Fundación Mapfre Casa Garriga Nogués (full name Fundación Mapfre Casa Garriga Nogués Exhibition Hall) is an art gallery in the

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district of Barcelona, Spain. It was established in 2015 and shows early pictorial modern painting and photography (1850–1950) and other photography. It is run by

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in , a

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architecture building located between

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and

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The gallery

Fundación Mapfre opened the gallery in autumn 2015. It shows early pictorial modern painting and photography (1850–1950) as well as other photography. The exhibition space covers an area of over 2700 m2. Exhibitions are shown on the ground floor and in small rooms upstairs. Fundación Mapfre has conserved the original state of the rooms. Fundación Mapfre is the charitable cultural arm of Spanish insurance company

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. The gallery opened with the exhibition ''The Triumph of Color. From Van Gogh to Matisse, Collections of the Musée d'Orsay.'' Subsequent exhibitions have included work by Bruce Davidson (2016),

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(2016),

Duane Michals Duane Michals ( "Michaels"; born February 18, 1932) is an American photographer. Michals's work makes innovative use of photo-sequences, often incorporating text to examine emotion and philosophy. Education and career Michals's interest in ar ...

(2017),

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(2017/2018),

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(2018) and Shomei Tohmatsu (2018).

The building – Casa Garriga Nogués

The

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. Its facade has a protruding balcony on the main floor supported by four female figures sculpted by , representing the four stages of life. The family lived on the first floor until the

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broke out in 1936. After the Civil War, the building was used by a religious school, Sagrados Corazones de Jesús y de Maria (Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary). From 1986 it was the headquarters of the publishing house Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana (Catalan Encyclopaedia Foundation), which carried out some refurbishment work. In 2008 it was in use by the Francisco Godia Foundation, which adapted it into a modern exhibition and cultural space for its museum. The exhibition space includes architectural styles ranging from

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The gallery

The building – Casa Garriga Nogués

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