Exhibition title: BACCHUS, THE MASKS OF THE GOD
Exhibition time: from March 28th to June 9th 2019
Place: Museu de Badalona
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 role in the origin of the theater, the elements that symbolize him and his evident character of domestic divinity.
The exhibition also underlines the relationship between Bacus and the Roman city of Baetulo, which, in addition to having a theater, had the main source of wealth in the cultivation of the vineyard and the production and commercialization of wine. Includes pieces from the Museum of Badalona, some of exceptional quality, and about fifty objects from other Catalan museums, which show the rooting of this divinity in the society of the Roman period and which allow to discover all the masks of this polyhedral and complex God.
Exhibition Credits
PRODUCTION: Museu de Badalona
DIRECTION: Margarida Abras
EXHIBITION DESIGN: Francesca García Almagro
SCRIPT AND DOCUMENTATION: Esther Gurri Costa
RESEARCH OF CLASSIC TEXTS: Irene Barea Ustrell
TEXTS: Margarida Abras Pou, Esther Gurri Costa i Núria Sadurní Puigbò
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Albert Navarro
AUDIOVISUALS: Lluís Andú
COMUNICATION: Esther Espejo and Núria Sadurní
CUSTOMER SERVICE: Antònia Díaz
ASSEMBLY: Francisco Ruiz Leal, Jamal Bissane, Francesc Arnal Dimas, David Mir Ramírez, Alejo García Riñones, Yeghiazar Gaboyan Matasoyan, Rubén Molina Romero and Maria Mesas Santiago
COLABORATION: Clara Forn Perramon, Dani Vázquez Alvarez and Irina Cervera Muntet.
RESTAURATION: ÀBAC, conservació i restauració SL, Sílvia Llobet Font, Noemí Molinas Daví, Jaime Salguero. ECORE, Mònica Cantera. GAMARRA & GARCIA, Agustí Gamarra.
ORIGIN OF THE PIECES: Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya – Barcelona, Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya – Empúries, Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya – Girona, Museu Nacional Arqueològic de Tarragona, Museu de Badalona, Institut Municipal Reus Cultura, Museu de Mataró, Museu Frederic Marés. Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Museu Arqueòlogic de Banyoles, Museu de Granollers, Museu de Gavà, Museu d’Història de Cambrils i Museu de Guissona.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: ARRAGO, SL Arqueologia i Patrimoni i ATICS SL
