On Saturday, July 1 from 12 noon, the exhibition organized by Halfhouse and Lumbung Press opens, which, on the occasion of the 150th Anniversary of the Spanish Academy in Rome, will be presented in the Halfhouse space in Barcelona.
The exhibition functions as a celebration of the 150-year journey of the Spanish academy in Rome. The spaces of the academy are loaded with fragments of the work and life of the people who have participated in its long history. Apparently unalterable over time, the Academy is a fixed place of reception but based on movement, exchanges and continuous creation.
Because even without previous references, the meeting between former residents establishes an immediate complicit bond. That idea of a meeting place for dozens of creators in counterpoint with the imprint of the iconic city, is what we want to impregnate this exhibition.
There is a great tradition in Rome of building new architectural spaces from a collection of fragments from others.
The epigraphic museum is built from the remains of buildings, reliefs, sculptures, friezes, architrave stones, fragments of columns and capitals from older constructions, normally located in the entrance spaces of civil or ecclesiastical buildings, being appreciated as a cabinet of pictures.
The proposal forms a room based on contributions from all interested scholarship holders who have contributed with images and phrases made from their Roman experience.
Halfhouse is a non-profit space located in Barcelona.
It was born in 2009 at the initiative of the artists Sinéad Spelman and Alberto Peral. Without neglecting the exhibition part, Halfhouse works as a laboratory where coexistence is one of the fundamental aspects in the development of the proposals they host, creating a friendly environment to establish complicity, share experiences.
Lumbung Press is a collective printing project, now established in Hangar and has been in charge of making the publication that, as a palimpsest, will be distributed in the exhibition and to all the participants and the general public.
This activity is part of Living several times at the same time. The shared memory of the Academy that Santiago Eraso, cultural manager and member of the Board of Trustees of the Academy, coordinates as part of the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Academy. The project covers the last three decades of the institution's history, while tracing some key themes of its present and future, with the aim of recognizing this anniversary as an open process and commemorating the institution's constant spirit of renewal.
