Works by Rusiñol and Utrillo from Cau Ferrat escort the Japanese route of Catalan Modernism

The Art Museum of the Olympic city of Sapporo inaugurated on Saturday the exhibition Barcelona: the city of artistic miracles. The essence of Catalan Modern Art from Modernisme to Avant-garde , which offers a complete tour around Modernisme, Noucentisme and the Catalan avant-gardes, through 120 works of different formats: paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, models, plans and objects. The exhibition presents the transformation that the city lived in the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and its projection as an artistic territory with a European vocation. The exhibition is traveling to five Japanese cities and Cau Ferrat participates with the assignment of three works.

The exhibition represents one of the most ambitious exhibitions to present Catalan Modernism abroad. The organization counts with the participation of the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC), which has provided most of the works. The other organizing entities are the Nagasaki Museum and The Kobe Shimbun. The show arrives in Sapporo after being exposed in Nagasaki and Himeji. After the Olympic city, the exhibition will travel to Shizouka and, finally, will finish in Tokyo, between February 8 and April 5 next.

Three works from Cau Ferrat participate in the exhibition: two paintings by Santiago Rusiñol, La morfinòmona (1894) and Réverie (1894), and one by Miquel Utrillo, Portrait of Suzanne Valadon (1891). The first one, however, has been in the first two samples (Nagasaki and Himeji) and will return in the next few weeks in Sitges As it is one of the treasures of Cau Ferrat, the Heritage Consortium has opted for only a few months away from your usual place and not the time of the five exhibitions.

In addition to Santiago Rusiñol and Miquel Utrillo, Barcelona: the city of artistic miracles presents works by Ramon Casas, Isidre Nonell, Joaquim Sunyer, Joaquim Torres Garcia, Joaquim Mir, Juli González, Josep Clarà, Xavier Nogués and the architects Antoni Gaudí, Puig i Cadafalch and Josep Maria Jujol, among others.

Barcelona: the city of artistic miracles reflects through the works and its presentation the transformation of the capital during the last decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its reflection in modernism as a cultural movement that impregnated the city and the country. The urban expansion of the city, the 1888 exhibition, the influence and attraction of Paris and the emergence of Noucentisme and Avantguardes constitute the narrative thread of a remarkable ambition.

Locations of the exhibition:
Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum: April 10 to June 9, 2019
Himeji City Museum of Art: June 29 to September 1, 2019
Sapporo Art Park: September 14 to November 4, 2019
Shizuoka City Museum of Art: November 15, 2019 to January 19, 2020
Tokyo Station Gallery: February 8 to April 5, 2020