“FORJA VIVA”
BARCELONA 22,23,24,25 APRIL 2010
INTERNATIONAL GATHERING FOR BLACKSMITHS
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Forge demonstrations using different techniques and collective work.
Lectures and discussions held.
Current works will be exhibited together with the 2nd most important collection of forge works in Europe from the“Cau Ferrat Museum”.
Traditional catalan and spanish cultural elements will be present throughout the event live flamenco, “fire dragons” and St Jordi's day celebrations among others.
And more...
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To attend the event you will need to register your name and general details(where you are coming from, when, any especial needs etc) by sending it by mail or by phone
To participate in the exhibition in Barcelona's Maritim Museum, you have to send:
-Photograph (s) of the piece you want to showcase and its measurments before the 22ndof March 2010.
Accomodation near the event with special price for the events participants :
-Barcelona Sound Hostel www.barcelonasoundhostel.com
1 night in shared room with breakfast included and internet connection: 20€
-Barcelona Ramblas Hotel www.barcelonaramblas.com
1 night in a double room with breakfast included and internet connection:50€
Contact: Guillermina Morales & Pepa Ibáñez. Mail:
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or www.tallerdeforja.net.
Organizers:Cau Ferrat Museum, National Museum of Science and Technique (MNCT), Museum Maritim de Barcelona (MMB), Barcelona University (UB), Tallerdeforja.net, Association of catalan blacksmiths (AFoC).
And the support from Barcelona Town Hall among others.
We will look forwards to reciving your visit and support.
We will be updating the information as we get closer to the date.
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EXHIBITION:
On 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25th April, Barcelona’s Raval district will be hosting Forja Viva gathering. Barcelona’s Maritime Museum will be staging an international exhibition of forgework as part of the event. The exhibition has been organised by Tallerdeforja.net and the Blacksmiths Association of Catalonia (AFoC), with the support and involvement of the Museu Marítim in Barcelona, the Museu Cau Ferrat in Sitges and the Museu de la Vida Rural in L’Espluga de Francolí.
The exhibition The Living Forge, seeks to reappraise the work of the blacksmith and artistic forgework and will be divided into two diferent areas. The first will include a small selection of forgework from the collections of the Museu de la Vida Rural in L’Espluga del Francolí and the Museu Cau Ferrat in Sitges, and the second will showcase work by contemporary artist blacksmiths from around the world.
Tallerdeforja.net and the AFoC, defend and pursue the same objective and discourse advocated more than a century ago by the artists and intellectuals from the modernism milieux. Santiago Rusiñol, the man behind Cau Ferrat, gave impetus to the regeneration of what had been considered the “minor arts” until then, and gave them equal status with fully-fledged artistic manifestations such as architecture, sculpture, music and painting, ....
This spirit is the linking thread of this initiative which will seek to highlight the connection between past and present, and in which one of the key aspects is to guarantee quality. All the professionals and artists currently working in the field of blacksmithing will be able to take part by filling in the registration form. A commission comprising representatives of the organisation and collaborating bodies will decide which work will be accepted for the exhibition.
From this space we offer our encouragement and support to all the blacksmiths of the 21st century.
EXHIBITION REGISTRATION
Details of the blacksmith:
Participant’s name
Postal address
E-mail address
Telephone
Technical description of the piece/es:
Title
Dimensions in centimetres, in this order: Maximum height / Maximum width / Maximum depth
Weight
Price
Special requirements for the display (wall fixings, display case, plinth, floor-mounted, can be displayed outside?)
Photograph of the work (If you send the photograph/s by e-mail, the maximum file size per image and e-mail is 4MB.
Entry conditions:
Registration forms must be received no later than 31st March 2010.
The organisers will be responsible for the gallery space, displays, security, layout and distribution of the objects at the museum, as well as the private view and publicising the exhibition.
Any costs resulting from packaging, transport (there and back), customs duty and insurance (if necessary) will be met by the participants.
The selected pieces can be delivered from 19th April until 21st April.From 9 to 18hours.
The exhibition will be taken down over a three-day period from 3rd to 4th May, which will be the deadline for the removal of the work from the museum premises.
NEW 2010-0316
II FORJA VIVA
Barcelona 22nd, 23rd, 24th i 25th of April 2010.
During 4 days, blacksmiths and many other related professionals from around the world, will take part in this artistic, scientific and technical event, in the historic centre of the city of Barcelona.
The main objectives of the gathering are:
• To promote the state of the forge in the 21st Century.
• To define the perspective of catalan forge within the international network.
• To boost the acknowledgment and the care for this trade and our blacksmith heritage.
• To consolidate a space that promotes the dialogue between the different fields.
We welcome everybody to the new age of the Forge!
Organitzation:
? Taller de Forja (www.tallerdeforja.net) ? Associació de Forjadors de Catalunya, AFoC (www.afoc.com)
Colaboration:
? Museu Marítim de Barcelona
? Museu del Cau Ferrat de Sitges
? Museu Nacional de la Ciència i de la Tècnica de Terrassa ? Museu de la vida rural de l'Espluga de Francolí ? Universitat de Barcelona ? Palau Güell ? Ajuntament de Barcelona ? Generalitat de Catalunya ? Diputació de Barcelona With the support of:
? Termcat
? Acció Social Montalegre.
? Institut Tècnic Català de la Soldadura, ITCS ? Associació d'amics de la metal•lúrgia, ASAMMET ? Tot Raval ? Centre Cívic Drassanes, CCD ? Hephaistos ? Hidrogarne ? Angele (Germany) ? Universitat de Belles Arts de Sant Petersburg (Russia) ? Acunç.
? Museu de la vida rural de l'Espluga de Francolí.
? Maccaferri Roberto & figli.snc
? Museu del Guix i de Geologia de Vilobí del Penedès.
Programme 22nd of April
12:00 h: Participants registrations until 16:00h
Location: C/ St. Ramon, 25 (Barcelona)
16:00h: Guided visit in the Palau Güell, focused on the iron works and forged elements in the Palace. (Activity reserved only for the participants).
Location: C/Nou de la Rambla, 3-5.
18:00 h: Inaguration of the Gathering by José Manuel González Labrador.
Deputy President from the Department of Culture, Diputació of Barcelona.
Location: Sala d'Actes Museu Marítim of Barcelona (Avda. Drassanes, s/n).
19:00 h: Inaguration of Forja Viva: International Exhibition.
Location: Museu Marítim of Barcelona (Avda. Drassanes, s/n).
From the 23rd of April until the 2nd of May, works from the Cau Ferrat, Museu de la Vida Rural de l'Espluga de Francoli and current international works will be on display.
Opening hours: monday to sunday from 10:00h to 20:00h.
20:30h Closing of the inaguration party with the video art instalation "Metalgestalter" by Lucio Pari (Italy).
Location: Pyeire de Mandiargues Square.
Programme 23rd April (St. Jordi?s Day)
09:30 h: Presentation of the conferences by Eusebi Casanelles i Rahola, Director of the National Museum of Science and Technology of Terrasa.
Location: Meeting Hall in the Barcelona?s Maritim Museum (Avda.
Drassanes, s/n)
Conferences:
"Iron in History, a strategic metal", by Marta Sancho (UB) "Catalonia?s metallurgy, iron and steel heritage", by Eusèbi Casanelles
(MNCT)
"The Forge, an optimizing technique", by Pere Molera (UB) "Forging Art" by Jadran & Martino Stenico (Italy)
15:00 h: Presentation of the stands with books, forge tools and others.
Iron roses for sale, made and donated by the blacksmiths to obtain funds for the families in need in the Raval neighbourhood.
Localization: Joan Coromines Square, Barcelona:
Live production of an artistic creation within the them "Union" The forge as a connection between cultures, places and the different epochs"
be y the artists:
16:00 h: Vladimir Sokhonevich, Saint Petersburg Academy of Art and Industry (Russia) 18:00 h: Claudio Bottero (Italy) 22:00 h: St Jordi's Day Celebrations.
Location: Pyeire de Mandiargues Square (next to C/ St. Ramon, Barcelona)
Programme 24th of April
09:00 h: Welding by forge, known as Damascus steel process, per Miquel Segura (Catalonia).
10:00 h: Gabriele Curtolo (Italy) Artistic creation under the theme "Union" The forge as a connection between cultures, places and the different epochs"
Location: Pyeire de Mandiargues Squeare (next to C/ St. Ramon de Barcelona) 15:00 h: Artistic manifestation from the participants. Production of forge works around the theme "Union" The forge as a connection between cultures, places and the different epochs".
22:00 h: Flamenco.
Location: Pyeire de Mandiargues Square (next to C/ St. Ramon de Barcelona)
Programme 25th of April
09:00 h a 12 h: Finalization of the works accomplished.
Location: Pyeire de Mandiargues Square (next to C/ St. Ramon de Barcelona) 13:00 h: Auction of the completed works produced in the Pyeire de Mandiargues Square.
14:00 h End of the gathering.
All repeats