Twenty years after the celebration of Gaudí Year, the National Art Museum of Catalonia faces a critical review of the architect's work with a large format exhibition that gathers more than 650 objects architectural, design and furniture, works of art, documentation, plans and photographs, departs from clichés and proposes a complete review of Gaudí's career, from his formative years to his death and mass burial.

Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) has a very special presence in the collection of the National Museum, which has a large and complete set of his works and exhibits them together with those of other artists and architects of the period, among whom we particularly highlight Josep Maria Jujol.

This project, which in the spring will travel to Paris, at the Musée d'Orsay, and which has involved an important research task on the part of the curator and the museum teams, proposes a new narrative that frees the architect from the numerous clichés and reductionist visions with which he has been burdened over time. The exhibition shows how Gaudí was not an isolated genius, out of his time and misunderstood, and places him in the international context by presenting a very important set of works by artists such as Auguste Rodin, Geoffroy Dechaume, Violet-le-Duc, Thomas Jeckyll or William Morris.

Important novelties are presented for the first time and pieces forgotten for many years, such as the spectacular hall furniture on the main floor of Casa Milà, dismantled in the 1960s, the pieces of which were scattered; the Bust of the Fountain of Hercules in the garden of the Palau de Pedralbes; the plasters that were used to model the sculptures of the Sagrada Família, the photographs of Park Güell that were part of the Paris exhibition of 1910 and which have not been exhibited again, or one of the tapestries made by Jujol for the Floral Games of 1907, among many others.

The exhibition discovers a Gaudí of enormous complexity, who captures like no other artist the needs of the society in which he lives, a time of radical changes, and who produces the most powerful images, which endure to this day.

In total, they are 74 national and international institutions and collections who collaborate by lending works for this great exhibition, which also includes works from the museum's own collection.

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