-28T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gertrudmuller.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2023-10-05T10:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T08:23:54","slug":"mosaics-in-barcelona-not-only-gaudi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/mosaics-in-barcelona-not-only-gaudi\/","title":{"rendered":"Mosaics in Barcelona – not only Gaudi!"},"content":{"rendered":"

What comes in mind when you think of mosaics in Barcelona? Certainly Antonio Gaudi. But I was surprised when during the 13th ICCM conference<\/a> we were shown the gems of mosaic conservation in Catalonia and there was NO Gaudi amongst them!<\/p>\n

Let me take you to these places:<\/p>\n

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This is the\u00a0Recinte Modernista Sant Pau.<\/a>\"\"\u00a0Build between 1902 and 1930 it became UNESCO World Heritage in 1997. This is a mosaic on a facade depicting one of the patrons of the hospital Sant Damia.<\/p>\n

The architect\u00a0Llu\u00eds Dom\u00e8nech i Montaner (1850-1923) was one of the outstanding figures of Catalan Art Nouveau (Modernisme). For the decorations of the buildings mosaics were used everywhere using floral motives to bring nature into the buildings and to the hospital beds.<\/p>\n

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on the ceiling<\/p><\/div>\n

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on the floor<\/p><\/div>\n

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on the walls<\/p><\/div>\n

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on the facades telling the history of the hospital<\/p><\/div>\n

Another gem of art nouveau buildings richly decorated with mosaic and also stained glass works is the Palau da Musica<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Palau de la M\u00fasica Catalana was built between 1905 and 1908 \u00a0also by the modernist architect\u00a0Llu\u00eds Dom\u00e8nech i Montaner as a home for the choral society Orfe\u00f3 Catal\u00e0. Most impressive is the row of columns richly decorated with floral motives on the balcony of the intermission room.<\/p>\n

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On my final day in Barcelona I visited \u00a0Park G\u00fcell<\/a>\u00a0Gaudi’s unfinished work of a whole new garden city. \u00a0The mosaics in the park are famous because of the trencad\u00eds<\/a> technique that Gaudi rivived. \u00a0Being under reconstruction I did not go into the area with his famous mosaic works but rather enjoyed the marvelous \u00a0views from the park onto the city.<\/p>\n

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Barcelona from Park G\u00fcell<\/p><\/div>\n

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Nature square with its trencad\u00eds mosaic benches<\/p><\/div>\n

\"\" Coming back to the ICCM conference that brought me to Barcelona, I just received a thank you letter from the president of the Foundation – Roberto Nardi – stating:<\/p>\n

“we had a full 255 participants, while contributors from 35 countries shared their work through 48 paper presentations, 59 posters and 15 videos. Each of these overall achievements represents many communal and personal successes. The sessions dedicated to modern mosaics were received well and succeeded in our goal to expose our members to new materials, techniques and technologies”<\/p>\n

I congratulate the organizers in Barcelona in having chosen the best place to get exposed to modern mosaics.<\/p>\n

Video as a technique for documentation of projects was also one of the new features of this conference. Wait for my next blog to see my involvement in this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What comes in mind when you think of mosaics in Barcelona? Certainly Antonio Gaudi. But I was surprised when during the 13th ICCM conference we were shown the gems of mosaic conservation in Catalonia and there was NO Gaudi amongst them! Let me take you to these places: This is the\u00a0Recinte Modernista Sant Pau.\u00a0Build between 1902 and 1930 it became UNESCO World Heritage in 1997. This is a mosaic on a facade depicting one of the patrons of the hospital Sant Damia. The architect\u00a0Llu\u00eds Dom\u00e8nech i Montaner (1850-1923) was one of the outstanding figures of Catalan Art Nouveau (Modernisme). For the decorations of the buildings mosaics were used everywhere using floral motives to bring nature into the buildings and to the hospital beds.   Another gem of art nouveau buildings richly decorated with mosaic and also stained glass works is the Palau da Musica. The Palau de la M\u00fasica Catalana was built between 1905 and 1908 \u00a0also by the modernist architect\u00a0Llu\u00eds Dom\u00e8nech i Montaner as a home for the choral society Orfe\u00f3 Catal\u00e0. Most impressive …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-posts-en","category-random-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7029,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/7029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mosaicmoments.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}