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From March 15th to July 16th, you can visit the exhibition Altres Brosses. Joan Brossa i la poesia d’acció, el parateatre at the Joan Brossa Foundation in Barcelona, curated by Joan Maria Minguet, in which the Museu de Badalona collaborates by ceding a unique piece from its collection. This is a trunk that the famous magician from Badalona Joan Forns i Jordana (Badalona April 9, 1916 – Barcelona January 12, 1998), Li-Chang, used for his acclaimed escapism numbers. He called it baüla and it entered the Museum’s collections as a donation from his children, Joan Maria and Montserrat Forns, in 2007.

Museu de Badalona, Inv. 9691

The exhibition is the result of research that takes the form of an exhibition installation to explain Joan Brossa’s intense dedication to what he called paratheatre, a scenic discipline which, as the curator of the exhibition states, the same Brossa cultivated and that, instead of focusing on the literary tradition of the theater, has since time immemorial sought contact with the spectator through fascination, surprise or occurrence in everything that happens on a stage (or in a circus ring, or in a street or a square) that has nothing to do with the plot or the narrative.

For further information:
https://www.fundaciojoanbrossa.cat/arxiu-arts-visuals/altres-brosses-parateatre

Every year around March, as part of the Badalona Medieval Festival, the Sant Jordi Medieval Festival Cultural Association and the Museum of Badalona organize a cycle of lectures to enrich this festival and spread different aspects of the Middle Ages. In recent years, lectures have been held about the farmhouses of Badalona, the hermitages of the Betlem’s valley, the origins of the city’s coat of arms, the phenomenon of piracy in the 15th and 16th centuries or the rural world in the medieval period. This year’s cycle seeks another perspective from the point of view of three professionals that work and study history.

The lectures will take place on Thursdays, March 16th, 23th and 30th, at 7 p.m., in the Museum’s auditorium. Entry is free until capacity is reached.

Next Tuesday, February 14th, at 7:30 pm, a colloquium on the figures of Frederic Xifré i Masferrer and Celestí Boada i Salvador, mayors of Badalona and Santa Coloma de Gramenet, respectively, who were reprisaled and shot by Franco, will take place.

The event will be in charge of historians Mateu Chalmeta and Sam Núñez and is organized by Associació Alcalde Xifré with the collaboration of the Museum of Badalona.

Free entry until capacity is reached.

During the Christmas holidays, the Museum will be closed on Friday 22th (afternoon), Monday 25th, Tuesday 26th, Friday 29th December (afternoon), Monday 1st, Friday 5th in the afternoon and Saturday 6th January, all day.

The Christmas holidays will also affect the opening hours of the City Historical Archive, which will be closed the week of December 25th to 31st.

Last November 24th, the communicologist and designer from Badalona Joan Costa Solà-Segalés (1926-2022) died. Considered one of the world’s leading researchers in communication, signaling, schematics and scientigraphy, alongside personalities such as Gillo Dorfles, Angelo Schwartz, Vilém Flusser, Umberto Eco, Luc Janizevski, Elisabeth Rohmer, Victor Schwach or Abraham Moles, Costa Solà-Segalés also had a brief career as an artist in his youth.

Formed at the Llotja, Costa Solà-Segalés was mainly influenced by Impressionist painting. He exhibited in Barcelona (Saló de Tardor), Badalona and Sant Adrià de Besòs, and was awarded in Sant Adrià and Badalona. He worked mostly in pencil portraiture and painting but, ultimately, it would be in the field of design and communication where he would succeed. He was a professor at the Visual School of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​and is the author of more than twenty books and hundreds of articles on communication, sociology of the image and design.

Two works from that first period in which he became interested in painting and drawing are preserved in the collections of our Museum. The first is the portrait of a cousin of the author, Rosa Motino Solà-Segalés, who was 17 years old at the time. This work, an oil painting, was presented at the local exhibition of Fine Arts in Badalona in 1947 and was awarded the first prize in the category of local authors. In 2020 it was included in the Portraits exhibition that could be seen at the Museum in the spring and summer of that year, right after the months of confinement. The second work, titled Descans, was acquired for 2,000 pesetas by the Badalona City Council, after it was part of the Local Exhibition of Fine Arts in 1951 and was awarded one of the special prizes. Years later, the work would enter the Museum’s Art Fund.

                                                       Portrait of Rosa Motino Solà-Segalés (1947) and Descans (1951)