- Artist
- Charlotte Perriand
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- Place
- Exhibition rooms
The show is fully in line with the guiding theme of this year's programme: a profound reinterpretation of architecture as a living space, language and way of situating ourselves in the world. In this sense, Perriand is an essential figure. She was one of the few women who managed to enter the great temple of modern architectural and urban creation: Atelier Le Corbusier, and she did so not as a silent assistant, but as a creator with her own voice, capable of transforming the logic of modern design. From those early years, she championed a key idea that art, architecture and design are inseparable, a synthesis capable of transforming the way we live and a principle resonating naturally with the Fundació Joan Miró, where architecture and creation are conceived as a unified experience.
Organised in collaboration with the Kunstmuseen in Krefeld, Museum der Moderne in Salzburg and Fundación BBVA, the exhibition will position Barcelona as a space of historical and creative affinities. The dialogue between Perriand and Josep Lluís Sert plays a particularly important role here: the two met in 1928 while working in Le Corbusier's workshop, and they remained friends and intellectual allies for life. During the Spanish Civil War and the early years of the Second World War, Perriand even welcomed Sert and Moncha Longás into her small Parisian apartment. Later, their paths diverged (Sert and Longás went to the United States, while Perriand went to Japan and Indochina), but the flow of thought and exchange was never interrupted. Evidence of this can be seen in episodes such as Sert's monographic report dedicated to Perriand in the 1950s, or Perriand's attendance at the inauguration of the Fundació Joan Miró in 1976. Among the materials she kept in her archive were documents from the Pavilion of the Spanish Republic and an original sample of mercury from Calder's fountain, a gesture that symbolised their emotional and professional bond.
The exhibition will follow these intersections by taking visitors on a journey through Perriand's formative years and her pivotal stage at the Atelier Le Corbusier (1927-1937), a period in which many of her designs, including her iconic tilting chaise longue, were overshadowed by Le Corbusier's own work, although recent research and exhibition projects have rightly restored her place in history.
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