{"id":54414,"date":"2018-11-06T19:18:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T18:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/touring-exhibitions\/la-belleza-dela-maquina-2\/"},"modified":"2021-01-18T12:53:16","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T11:53:16","slug":"the-beauty-of-the-machine-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.fundacionnaturgy.org\/en\/education-and-dissemination\/travelling-exhibitions\/touring-exhibitions\/the-beauty-of-the-machine-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The beauty of the machine"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Naturgy Foundation presents the exhibition “La belleza\u00a0de la m\u00e1quina” on the most significant artistic work of Ramon de Ba\u00f1os (1890-1980).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

<\/div>[vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Thanks to extensive research in the Historical Archive, today the Naturgy Foundation releases an unpublished selection of photographs that rediscover Ramon de Ba\u00f1os, known until now as a pioneer of Catalan cinema, as a photographer. The collection of photographs that have been brought to light, and which have their own visual code, offer a new perspective that allows us to enjoy the beauty of industrial photography. These photographs now make up an extraordinary graphic document of a world that no longer exists.<\/p>\n

The company Catalana de Gas y Electricidad S. A<\/strong>., just like other companies of the time, carried out photography projects to document and publish its heritage and capacity of production. Despite the first collaborations between Ramon de Ba\u00f1os and Catalana de Gas in 1929 for the Universal Exhibition in Barcelona, he was not incorporated as a \u201cphotographer attached to the Technical Services\u201d until later. The main project that Ramon de Ba\u00f1os then carried out for the company was called\u00a01947 Album<\/strong>, a collection of 58 photographs of industrial machinery and architecture. It is a collection of images that had a propaganda objective and wanted to show the important asset the company once had, its modernity and its extraordinary business activity.<\/p>\n

Ram\u00f3n de Ba\u00f1os develops his own photographic style that enables him to embellish and glorify machinery and the\u00a0industrial landscape<\/strong>. They are well-framed and well-structured pieces with a careful arrangement of the objects represented. The images are not representations of a truthful reality but rather, while avoiding a human presence, reveal the architectural magnificence of factories and the beauty of machinery. Hence, despite fulfilling a propaganda purpose, these images convey a distinctly spiritual emotion. The photographs have been altered, outlining certain elements with the finest of brushes, airbrushing techniques, paints, pencils and fine cutting tools. This meticulous work enabled him to define surfaces and planes of light, clean up irregularities and obscure imperfections to achieve the incredibly personal lyrical tone of his compositions.<\/p>\n

The exhibition contains a selection of images taken from the 1947 Album and other industrial photographs, as well as a video from 1927 by Ramon de Ba\u00f1os. Thanks to the preservation of these photographs by the\u00a0Historical Archive of the Naturgy Foundation<\/strong>, we can now enjoy this valuable material that serves as a graphical testimony to explain the history of science and technology that enables us to rediscover\u00a0the industrial heritage of Spain<\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator border_width=”3″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]

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