Institut Ramon LLull

Catalan modernism and gastronomy to be exhibit in the United States

Culture.  United States, 26/09/2014

Cleveland and New York is honouring Catalan culture with two exhibitions about two of the most international Catalan authors. Antoni Gaudí’s modernist work, the Sagrada Família church to be precise, will be shown at Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture in the East Coast city. Otherwise, the Ferran Adrià’s culinary creativity will be present at the Museum of Contemporary Art in the city of Ohio throughout the exhibition of centenaries of notebooks that include ideas, concepts, drawings and pictures.




Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Arquitecture in the City College of New York explores the Sagrada Família as a symbol of Barcelona while it still is under construction. “Sagrada Família - Gaudí's Unfinished Materpiece: Geometry, Construction and Site” exhibition opens from 29 September to 8 May 2015. Over the course of the exhibitions, some free lectures have been scheduled, like those that will take place next October by Jordi Fauli (The Project and the Construction of the Basilica of the Sagrada Familia) or by Judith Rohrer (La Sagrada Familia: A Conflicted History).

Otherwise, from 26 September to 18 January 2015, the major exhibition ever made about intellect of the most famous Catalan chef, “Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity” will take place at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. Thus, his philosophical ideas and his way of understanding gastronomy will meet in centenaries of notebooks that include notes, concepts, ideas and drawings of some dishes from El Bulli restaurant. This exhibition will be later held by Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City (February-July 2015), Minneapolis Institute of Arts (September 2015 - January 2016) and Marres Centre of Contemporary Culture in the Netherlands (March-July 2016).

Two exhibitions about Antoni Gaudí and Ferran Adrià

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