The stables of the Güell Estate have been open to the public once again since 1 June. This work by Antoni Gaudí, also known as the Güell Pavilions, can now be visited again after having closed its doors in 2018 to begin restoration work.

Those visiting the site can do so in two different ways: a self-guided or guided tour. The latter lasts approximately 50 minutes and can be conducted in Catalan, Spanish or English. Opening hours are from 10 am to 4 pm all year round (except 25 and 26 December, and 1 and 6 January).

Built between 1883 and 1887, the Güell Pavilions were among the first buildings to be completed in their entirety by Antoni Gaudí as commissioned by his patron, Eusebi Güell. The work involved designing the gardens of the latter's summer palace - today's Palau Reial - and constructing the entrance gates along the entire length of the grounds, as well as the two pavilions leading to the estate and a belvedere. Gaudí employed an extensive range of geometries and materials to fulfil the commission and applied his trencadí (broken tile) technique for the first time.

The site's owner, Barcelona University, granted the Municipal Institute of Urban Landscape and Quality of Life (IMPUiQV) use of the Güell Estate's stables and it has been comprehensively restoring Gaudí's work, garden walls and garden itself since 2015. The first phase of the restoration has now been completed and this has led to the reopening of the site to the public.

This first stage of restoration has involved the main entrance and wall on Avinguda Pedralbes, where a new entrance has been created to preserve the Dragon Gate, as well as the installation of a new ticket office with accessible services. Maintenance and protection work has also been carried out on elements in poor condition. Work will begin on refurbishing the gatekeeper's lodge in October and the restoration of the stables pavilion will begin in 2023. The site will remain open if possible when these works begin.

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The Barcelona Modernisme Fair 2022 is about to commence! You can already reserve your place to attend its opening presentation and talk.

Wednesday 25 May 2022:

7 pm - Presentation

7.15 pm - Talk entitled "Anglada Camarasa, great international painter" by Dr Francesc Fontbona, member of the Institute of Catalan Studies (IEC) and Royal Catalan Academy of Fine Arts of Sant Jordi. Prior reservations are required at: https://bit.ly/3kJeAf4

The session will also be streamed live in Catalan and English and can be viewed on the Barcelona Modernisme Route's YouTube channel.
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The computer specialist Valentí Pons has posted online the third update of his General Inventory of Catalan Art Nouveau (known as Modernisme locally), a catalogue that this lover of art and Modernisme has been compiling over a period of several years until becoming a point of reference. It currently includes some 15,000 buildings, primarily in Catalonia, but also in the rest of Spain, as well as works produced by these artists abroad. The inventory contains both works that have been preserved and works that have disappeared, such as buildings, pantheons or shops. Click on the following link if you want to consult this useful and comprehensive tool: https://www.arquitecturamodernista.cat

The City Council has bought the Casa Tosquella. This jewel of Barcelona Modernisme was built in 1889 by commission of the trader Antoni Tosquella as a summer residence. In 1906 it was restored by the master builder Eduard M. Balcells i Buigas, who gave it its unique Art Nouveau style with Arabic touches. The house was declared a Historical Monument in 1974 and is listed as a Cultural Asset of National Interest by the Generalitat de Catalunya.

Once restored, the house will be opened as a facility for the Putxet neighbourhood of Barcelona.

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The Réseau Art Nouveau Network, as part of its 2021 activities, is organising a series of three online conferences addressed to a scientific and professional audience, although the particularity of the theme will certainly arouse the interest and curiosity of the large community of Art Nouveau enthusiasts.

This first cycle will honour the women who, as artists, intellectuals, writers and commissioners, played an active and propulsive role in the creative process of Art Nouveau. Meeting them will allow us to go far beyond the idealized image of women that 20th century iconography has given us. Margaret and Frances MacDonald in Glasgow, Caroline Voet and Marie Sèthe in Brussels, Frida Hansen in Norway have made a decisive contribution to the evolution and enrichment of this style, and with this series of lectures the RANN would like to open up new

perspectives for scientific research on the subject. Providing young researchers with new tools, helping them to identify new research perspectives, feeding the scientific debate and facilitating the exchange of good practices remain the fundamental prerogatives of our Network.

For this purpose, the main criterion on which the Scientific Committee will base the selection of the 3 speakers will be innovation.

All our members are invited to respond to this call for papers by sending to the Secretariat an abstract of no more than 500 words, in which the topic of the proposed conference as well as the main lines of the new scientific perspective that their proposal will offer to the participants are well specified. In order to ensure that all our members can actively participate in the initiative, it will also be possible to invite national experts, of their choice, to send a proposal.

Practical information :

Theme: Women of Art Nouveau

Deadline for submission of abstracts: 27 August 2021

Maximum number of characters: 500 words to send at the attention of Erika Giuliani at erika.giuliani@artnouveau-net.eu and info@artnouveau-net.eu

The conference will last 60 - 75 minutes

The conferences will take place online and a flat rate of 300 euros is provided as reimbursement for each speaker.