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10.18.2024 — Opening of the exhibition "The Worlds of Alice. Dreaming Wonderland"

Today, October 18, 2024, the exhibition "The Worlds of Alice: Dreaming Wonderland" opens in Barcelona at CaixaForum Barcelona. With an original script by Kate Bailey, from the Victoria & Albert Museum, with whom I previously had the opportunity to collaborate on the "Opera: Passion, Power and Politics" project, I have taken on the challenge of creating a theatrical universe where the audience can feel like Lewis Carroll's Alice.

11.20.2023 — Naples, November 15, 2015

The proof that the Neapolitan nativity scene is a living work of art can be experienced by visiting Naples. On the occasion of the new presentation of the "Neapolitan Nativity Scene at the National Sculpture Museum in Valladolid" I decided to get in touch with my friend Marco Rossano, a Neapolitan filmmaker. Who better than him to capture the vibrancy of a city full of life, of which Neapolitan nativity scenes are a reflection? With camera in hand, he toured the city and recorded a documentary that is now in the same room where the nativity scene in Valladolid is displayed.

11.19.2023 — Where does the inspiration for the 2023 Nativity Scene of Plaza Sant Jaume come from?

"Just like in the traditional Neapolitan nativity scene, the nativity scene of Plaza Sant Jaume should be a mirror where the citizens see themselves reflected with the characters and the universe being represented. Each scene should convey a sense of inclusion and make the visitor feel a part of it, surrounded by it, the profound experience of being a part of it. In this way, the Barcelona of everyone celebrates itself."

04.28.2023 — Salvador Seguí, the sugar boy. Visual communication of the exhibition

In our studio, we not only took care of the design of the exhibition about Salvador Seguí, but also the street image. The photograph of the protagonist and the landscape of the three chimneys of the power station "Barcelona Traction, Light and Power Company, Limited", popularly known as "la Canadenca", were the synthesis of the narrative discourse of the exhibition and were used in the dissemination materials. Our main objective, under the artistic direction of Ignasi Cristià, was to highlight the figure of Salvador Seguí, one of the key characters in the workers' struggle, which is symbolized through the three chimneys of the power station.

11.26.2021 — Secrets of a Set Designer

We, the Set Designers, build spaces and as I am also a Playwright, I often use objects as if they were the characters that appear in them. On this occasion, in the exhibition on Antoni Gaudí that you can visit at the Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, I placed the dressing table of the Palau Güell - an exceptional object designed by Gaudí himself - in a strategic position. The three busts that lived in the modernist building, which you can also find in the exhibition, are reflected inside the mirror.

09.23.2020 — The Shadow, the Wounded, the Ball and the Girl

During the design and installation process of the renovation of the modern art halls of the National Museum of Art of Catalonia we were shooting a documentary which, divided into four acts and no words, explains the transformation of the spaces and the process of change of the new presentation of the collection from the particular viewpoint of the director Iago Blasi.The production and distribution in International festivals was entirely assumed by our studio, without any external economic help. It was presented at the "On Art Film Festival 2018" in Warsaw (Poland); at the "Master of Art Film Festival 2018" in Sofia (Bulgaria) and at the "Gulf of Naples Independent Film Festival 2018" in Naples (Italy).The National Museum of Art of Catalonia, due to preventive conservation issues and a change in criteria throughout these six years, has been transforming the presentation of the collection. Even so, our documentary preserves the testimony of the original proposal made by its curator, Juan José Lahuerta.After being shown at the three festivals, the documentary sleeps in our studio waiting to be presented in public.

01.16.2020 — Francesc Moragas Exhibition

This exhibition about Francesc Moragas, founder of “la Caixa”, can be seen in the entrance hall of the company’s central services in Santa Cruz de Tenerife until 31 January 2020. Cristià-Blasi has been in charge of the content and design of the exhibition, called The Man Behind The Soul which remembers and celebrates the 150th anniversary of the birth of Moragas. The exhibition presents the history of the man behind La Caixa de Pensions per a la Vellesa i d’Estalvis (the bank for old-age pensions and savings) who in 1904 drove the first big project for social development in the country. In order to present this pioneer and humanist, who was willing to offer a better future to the working classes and those most disadvantaged, Cristià-Blassi proposed a design in which the visitor is guided by a range of luminous coloured information boards showing who Moragas was and, specially, the values that inspired him throughout his life and work and which have endured over time.

12.13.2019 — Exhibition: “The Spirit of Montmartre in the time of Toulouse-Lautrec”

“The spirit of Montmartre in the time of Toulouse-Lautrec” will be exhibited in the CaixaForum’s venues of Seville, Palma and Zaragoza during 2020. This is a new version of the exhibition previously shown in the CaixaForum of Barcelona and Madrid. On this occasion, and after the success of both previous exhibitions, Cristià-Blasi has redesigned its own proposal to adapt the setting to the new venues. 

04.25.2019 — Inauguration of the exhibition "Opera, Passion, Power and Politics" at the CaixaForum Madrid

Opera combines all the disciplines of art, creating a universal language capable of defining cities emotionally, culturally, politically, socially and economically. The banking foundation "la Caixa" has once again called on the Cristià studio for artistic direction, design of the exhibition spaces and graphic design. A journey through eight inaugurations in the most important European theatres, in order to understand the historical context of each opera house and its relationship with the city. More information on this subject will be available on our website very soon.

09.04.2018 — The Nativity Scene of the Museo Nacional de Escultura de Valladolid, the third monument of Valladolid that tourists like the most

The new room of the "Neapolitan Crèche of the National Museum of Sculpture of Valladolid", remodeling that we designed in our studio, is the third monument best valued by tourists who have traveled to Valladolid this year. In order to elaborate the classification, the search engine of the traveler's website has been used, but a mechanism that compensates for the low number of votes received by some of the monuments and places included in the list has also been used.

07.19.2018 — "Walt Disney. The Art of Storytelling" now open at CaixaForum Madrid

The exhibition “Walt Disney. The Art of Storytelling” is now open at CaixaForum Madrid. In it, we travel through 80 years Walt Disney Studios history, paying special attention to orally transmitted legends that have inspired widely known stories such as The Three Little Pigs, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, or Frozen. Madrid is the following stage in the exhibition tour after having been shown in Seville and Barcelona, where it has received nearly 400.000 visitors. The exhibit explores at CaixaForum Madrid new spatial configurations that make it distinctive from previous locations. The different halls acquire a remarkable depth, benefiting from the reflections on the Fairy Tale Castle’s mirrors. Thus, it presents itself to the visitor as a labyrinth, the narrative labyrinth of our childhood’s entangled memories.

07.03.2018 — Gaudí and the Sagrada Família in Santiago de Compostela

The travelling exhibition “Gaudí and the Sagrada Família. Interior experience” is open to visitors until 30 September at the Cultural Space of the Monasterio de San Martín Pinario in Santiago de Compostela. In its journey through Zaragoza and Astorga, it has already received 23.000 visitors who have been able to dive into Gaudí’s universe of symbolism and imagination. It splits into three parts that tell the story of Gaudí’s inspiration in nature, his thinking and his way of making art, science and spirituality converge, and lastly, the building and the way it makes its visitors feel, showing their reaction.  

06.27.2018 — The Human Tower Museum of Catalonia enters its final phase

Recently, the Town Hall Council of Valls (Tarragona) has passed the project for the Casteller Museum of Catalonia, announcing the public bidding for the works to produce our museography. It’s an exhibition in three acts that uses the circle as a distinctive symbolic shape of castells. This project uses late generation technology, like audiovisual and sound installations, and a big mechanic sculpture with 360º projections. All these resources have been deployed to make visitors experiment, first-hand, the spectacular experience of taking part in a castell.

04.26.2018 — The Model Prison Speaks Exhibition. Opening 2017

“The Model Prison Speaks” is a temporary exhibition located inside the Model Prison of Barcelona. It took place just before the building turned into a heritage landmark, during its last days as a penitentiary. This unique initiative was commissioned by the Department of Justice of the Catalan Government, with the Honourable Mr. Carles Mundó as its Head. Aside from the exhibition, we designed the opening ceremony, we wrote the script, and we produced the video installations that played while the members of the Catalan Governement spoke. We want to share with you the most spectacular movie clip that we developed, which gains new meaning under the current political situation.  

04.26.2018 — Antonio López at the Palau de la Música Catalana

The Orfeó Català Foundation – Palau de la Música Catalana offers now for its sixth season exhibitions on fine arts showing the works of artists like Bill Viola, Louise Bourgeois, Perejaume, Antoni Tàpies or Joan Miró. This year, the Foundation has invited Antonio López, and the exhibition features twelve of his works at the Lluís Millet Room. Among them we can find the sculptures Man and Woman, and the painting The Dinner. Our job was to create a neutral space inside the modernist room which allowed a suitable contemplation of the works. On the street, before the building designed by catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, you can find the sculpture Carmen asleep, inspired by the artist’s granddaughter. The exhibition will be open to the public until 24th June, and it’s a unique opportunity to see López’s work in Barcelona. Don’t miss it!

02.20.2018 — "Gaudí and the Sagrada Família. Interior Experience" exhibition now open to the public in Astorga.

The travelling exhibition “Gaudí and la Sagrada Família. Interior Experience” is now open to visitors in Astorga. After beginning its tour at the Alma Mater Museum in Saragossa, where it received five thousand visitors, it will be located until May 20th at the Palacio Episcopal de Astorga. The building, also designed by Antoni Gaudí, is one of the few works the celebrated architect built outside Catalonia.

01.01.2018 — Presentation of our new website

After a few months of digital disconnection, we are happy to present our new website. We have dedicated this time to reinventing ourselves, to rethinking our trajectory and to revisiting our dusty archives for all the projects we have developed over the past 25 years, in order to present them properly and in great detail. We would like to thank Marnich for designing this site. As always, they responded perfectly to our needs in terms of simplicity, usability, and elegance. In this section, we will keep you informed of our recent activities and our ongoing projects currently under development. Thank you all!