The National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) , in collaboration with the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum and "Kobe Shimbun" newspaper, is staging an exhibition entitled "Barcelona. City of Artistic Miracles. The Essence of Modern Catalan Art from Modernisme to the Avant-garde", which will be seen in five museums and galleries in Japan and includes some 150 works from major Spanish museums and collections, 60 of which belong to the MNAC collection.
The exhibition sets out to explain the major changes in the city beginning in the second half of the 19th century and continuing into the next century as shown through the works of artists such as Ramon Casas, Santiago Rusiñol, Isidre Nonell, Joaquim Mir, Ricard Canals, Antoni Gaudí, Puig i Cadafalch, Josep Maria Jujol, Gaspar Homar, Juli González, Joaquim Torres García, Joaquim Sunyer, Josep Clarà, Xavier Nogués, Manolo Hugué and Pablo Gargallo, among others.
The show will also run at the Himeji City Museum of Art from 29 June to 1 September 2019 before it travels to Sapporo and Shizuoka to finish its tour in Tokyo in April 2020.
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