Teaching is learning 2023

The exhibition Teaching is learning is a tribute to Albert Ràfols Casamada and Maria Girona, two of the most outstanding Catalan painters of their generation, humanists and educators and founders of EINA.

This exhibition commemorates the centenary of the birth of both artists, and is an initiative that forms part of a series of activities organised by the EINA Foundation, the Bassat Foundation and the Vila Casas Foundation.

The exhibition focuses on their pedagogical contribution as directors and trustees of the EINA Foundation between 1967 and 2009. Emphasis is placed on the subjects they taught in the Design studies, as well as through the Art studies.

The exhibition brings together works from the art collection of the EINA Foundation, as well as an extensive sample of material from the EINA Archive that summarises the performances, exhibitions, pedagogical initiatives through photographs, manuscript documents, posters and audiovisuals.

Teaching is learning will be open from 9 May to 9 June and can be visited from Monday to Friday from 10am to 7pm, and Saturday from 10am to 1.30pm at EINA Sentmenat (Passeig Santa Eulàlia, 25).

In parallel to the exhibition there will be a series of activities:

Saturday 20 May
11am – Guided tour of the exhibition with Josep Aregall
11.30am – Guided visit to the art collection with Rubén Alcaraz
Noon –  'El meu jardí a la mà': demonstration of floral art in homage to Maria Girona and Albert Ràfols by Alfons Tost and Roser Bofill

Saturday 27 May
11am – Guided tour of the exhibition with Xavier Olivé
11.30am – Guided visit to the art collection with Miquel Molins
Noon- Life drawing class in homage to Francesc Artigau, professor of drawing at EINA, coordinated by Mar Saiz and presentation of the Friend of EINA award to Francesc Artigau, by Miquel Molins

Saturday 3 June
10.30am – Exhibition of original documents from the archive collection with Rubén Alcaraz
11am – Guided tour of the exhibition with Xavier Olivé and Josep Aregall
11.30am – Guided tour of the art collection with Victoria Combalía
12.30pm – Guided tour of the art collection with Jordi Colomer
1pm – Exhibition of original documents from the archive collection with Rubén Alcaraz

All the people in charge of the visits have been linked to EINA as students and/or teachers.

→ New bibliographic additions for the centenary of the birth of Albert Ràfols Casamada and Maria Girona