La Obra Social ,la Caixa, presenta la programación de CaixaForum Tarragona para esta temporada

Tarragona. Costa Dorada. The Director of Business Area of "la Caixa" in Tarragona, Victor Hernandez, director CaixaForum and Tarragona, Carles Marquès, presented this morning Tarragona CaixaForum programming for 2009-2010. The new season of social and cultural center of the Obra Social "la Caixa" in the city is governed by a clear principle: the consolidation of its civic character as a meeting between culture, science and citizenship, one year after its implementation as CaixaForum. This is reflected in a broad range of global activities aimed at all audiences. CaixaForum Tarragona wants to be a platform consistent with current social concerns and enhance the value of culture as social integration. Through art exhibitions and science program, as well as concerts, cycles of literature and poetry, topical discussions, the conference scientific and social, educational workshops and family activities to seniors groups , the Obra Social "la Caixa" promotes awareness and personal growth of citizens of all ages. Looking to the 2009-2010 season, the Obra Social "la Caixa" CaixaForum Tarragona preparing a comprehensive and innovative, the service of communication, socialization and, ultimately, the welfare of all citizens: a single model cultural, civic and social institution that has moved in recent years at other schools that have broken the seal CaixaForum. In 1993 opened the first CaixaForum in Palma, in the building designed by Lluis Domenech i Montaner, followed in 2002, the opening of CaixaForum Barcelona, housed in the old modernist works Casaramona (designed by Josep Puig i Cadafalch) and last year 2008, CaixaForum Madrid, in the central Paseo del Prado. A year ago, also the city of Tarragona has its CaixaForum, and will Girona, Zaragoza and Sevilla. La Obra Social "la Caixa" opened the season in September with the sample Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939): seduction, modernity and utopia, the first major exhibition devoted to the creator of Art Nouveau. Includes over 140 pieces attest to the prolific work of this artist, photographs, drawings, lithographs, posters, paintings, jewelry, ceramics, books, newspapers, magazines, boxes, bottles, etc.. The exhibition, a collaboration between the Foundation "la Caixa" and the Mucha Foundation announces all facets of one of the most unique and well-known artists of his time, pioneered the application of art to advertising and one of the fathers of modern graphic design. Since February 2010, the exhibition hall CaixaForum Tarragona host the first major exhibition devoted to Charles Chaplin. Chaplin in Pictures offers a new vision to date on her figure and her character, Chariot, from the family archives. By combining nearly 200 studio photographs, posters and magazines, documents and film clips, provides an overview of the artist and his career. The 2009-2010 season will end with the sample Salvador Dalí and magazines, an approximation to the collaboration, varied and extensive, the brilliant artist Empordanese with the world of print media. The exhibition shows that the artist Empordanese use the media to strengthen their public image as an icon of surrealism as eccentric and provocative character. The exhibition includes over 240 pieces including newspapers, magazines, direct interventions by Dali on paper, some key covers that he designed and in which they appeared, articles, advertisements and other documents as illustrated manuscripts, correspondence, collages about newspapers and cartoons on this universal character. Year after year, the Humanities Program Obra Social "la Caixa" is a reference in the intellectual landscape of our country. From a repertoire of cultural we want to deepen the foundations of our culture and give the keys to understanding the great social transformations of our time. Also all kinds of scientific disciplines will take place in the lecture series Vespers of Science. The music season CaixaForum Tarragona offer a diverse set of proposals that include prestigious names in early music and outstanding personalities and backgrounds of music from around the world with a diversity of styles and formats.

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