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Miró Even More Up Close
The plastic arts in the world of the blind
The experience of any visitor to a museum or art collection moves within an obligatory sensory parameter: the objects must be seen; ‘do not touch’ is repeated. This preservationist fact makes some sense in the world of painting, which sometimes requires a game of distances and approaches in order to be appreciated visually. But it does not apply to sculpture, where it is necessary to perceive not only shapes and volumes, but also all the sensations that arise from tactile contact with the various materials that have contributed to its creation.
This world of textures, inaccessible to all visitors, is the principal means of approaching the plastic arts for blind people, for whom ‘do not touch’ means ‘do not look’, ‘do not know’.
Society’s gradual awareness of the participation of people with some form of disability in the most varied aspects of everyday life is a verifiable and growing fact of our time. We therefore follow the criteria of integration developed in other countries, in which the planning and organisation of school activities with children with disabilities is carried out in ‘normal’ classes. The work is not done on the basis of this, but the general class activity is organised in such a manner that everyone can learn. It is almost always a matter of creative imagination in incorporating resources rather than big speculations or assemblies.
It is precisely this set of approaches and considerations that forms the basis for the realisation of this exhibition.
R. Gratacós
F. Hernández
