Image and film professor, member of the administration team, and promoter of Eina Foundation
Friend of Eina 1999
Who better than Albert Ràfols Casamada to pay tribute to him in his appointment speech:
Joan Enric Lahosa taught the Semiology of the Image, Iconic Language, Theory of Communication, History of Cinema, and History of Art subjects at EINA from 1972 to the end of the 1990s.
“The paradox in visual arts” lecture by J. E. Lahosa during the inauguration of academic year 1980-81.
In 1990 he was one of the main promoters of the EINA Foundation as a private foundation in order to promote cultural debate and humanistic, critical, and multidisciplinary education, which would also unite the school years later.
“The consecration of spring” 1982. Lecture series to celebrate centenarians. Lahosa gave a talk on Man Ray. Poster designed by Xavier Olivé.
He participated in numerous seminars and conferences, including:
“The imaginary space” 1979.
Within image studies he coordinated interdisciplinary debate with writers, poets, musicians, image theorists, and theatre directors.
“Landscape: the landscape, natural and artificial environment” 1978.
Architects, artists, designers, and theorists, all EINA professors, looking for a new arcadia. Each year a theme was proposed to be discussed together.
A chef and a great fan of cuisine, he introduced cooking as a culture with the seminars “Taste in the kitchen” (1978), “Taste and Style: exchanging sensations” (1981), and “Taste and style: the artist’s kitchen” (1995) within the educational offering at EINA. These hands-on sessions, held at the Casa Manuel Dolcet, featured professors Miquel Espinet, Xavier Olivé, Joan Enric Lahosa, and Llorenç Torrado, who cooked in front of attendees while discussing restoration, staging, leisure, literary references, cuisine as art, and oenology. The Tele/eXpres newspaper highlighted them with the headline “They don't teach cooking, but focus on cuisine as an exercise in culture.”
Cover and inside page of Tele/exprés, 1978.
A film critic and historian, Joan Enric Lahosa was a member of the Catalan Society of Communication since 1968 as well as the Federation of Cineclubs. In addition, he served as a professor and Academic Registrar at the Theatre Institute, introducing image and video studies starting in the 1980s. He also taught within the UAB’s art department.
As Miquel Molins, president of the EINA Foundation Board of Trustees, explained: "I met him at the Autonomous University of Barcelona when I was teaching film classes, in what was then called the Department of Art, and he exuded theories and critical thinking. I remember him fondly as very cultured and intelligent, unique in the academic environment, and able to seduce students who were eager for modernity. His brilliant and profound judgment shaped my initial and basic knowledge of cinema and images in general."