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During the 2014-2015 season, the 42 exhibitions scheduled at the CaixaForum centres received more than 2.3 million visitors

The Louvre collections, Joan Miró,

the Phillips Collection masterpieces and Alvar Aalto will coexist at CaixaForum

Madrid for the 2015-2016 season

• ”la Caixa” Foundation presents its program for its social and cultural

centre in Madrid for the 2015-2016 season, marked by a global

cultural offering designed for audiences of all ages.

• Two big consecutive exhibitions will bring exceptional works from

the Louvre Museum to the CaixaForum Madrid. Drawing Versailles

will present, for the first time since the 18th century, the preparatory

cartoons and drawings that Charles Le Brun made for the Palace of

Versailles, which have been restored specifically for this exhibition

thanks to ”la Caixa”. The second collaborative project with the

Parisian museum, Women of Rome, will delve into the diverse and

prominent role of women in Roman society.

• In the summer of 2016, the great names in the history of painting will

be brought to CaixaForum Madrid. Goya, Cézanne, Manet, Courbet,

Sisley, Van Gogh, Degas, Picasso, Modigliani, Kandinsky, Pollock

and Rothko will be featured thanks to Conversations, a selection of

the best works from the Phillips Collection in Washington.

• The program features two other exhibitions that look at 20th century

art. The first is Miró and the object. Organised by the Joan Miró

Foundation, it is the first monographic exhibition that focuses on this

aspect of one of the most influential artists of the last century. It will

be followed by a collective exhibition curated by the Portuguese

artist Julião Sarmento, with work from the collections of ”la Caixa”,

the MACBA and the Gulbenkian Foundation.

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• Two of the program’s reoccurring themes over recent years –

architecture and photography – will also be represented with two

exhibitions. Firstly with a major retrospective dedicated to the

Finnish architect and designer Alvar Aalto, and secondly, with the

exhibition Five minutes, which brings together the best portraits by

photojournalist Pedro Madueño.

• The season will also focus on social projects, most notably My

world, jointly organised with the United Nations Organisation, and

One more exhibition, which gives a voice to vulnerable groups to

help enable them to develop artistic projects.

• A program that is in line with the CaixaForum model, whose seven

social and cultural centres received a total of 2.3 million visitors

during the 2014-2015 season. ”la Caixa” Foundation scheduled 42

exhibitions based around 27 different themes at these centres.

CaixaForum Madrid hosted 1332 activities during 2014, supported by

more than 760.000 visitors.

Madrid, September 9, 2015. The Deputy General Director of the ”la Caixa”

Banking Foundation, Elisa Durán; the Director of the Culture Department of the

”la Caixa” Banking Foundation, Ignasi Miró, and the Director of CaixaForum

Madrid, Isabel Fuentes, this morning presented next season’s programme for

the Group’s social and cultural centre in the city. The program is once again

governed by a clear principle, the civic nature of CaixaForum as a space of

unity between culture and citizenship, as is reflected in the broad and global

offering of activities where all audiences will find their place.

The CaixaForum model continues to consolidate itself as a platform aimed at

enhancing the value of culture and knowledge as elements of social

transformation. Through exhibitions, concerts, lectures, debates on current

affairs, social seminars, educational and family workshops and activities

addressed at groups of elderly people, ”la Caixa” Foundation continues to

promote knowledge and personal growth to citizens of all ages.

CaixaForum has seven cultural centres across Barcelona, Girona, Lleida,

Tarragona, Palma, Madrid and Zaragoza, to which an eighth centre in Seville,

currently under construction, will be added in the coming years.

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At these centres, ”la Caixa” Foundation scheduled

a total of 42 exhibitions based around 27

different themes for the 2014-2015 season. The

total number of visitors across the network of

centres between the months of September 2014

and August 2015 amounted to 2,302,308.

Looking ahead to the coming season, ”la Caixa”

Foundation has designed a comprehensive and

innovative program for the CaixaForum centres,

in the service of communication, socialization

and, ultimately, the welfare of all citizens, which

serves to cement their constitution as a unique model of a social, civic and

cultural centre.

From ancient Rome to the most current contemporary art, with a pause at

impressionism

”la Caixa” Foundation has made great efforts in the preparation of the program

for the 2015-2016 season at CaixaForum Madrid, with exhibitions covering

various disciplines, such as archaeology, painting, architecture, photography,

classic and contemporary culture, and social awareness; and thanks to the

Group’s alliances the 2015-1016 season will also see co-productions with

renowned national and international museums – the Louvre Museum, the

Gulbenkian Foundation and the Joan Miró Foundation.

One of the highlights of the season is certain to be the tandem of consecutive

exhibitions in Room 2, with works from the Louvre Museum. Thanks to the on-

going collaboration between the two institutions – with the signing of two

successive agreements (2008-2012 and 2012-2016) –, two jointly organised

exhibition projects will take place with works from the French museum, curated

by specialists from the Parisian museum.

The first of these exhibitions, Women of Rome: Seductive, maternal,

excessive, explains, through 200 pieces taken from domestic environments,

the important role that women played in Roman society. The works, some of

which have been restored specifically for this exhibition, uncover the change of

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mentality that occurred in Roman culture, with a latent contradiction between

the traditional image of aristocratic-type women and the reality of a society

where women were beginning to supersede their ancestral role.

In this sense, it is essential for ”la Caixa”, within the context of strategic

alliances like this, to be able to not only contribute to the generation of

knowledge by exhibiting these works, but to also preserve this valuable heritage

by promoting its restoration. In this sense, the second project, undertaken in

collaboration with the Louvre, is extraordinary.

Drawing Versailles. Sketches and cartoons by Charles Le Brun (1619-

1690) will allow the exhibition, for the first time since the 17th century and also

for the first time at CaixaForum Madrid – the selection of works on display in

Barcelona will be different to those exhibited in Madrid given their fragile

conservation state –, of a group of 30 large format cartoons (scale 1:1) made by

the court painter Charles Le Brun to decorate the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of

Versailles.

Le Brun was the most important artist, painter and designer during the first

decades of the reign of Louis XIV. Besides being the first painter of the so-

called Sun King, he was director of the Gobelins factory, overseeing the

production of tapestries and furniture for the royal palaces.

At the time of his death, his drawings and cartoons were seized by Louis XIV

and have been virtually kept in storage since then. They have not been

exhibited for over three centuries and have undergone a complete restoration

for their display in Madrid. The exhibition is notable for its staging, which will

reproduce the ceiling in the Hall of Mirrors and the now non-existent

Ambassadors Staircase, as well as for its educational component, which will

delve into the techniques used in the mural painting.

Following the major retrospective

dedicated to Le Corbusier in 2014, the

architecture will take centre stage this

year with a major exhibition devoted to

one of the 20th century’s most influential

figures in this discipline. Alvar Aalto.

1898-1976. Organic architecture, art

and design is a joint project, organised

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alongside the Vitra Design Museum and the Alvar Aalto Museum, that presents

a broad overview of the life and production of this legendary architect, looking in

detail at his most representative buildings and numerous designs and revealing

new aspects of production, seen through historical models, original drawings,

furniture, lamps, glass objects and historical, and modern photographs, taken

by the photographer Armin Linke.

Thanks to another of the outstanding collaborations of ”la Caixa”, in this case

with the Joan Miró Foundation, the exhibition Miró and the object will arrive in

Madrid, the most complete monograph exhibition to touch on this facet of one of

the most influential artists of the 20th century. The selection includes paintings,

collages, objects, ceramics and sculptures from the Joan Miró Foundation, and

is enriched with important contributions from public and private collections from

Europe and America.

Miró and the object aims to show the challenge that Miró posed to painting at

the end of the 1920s, and how respect and an intense dialogue with the objects

around him contributed to a fundamental transformation in the conception of art

of the 20th century.

The program featuring the most recent art will continue with The weight of a

gesture. After opening up the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Spanish Art Collection

to Spanish artists like Luis Gordillo, Juan Uslé or Soledad Sevilla in recent

years in order for them to curate exhibitions, this season the Group has decided

to invite one of Portugal’s most outstanding contemporary artists, Julião

Sarmento.

This focus on our neighbouring country takes place within the framework of the

Group’s strategic partnership with the Gulbenkian Foundation, an institution with

an outstanding collection of contemporary Portuguese art, for the development

of social, educational and cultural programs. The exhibition will also delve into

the collection of the MACBA, given the collaboration that ”la Caixa” maintains

with the entity for the coordinated management of both of their collections.

In The weight of a gesture, Sarmento goes back in time, to the end of 19th

century, using a work by Degas as the foundation to establish a dialogue

between the past and the present. Thus, in skipping a chronological order, he

opens up new and surprising interpretations of works from recent decades in

different formats, styles, trends and countries. We can find some reference

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names from the international contemporary art scene, like Gerhard Richter,

Juan Muñoz, Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Robert Gober, Gabriel Abrantes,

Thomas Hirschhorn, João Onofre, Rita McBride and Nancy Spero.

Degas will feature at CaixaForum Madrid twice this season, as he is one of the

artists that will form part of Conversations. Masterpieces of impressionism

and modern art from the Phillips Collection. The exhibition will include 60

paintings, with works from Ingres to Rothko moving through Goya, Constable,

Corot, Courbet, Delacroix, Sisley, Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Picasso,

Rousseau, Bonnard, Modigliani, Gris, Braque, Kandinsky, Kokoschka and

Pollock.

Photography will be featured this season with Pedro Madueño. Five minutes.

Journalistic portraits, 1977-2015, is a selection of portraits of writers,

politicians and show business personalities that have been taken over the last

three decades by the photojournalist. Madueño's work becomes an exceptional

testimony of thirty years of journalism in our country.

The program of CaixaForum Madrid will also include themes of social and

current affairs that resonate the will of the ”la Caixa” Foundation to reflect on the

needs of citizens and provide them with answers. The centre will host My

world. Challenges for a Better World, an exhibition jointly organized with the

United Nations that will make the new Sustainable Development Goals known

(to be announced on 27 September). Thanks to an experiential exhibition

design, visitors will be active participants in being witness to the testimonies of

25 anonymous people from different countries who converse with known

personalities, to jointly present these objectives.

Following this, One more exhibition provides evidence that the creative

process can result in being an effective tool to empower vulnerable groups. And

it does so by providing them with their own voice, with equal conditions and

opportunities, and giving them visibility through the creation of artistic pieces.

Intense agenda of activities for audiences of all ages

CaixaForum Madrid is much more than just an exhibition space. Within it,

”la Caixa” Foundation wants to help create a space for the dissemination of the

arts and humanities, promote the debate of ideas, trends and research on

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today's society, and foster a dialogue and reflection on big social

transformations.

An extensive repertoire of cultural proposals – lectures, workshops,

concerts, performing arts and a cinematic program –, is the basis chosen to

delve deeper into the foundations of our culture and to offer the keys that should

enable the audience to understand the major changes in todays' society.

For yet another season, the most varied issues and disciplines – science,

economics, classical and contemporary thought, literature and poetry, cinema,

visual arts, etc. – will be discussed at CaixaForum with the objective to

promote social debate of our current times and delving into the origin of

our cultural roots.

In addition to the lectures and family workshops, music will also be featured

at CaixaForum Madrid, with concerts for adults and children. Sounds,

instruments and styles from all ages and all places from around the world will

resonate in a privileged area designed for enjoying music across the five

senses.

The performing arts, through original shows, will captivate the imagination of

children. Cinema will also have its place at CaixaForum, including those that are

exhibition-related, to cartoons for the young. Finally, family activities will allow

audiences of all ages to approach art in a fun and different way.

CaixaForum Madrid will also offer a renewed agenda of activities for school

children. Within the framework of the eduCaixa program, last season the

centre received 38,790 visiting school children. The family audience, as well as

the elderly, and cultural activities with a social impact will also have a place at

the centre that ”la Caixa” Foundation makes available to people of all ages and

educational levels.

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PROGRAM PREVIEW

CAIXAFORUM MADRID

2015-2016

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Alvar Aalto

1898-1976. Organic

Architecture, Art and Design.

From 30 September 2015 to 10 January 2016

«Savoy» vase, Alvar Aalto, 1936 © Vitra Design Museum, Alexander Vegesack, VEGAP, Barcelona, 2015

CaixaForum Madrid presents a major retrospective on one of the key figures of

the 20th century’s artistic and architectural avant-garde

Alvar Aalto is the best known Finnish architect from among those of his generation, and

one of the main proponents of the humanized modernism movement. His buildings,

such as the Paimio Sanatorium (1933) for tuberculosis, or the Vila Mairea (1939),

reflect a masterful interplay of volumes, shapes and organic materials. His Paimio

Chair (1931-1932) and his Stool 60 (1933) were milestones in the development of

modern furniture, and his iconic "Savoy" vase (1936) has become the symbol of

Finnish design

”la Caixa” Foundation, together with the Vitra Design Museum (Weil am Rhein,

Germany) and the Alvar Aalto Museum (Jyväskylä, Finland), present this major

retrospective of the legendary architect, incorporating a contemporary analysis where

Aalto's affinity with organic shapes is related to the close dialogue he held with artists

of his time, like László Moholy-Nagy, Jean Arp, Alexander Calder and Fernand Léger.

There are, in total, 350 pieces on display, between models, furniture, lamps, original

drawings, historic photographs and new images by Armin Linke. For this show at

CaixaForum Madrid, the exhibition will feature a section that looks in detail at the

architect's visits to Spain in 1951.

Curator: Jochen Eisenbrand, Chief Curator at the Vitra Design Museum.

Organisation: Exhibition by the Vitra Design Museum (Germany) and of the Alvar Aalto

Museum (Finland), in collaboration with the ”la Caixa” Foundation

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Women of Rome.

Seductive, maternal, excessive

From 4 November 2015 to 14 February 2016

A selection of more than 200 pieces from

the Louvre Museum shows the

representation of women in the decoration

of Roman villas Polyhymmia, Borghese collection, marble, I - II Century AD. Musée du

Louvre © RMN-Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre) / Hervé Lewandowski

In comparison to other ancient societies, women occupied a prominently place in

Rome. Within Roman society there was a place for some evolution of the status of

women, perceptible not only in customs, but also in the mentality, in their

representation and in household decor. This change in mentality generated a

contradiction between a traditional aristocratic-type image and the reality of a society in

which women began to emancipate themselves and where their accomplishments

enabled them to overcome the ancestral role assigned to them. The status of certain

women of privilege in Rome resulted in varied representations of women, from the

perspective of mythology, religion and maternal strength, as well as in the allegory of

seduction and excess.

Women of Rome brings together more than 200 Roman pieces from domestic

environments representing women, goddesses and mythological beings. The exhibition

includes outstanding works, like a group of mural paintings from Pompeii and the so-called

Campana slabs, painted terracotta slabs recently restored thanks to the collaboration

agreement between ”la Caixa” and the Louvre and that will be presented for the first time at

the CaixaForum centres that feature on the exhibition’s itinerary.

Curator: Daniel Roger, Chief Heritage Curator from the Department of Greek, Etruscan and

Roman Antiquities at the Louvre Museum and Aurélie Pirou, collaborator in the Department of

Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities at the Louvre Museum.

Organisation: ”la Caixa” Foundation and the Louvre Museum

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Miró and the object

From 10 February to 22 May 2016

CaixaForum Madrid hosts the first monographic

exhibition devoted to the object in Joan Miró’s

productions, with more than 130 works Joan Miró, Seated woman and child 1967 Joan Miró Foundation. © Successió Miró 2015

The exhibition reiterates that Joan Miró was much more than a painter, that he

experimented with a wide range of unconventional art materials and ideas and that,

through a process of challenging painting and adhering to the new concept of the

object, caused a major change in our perception of art.

The exhibition examines the way the artist depicts objects in his paintings and how he

comes to gradually incorporate the physical object in the painting through the use of

collage. This process meant, at the end of the 1920s, a head-on challenge to the visual

arts, which he himself defined as the "assassination of painting". After the Spanish Civil

War and World War II, Miró remained firmly committed to the object, by exploring the

possibilities of ceramics and by making sculptures in bronze and iron. The exhibition

ends paying attention to the artist's last years and to what has been called the "anti-

painting", the ultimate expression of which is present in the breakthrough works that the

artist created in the late 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, many of which were

exhibited at the Grand Palais in Paris in 1974.

Miró and the object consists of about 130 works, including paintings, collages, objects,

ceramics and sculptures from major public and private collections in Europe and

America.

Curator: William Jeffett, Chief Curator of the Salvador Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg (Florida,

United States).

Organisation: ”la Caixa” Foundation, in collaboration with the Joan Miró Foundation

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Drawing Versailles. Sketches and cartoons by Charles

Le Brun (1619-1690)

From 16 March to 19 June 2016

CaixaForum Madrid exhibits an exceptional

selection of drawings by the French painter,

expressly restored for this exhibition

Charles Le Brun, Order Restored in the Kingdom's Finances. Louvre Museum ©RMN-Grand Palais - Photo G. Blot

This exhibition of a selection of a hundred pieces by the French painter Charles Le

Brun, known as the first painter to Louis XIV, has been made possible thanks to the

collaboration between ”la Caixa” Foundation and the Louvre Museum. Highlights from

among these works include 30 of the cartoons made as preparatory drawings (scale

1:1) for the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, his great work, and for the

Ambassadors Staircase, destroyed in 1752. This exceptional loan will be

complemented with sketches and etchings.

The King Louis XIV seized the sketches and cartoons at the time of the artist's death,

thanks to which have survived to this day. The vast majority of these large sized

cartoons (some of them span 3×4 meters) are now on public display for the first time

since the 18th century. The works have undergone a complete restoration undertaken

specifically for the exhibitions at CaixaForum Madrid and CaixaForum Barcelona. At

each of these venues the pieces being exhibited will be different, given their fragile

conservation state. The exhibition has been conceived with a clear educational

component – to explain the various techniques employed to "trace" the cartoons onto

the ceiling, and the restoration process carried out – as well as a staging purpose,

reproducing the Hall of Mirrors and the now non-existent Ambassadors Staircase.

Curator: Bénédicte Gady, scientific collaborator at the Department of Graphic Arts at

the Louvre Museum

Organisation: Exhibition co-organised by the ”la Caixa” Foundation and the Louvre

Museum.

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The weight of a gesture The Julião Sarmento’s gaze at

the Gulbenkian, MACBA and

”la Caixa” collections

From 16 June to 18 September de 2016

Gabriel Abrantes, Olympia 1 & 2, 2006. CAM. © Gabriel Abrantes

An enigmatic work by Edgar Degas articulates the exhibition designed by this

Portuguese artist taking the works from three collections as its foundation

Following a previous experience with Spanish artists like Juan Uslé, Soledad Sevilla

and Luis Gordillo, ”la Caixa” has now invited the Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento to

prepare an exhibition, exercising his unique perspective, with works taken from

”la Caixa”, the MACBA and the Gulbenkian Foundation's Centre of Modern Art in

Lisbon as the foundation to this new exhibition. The joint venture between these three

important contemporary art collections in the Iberian Peninsula is a result of the

collaboration agreement between ”la Caixa” and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation,

which has previously allowed ”la Caixa” to organize a joint exhibition in Lisbon last

June.

Sarmento took on the challenge, turning the idea into the possibility to create a work

that, as had many of his other works, would combine images and ideas to compose a

fiction from echoes, suggestions and impressions. In the same way that there is

nothing definitive in his work – he leaves conclusions in the hands of the spectators –,

in this exhibition he dwells on the enigma to stimulate the imagination and provoke

interpretations. Within the exhibition what Sarmento articulates is a selection of

contemporary art works around an enigmatic painting by Edgar Degas.

Curator: Julião Sarmento, artist

Organisation: ”la Caixa” Foundation, in collaboration with the Calouste Gulbenkian

Foundation and the MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona)

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Conversations Masterpieces of

impressionism and modern

art from the Phillips

Collection

From 15 July to 23 October 2016

Cézanne, Paul, Mont Sainte-Victoire, between 1886 and 1887. Acquired 1925. The Phillips Collection, Washington. D.C.

CaixaForum Madrid maps out a tour through the paintings of the last 200 years

with a selection of masterpieces from this American collection

The Phillips Collection’s masterpieces only rarely leave the collection's headquarters in

Washington – and at the time of its opening in 1921, it was the first modern art

museum in the United States. This is one of the most important collections of modern

art in America, centred on modern and avant-garde art, and it currently holds an

extraordinary collection of over 3000 works, ranging from masterpieces of French

Impressionism and American modernism to contemporary art.

Conversations will span the history of painting from the last 200 years, from

Romanticism to Abstract Expressionism, through to the display of work by some of the

great masters, like Goya, Manet, Courbet, Sisley, Van Gogh, Degas, Picasso,

Modigliani, Kandinsky, Pollock, and Rothko among many others.

It will feature 60 works by the most influential artists from each of these art movements,

an exceptional opportunity for visitors to see major works of the history of painting up

close. The design of the exhibition will establish a dialogue between these

masterpieces, framing them in a chronological discourse that will present a clear

observation of the evolution of styles from the 19th century, highlighting the underlying

common features in the art of different periods.

Curator: Susan Frank

Organisation: Exhibition organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. with

the collaboration of ”la Caixa” Foundation

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Pedro Madueño. Five minutes. Journal portraits,

1977-2015

From 16 October 2015 to 10 January 2016

CaixaForum Madrid hosts a selection of the best

photographs published by this photojournalist in his

more than three decades of profession Adolfo Marsillach, actor. Barcelona, 1996 © Pedro Madueño

"The portrait is the most complete art genre, it is the very essence of photography." An

exceptional testimony of three decades of journalism, the work done by Peter Maduro

for the journal La Vanguardia has a unique perspective on what is the essence of the

journalistic portrait.

His photographs are a reference, because of their ability to delve into the psychology of

the characters, the rigor of the composition and the instinct that leads him to discover

new perspectives and different points of view in record time: five minutes in which to

find the perfect image. His work also highlights a concern for purely photographic

factors, like the play of light and shadow or the image density.

Pedro Madueño. Five minutes. Journalistic portraits, 1977-2015, organised by

”la Caixa” Foundation, brings together around fifty portraits of personalities from the

worlds of literature and journalism (Terence Moix, Baltasar Porcel, Juan Marsé, John

Irving), and from the entertainment, art and photography worlds (Francesc Català-

Roca, Antoni Tàpies, Eduardo Chillida, Nazario, Pina Bausch, Ferran Adrià, José

Tomás).

Curator: Julià Guillamon

Organisation: ”la Caixa” Foundation

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My world

Challenges for a better world

From 4 February to 21 May 2016

The exhibition reflects the main challenges that humanity faces in the coming

years to help improve the lives of people and protect the planet

On September 27, 2015, the United Nations will announce the new Sustainable

Development Goals (SDGs) formulated after a public participation process on a global

level. The main purpose of the SDGs is to improve the lives of people and help protect

the planet for future generations.

The exhibition, "My World, challenges for a better world", organised in collaboration

with the United Nations, aims to disseminate the new SDGs, but above all to motivate

and involve visitors, through a participatory and experiential exhibition design. Thus,

visitors will enter a space where via an audio-visual installation they will be witness to

testimonies from people from 25 countries that express the issues that they have to

face on a day-to-day basis, opening up a dialogue with celebrities who will be

presenting the new SDGs. Visitor themselves will be able to participate, addressing

those issues they believe are fundamental to improving the living conditions of

everybody in the "UN podium".

Since 1997, ”la Caixa” Foundation, through their International Department, has been

working on their commitment to help eradicate poverty in the most vulnerable

populations in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The program takes place on the ground

and through exhibitions like this, with the objective of raising public awareness.

Organisation: International Department of ”la Caixa” Foundation

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One more expo.

Unknown visions seen through art

From 29 June to 18 October 2016

To get to know whom the authors of the works featured in this exhibition are,

visitors must first reach the end of the exhibition. Because if they discovered

their identities at the very beginning, they would probably read the works in a

different way

The exhibition proves that the creative process can become an effective tool in

empowering vulnerable groups. And it does so by giving them their own voice, with

equal opportunities and conditions, and visibility through the creation of artistic pieces.

Curated by Frederic Montornés, the exhibition is a showcase, a space in which the

results of these creative processes are confronted through the gaze of the viewer, and

these processes activate the required dialogue so that the differences between

everyone are being bridged more and more.

The eight initiatives that form the exhibition have been led by artists or groups of

creators who have employed their work tools to the service of groups living through

various situations of vulnerability, so that they could shape their messages using

photography, design or visual arts, among other artistic disciplines.

These works are the result of some of the projects submitted to the Art for Social

Improvement call for grants which the ”la Caixa” Foundation has been running annually

since 2008. The purpose of these grants is to support cultural activities from any artistic

discipline led by artists, in which they actively participate by intervening via a creative

process in mainly socially fragile collectives, to improve aspects such as personal

development, social cohesion and inclusion, and the social regeneration of a

community nature.

Curator: Frederic Montornés

Organisation: Cultural Department at ”la Caixa” Foundation

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