Museu dels Sants, Olot, 23 March - 26 May 2013

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This exhibition took part in the cooperation project: " Imaginería religiosa: Olot - República Dominicana - Haití ", to achieve three aims:

Analyze the creative diversity about religious imagery.
Appreciate this tradition, source of local development.
Recognize the contribution of historical and artistic craftsmen, as well as its importance in the transmission of their knowledge to other generations.

Photographies of Anna Pons

Joaquim Claret Vallès is one of the most prominent sculptors about figurative Catalan sculptures area, at the beginning of the 20th century. He was born in 1879 in Camprodon (Girona/Catalonia) and trained in Olot and Barcelona schools.

Guided visit to the exhibition about Joaquim Claret, by exhibition commissioner (movie in catalan): CRISTINA RODRIGUEZ SAMANIEGO:

Collection of 33 texts and 33 etchings of several authors from Olot, published in the collection conceived by Miquel Plana  in his work “El Burí i la Ploma” (The chisel and the pen).

This year, during Christmas Scenes Trade in Olot, the Sants d'Olot Museum into the Christmas scenes of author cycle, presents the exhibition dedicated to Manuel Traité Figueras (1908 - 1996).

This exhibition join many Christmas scenes created by Manuel Traité, Christmas scenes on tables, original figures, and a collection of figures modelled for religious imagery workshops.

In 1994, Manuel Traité it was homenaged by the Council of Olot, and also it was in 1982 by the “Christmas Scenes Association”, to appreciate his career throughout his life, relative to the Christmas Scenes world, having got many awards. The long list of works that Traité made, reaches 350 pieces, lots of them popular Christmas Scenes, made with moss and cork or artistic Christmas Scenes, made with plaster and clay.

Parallelly with the Christmas scenes, Traité modelled many figures and groups; some of these works are pieces only, made them “a palillo”, while others are thought to serve as models in the religious imagery’s workshop. His pieces as the series “Traité” - models 700, 703, 704, 707 and 708- belongs today to the catalogue of the workshop  “El Arte Cristiano”, pieces commercialized himself, or the models 67 and 76 of the workshop “Las Artes Religiosas”. All of them are in the their catalogues and continue its manufacturing.

This year the Christmas Scenes Trade in Olot has 14 spaces of exhibition:

• Church of Sant Esteve
• Chapel of Sant Ferriol
• Technical Architect Association, Delegation Garrotxa/Ripollès
• Ancient yard of the hospital of Sant Jaume
• Can Trincheria
• Sants d'Olot Museum
• Hospice building
• Shop window of Angel square
• Catholic centre
• School of Art of Olot
• Hermitage of Sant Francesc
• Chapel of Defenseless
• Parish church of Sant Roc
• Chapel of the Health

Del 5th December 2008 to 11th January 2009

SEE DRAFT AND PROGRAM (only catalan)

The coincidence in the application of the golden sheet in handmade diverse activities is the conductive thread and structure of this exhibition, in order to establish a certain reflection and comparison among several environments from the point of view of the procedure and to foster and to understand better the work of the goldsmiths at the religious imaginary shops.

Ignasi Buxó, related with the world of the saints in his youth, ingenious and creative man, has passed to the local history, as the best sculptor in type of his time.

With his brother Jeroni, founded the Artistic Industry Buxó brothers; a family company dedicated to the terracotta figures. The pieces of the brothers Buxó were modelled with clay of the well-known area of San Cosme, near Olot. Later they prepared this raw material in the warehouse of the yard in their house.

Thanks to the great domain of the drawing demonstrated in his youth, Ignasi created a serial of very expressive characters, with all detail, think very highly of people and that he released in many other places. They are very dynamic figures, full of life; smiling and nice figures that radiate optimism and with a very careful technique.

The exhibition shows several works and productions of Ignasi Buxó that includes a part from his famous heads and exotic figures; relieves with popular scenes, tombstones for cemeteries, ashtrays, ornamental jugs, glasses, drawings, Christmas cribs and many modernist figures among others. As usual, all the exhibitions in the Museu dels Sants d'Olot, it's possible to watch many tools and processes of the works exhibited yet.

As years ago Olot (Girona/Catalonia) presents a Christmas Scenes Trade. It'll take place at 12 different spaces and buildings in the city. Taking part with de Christmas Scenes Trades, the Saint's Museum of Olot presents in the temporality exhibition room, the theme as follows: POPULAR CHRISTMAS SCENES

Author's scenes: Part of the work of Lluís Carbonell (1910 - 1992). A wide exhibition of several works from this recognized painter, sculptor, teacher and designer of Olot city.

An exhibition that showed the instrumental, tools and utensils used in the carpentry's workshop in the religious enterprise. Also, a large range of elements manufactured in this section; all type of furniture for churches and complements for the religious images, such as attributes, chapels, crossings, frames, stands, pedestals and structures among other things.

Josep Berga Boix with the brothers Joaquim and Marian Vayreda, was a founder membership of the entity "Escola d'Olot" ( School of Olot ). Above all, his pictorial works were dedicated to the landscape; a thematic that it'll go forward along his life. Many of his works were paintings about mountain ranges and landscapes, always about his homeland: the Garrotxa region.

Appreciated pedagogue, writer, articulist and author of several fable stories, tales and legends of the region. The exhibitions were a good showcase to show the sculpture aspect of Josep Berga Boix. He was born on the little village on La Pinya , near Olot, in 1837. He was dead in this city in the year 1914.