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Bacchus is the god of wine, theater and fertility. Equivalent to the Greek Dionysus, it also assumes ancient traditions and agglutinates other deities, such as the Liber Pater. Able to entrust rage, passion and frenzy, represents the most irrational aspects of human beings as opposed to the sense of order and of the measure embodied by Apollo. The exhibition reveals the origins of the god - the last to join the Olympus - his exploits, the composition of his parade, his…

Cinema arrived in Badalona in 1898 with street projections and by 1904 the city had already its first stable movie theater. Thus began the intense relationship between the seventh art and the people of Badalona. This close link that runs through the exhibition The Great Illusion. The cinema in Badalona 1898-1975, that invites us to discover the history, the advances, the anecdotes, and the countless episodes of shared memory that are hidden in the darkness of a cinema room. The…

Between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, nature was the great muse and source of inspiration for architects and artists. With this exhibition we want to show how the flora, in particular, became one of the repertoires par excellence of modernist architecture, which came to establish a true dialogue with the world of plants through the decorative arts. Nature, the source of inspiration, is the first of the four areas in which the exhibition is structured. Here we analyzed…

The poet Charles Baudelaire said that the portrait was a modest genre, but it required a great deal of intelligence from the creator, because it was not enough to reproduce what he saw, but also to show what was hidden, behind the face of the model. A portrait, then, is the fruit of a silent dialogue between artist and model that goes far beyond physical similarity. It is the result of precise work that conveys the moment and captures the…