One of the scheduled visits for the History and Critique of Design in Catalonia subject, led by Oriol Pibernat, was to the Pavilion of the Republic situated in...
One of the scheduled visits for the History and Critique of Design in Catalonia subject, led by Oriol Pibernat, was to the Pavilion of the Republic situated in Barcelona’s Horta district.
The activity offered more direct knowledge of the pavilion’s architecture by Sert and Lacasa, and the artistic and propaganda contents exhibited in Paris in 1937 at the Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne. Besides this, the reasons and circumstances of its reconstruction in this new location in 1992 were discussed, which was a milestone in the changing reputation of the pavilion over the years, where Picasso’s Guernica and other major works by artists such as Miró, Calder, Julio González and Alberto were exhibited, as well as the photo-montages of Renau.
The visit was completed with an explanation of the collection of the (CRAI-UB) library/archive, housed in the basement, which contain major collections of graphic and text materials, especially propaganda from the Civil War period, the Franco years, the Transition and up to the present day.
