Collaboration with the Salvador Vilaseca Museum, within the framework of the Fortuny Year
The Reus Museum will once again participate in the European Heritage Days, an initiative of the Council of Europe and the European Commission, which has been celebrated continuously in Catalonia since 1991 and is considered the most important participatory activity in Europe related to cultural heritage. This year, 2025, specifically the weekend of October 10 and 11, the Reus Museum will take the theme of this edition, which focuses on architectural heritage, and explore ephemeral architecture. For this reason, we would like to collaborate with the School of Art and Design of Reus of the Tarragona Provincial Council.
We want the ephemeral architecture intervention to relate to the temporary exhibition in the museum galleries: Fortuny, the Observation of Nature. The Power of the Gaze. This exhibition allows us to view the artist from a different perspective, where his physical and natural environment plays a major role. We aim to combine architecture with the nature that Fortuny integrates into his works; the goal is to display in situ some of the plant examples that Fortuny depicted in his paintings, using elements of ephemeral architecture to present them.
List of plants appearing in the works:
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Hollyhock
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Pumpkin plant
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Alocasia
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Begonia
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Geranium
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Chrysanthemum
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Corn fig
On Friday, October 10, and Saturday, October 11, an ephemeral architecture installation created by the students of the School of Art and Design of the Tarragona Provincial Council will be displayed in the lobby of the Salvador Vilaseca Archaeology Museum.
Public opening hours:
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Friday, October 10: 10:00–14:00 and 17:00–20:00
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Saturday, October 11: 10:00–14:00 and 17:00–20:00
Installation days: October 6 and 9, 2025
Location: Lobby of the Salvador Vilaseca Archaeology Museum, with the possibility of interventions in the stairwell area.
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The work will be carried out on site. The proposal will simply involve arranging and organizing the floral installation using very simple ephemeral elements (chosen by the students) and assisting with its spatial distribution.
The museum will offer the students a guided tour of Fortuny’s work.
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