Video games and 3D printing will star the season at the CaixaForum

2023-09-07 12:02:39

Video games and 3D printing will be the focus of the new CaixaForum Girona exhibition season. The cultural center of the La Caixa Foundation will open the season in October with Homo Ludens Video games to understand the presentwhich claims the importance of games in contemporary culture, while in March it will be the turn of Print3D. Reprint realitywhich will explore the potential and impact of this technology.

Through the 34 exhibitions it presents throughout the CaixaForum centers, the CosmoCaixa and the traveling exhibitions, the La Caixa Foundation is looking for this season “uniting the languages ​​of science and art”, an alliance from which “new narratives and new challenges are born”, according to its deputy general manager, Elisa Durán. For Durán, the foundation presents a season “updated and connected to current reality, also in concept”, which takes into account the situation of the cultural sector after the pandemic: “the public has returned, but they want to do things in a otherwise, he wants to participate more”, with more involvement on the part of the visitor and more presence of technology.

In this line that advocates for “a change in the expository language, because art and science add up more together“, CaixaForum Girona will start the course with a reflection on the video game as one of the most relevant cultural manifestations of today. Homo Ludens Video games to understand the present reflects on the contributions of the video game industry in the field of science, design and artand also the way in which they affect our identity and the way we relate.

The exhibition, which can be visited from October 3 to February 18, includes video game samples and contemporary artworks by artists such as Bill Viola and Mónica Rikićand offers an immersive and participatory tour in video games as an industry, creation and culture.

Mónica Rikić’s piece that can be seen in “Homo Ludens”. FIERCE JULIET

From March 20 and until August 25, he will take over Print3D. Reprint reality, which analyzes the possibilities and the challenges of 3D printing. The exhibition delves into the way in which this collaborative technology has begun to be applied in very diverse fields, from medicine to art or construction, to enable productions with personalized designs and unthinkable scales and sizes up to some years ago

They will be exhibited there more than 200 pieces created with 3D printersto see how this technology works, what materials it uses and why it is considered that it can change our consumption habits and our productive system.

Miró’s tapestry

This year, CaixaForum Girona will also exhibit from February 16 to August 18 one of the seven monumental tapestries created by Joan Miróa large-format work from 1980 recently restored to public view in Barcelona.

In addition, the Caixa Foundation will continue to promote the free online platform CaixaForum+, which currently has more than 100,000 subscribers.