Temporary exhibitions

In modern times, especially in the 18th century, music in Barcelona had an extraordinary vitality. Music accompanied, solemnized, and provided an expressive dimension to most civil and religious events and ceremonies, and in the same way it was the backbone of the city’s leisure and entertainment. The present exhibition explains the musical activity that took place in churches, convents, on the street, at the Teatre de la Santa Creu, and in the domestic interiors of 18th century Barcelona, as well as detailing the reasons why they played one music or another, who sponsored it and the instruments that were played, without forgetting the female musicians and the female musical practice coming from the convents of nuns.

The exhibition can be visited in two simultaneous and complementary locations: the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona and the exhibition space of the CRAI Biblioteca de Lletres i CRAI Biblioteca de Fons Antic.

People tend to group together according to tastes, interests and also needs, which can be caused by an infinite number of variables. Some of them are generated by trades. When people help each other is a retrospective look at the importance of the guilds in Barcelona from various point of view, such as devotional, professional, mutual aid… It also evokes the trail they have left in different parts of the city, where we can still see and feel their presence, nowadays very much migrated. This exhibition also aims to use this look at the city’s past as a starting point to understand the present. The twenty-first century society continues to generate inequality and vulnerability, and that is why people continue to organise themselves on the basis of horizontal solidarity and mutual aid.

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The exhibition about the artist, made up of 55 works and the audiovisual “Je rêve d’un grand atelier” (I dream of a great workshop), offers a reflection on the importance of asceticism and mysticism in the creative process of Joan Miró through a rich dialogue between his works (oils, gouache, watercolors and lithographs) and some Romanesque works that are part of the collection of the Museu Diocesà.

The artist goes towards his way to transcendence through his readings of sacred texts (he created sculptures with an open Bible) and ascetic and mystical literature, moreover the interest during the historical avant-gardes for the knowledge of another reality through esotericism. In addition to his readings, Miró was decisively influenced by the Romanesque and Gothic iconography of Catalonia.

Some of the works on display are also part of the series of etchings on the work Canticle of the Sun by Saint Francis of Assisi, created by Miró in 1975 under the title “Càntic del Sol”.

The Holy Spirit, who calls all men to Christ by the seeds of the Lord. (Vat II AG 15).

The Pastoral Delegation of Faith and Culture of the Archdiocese of Barcelona and O_LUMEN propose an art tour that connects beauty, integral human development and education as acts of hope. A dialogue between Christian spirituality and contemporary culture based on everyday experiences: grief and joy, uncertainty and changes, the pandemic and community, losses and encounters, dignity and beauty, rebirth and hope. It is a temporary exhibition of seven works by the artist Vicente Molina, which can be visited in three spaces: at the Museu Diocesà, at Càritas in Plaça Nova and at the Faculty of Communication of Blanquerna

Vicente Molina (Madrid, 1956), artist and priest, positions himself in plastic and ideological asceticism. That is why he limits the use of means, and why he uses ephemeral supports such as rehabilitated waste cartons. These are fragile materials that are symbolic of human frailty, deterioration and mutations, expressed through light brushstrokes. He works in a schematic, effectual and restrained-gesture language that, emptying the human figure and the objects, leaves only what is essential.