Barcelona, Neutral Zone (1914-1918) is an exhibition that seeks to highlight the visual registers present in Barcelona during the First World War and to show how the city underwent a transformation in all areas, paving the way for avant-garde expression.
According to its curators, the point of departure lies in something that Josep M. de Sagarra said: During the years of the Great War, Barcelona bade farewell to the 19th century.
Barcelona, Neutral Zone at a time of war coincided with a period of big business, great opportunities, civic and political movements, secret, opulent lives, great prosperity and enormous tensions. In short, there was both a social and a creative explosion. To commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Barcelona, Neutral Zone (1914-1918) retraces the path that runs from the modernity of fin-de-siècle Paris to the avant-garde movements of the early 20th century.
With almost 500 works, around 70 different artists, 20 films, paintings, sculptures, drawings, objects and a variety of documents, the exhibition reflects the tensions of that period in nine interconnecting spaces.
