Two works from Cau Ferrat arrive in Tokyo

Tokyo is the final stop of the exhibition Barcelona, the city of artistic miracles, following its journey since April last year in various Japanese cities. The exhibition presents 120 works of Modernism, Noucentisme and the Catalan avant-gardes, including three paintings from Cau Ferrat, which have allowed the Japanese public to see the transformation that Barcelona underwent in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Its projection as an artistic territory with a European vocation. In Tokyo you can see oil by Santiago Rusiñol and another by Miquel Utrillo that are part of the collection of Cau Ferrat. 

Barcelona, the city of artistic miracles arrives in Tokyo after stopping in Nagasaki (where the route began on April 10 last year), Himeji, Sapporo and Shizuoka. In the Japanese capital, it opened last Saturday and will be on display at the Tokyo Station Gallery until April 5. The Japanese route has been organized by the museums that have hosted the exhibition, with the determined participation of the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC).

There are two works in the Tokyo Station Gallery from the Cau Ferrat collection: Réverie (1894), by Santiago Rusiñol, and Portrait of Suzanne Valadon (1891), by Miquel Utrillo. In the first two stops of the exhibition (in Nagasaki and Himeji), the Morphinomaniac (1894), by Rusiñol, was exhibited instead of Réverie, but as it was one of the most emblematic works of Cau Ferrat , the Sitges Heritage Consortium chose to loan it for only two of the five exhibitions scheduled.

The exhibition is one of the most ambitious presentations of Catalan Modernism on the international scene. The 120 works that have traveled from the Catalan collections to Japan provide a precise picture of the Catalan art of the turn of the century and the transformation of Barcelona as a cosmopolitan city that promotes artistic effervescence with a projection abroad. Japan has, for decades, been one of the countries that have shown the greatest interest and admiration for Catalan Modernism, and in particular, for Gaudí.

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 García, Joaquim Mir, Juli González, Josep Clarà, Xavier Nogués and the architects Antoni Gaudí, Puig i Cadafalch and Josep Maria Jujol, among others. The exhibition also features a large photograph of the Cau Ferrat just after inauguration125 years ago.