Snow and Rainfall: Torelló is like that. Reinterpretation of Joan Castells’ graphs on meteorology

In April 1952 in Torelló, the exhibition “Torelló es así” (Torelló is like this) on graphs and statistics that the municipal secretary Joan Castells i Casas had long prepared was organized.

The catalogue of the exhibition is conserved in the Public Archive and brings together the entire collection of statistical graphics made by Joan Castells i Casas on Torelló. The catalogue is organized into different themes and brings together more than a hundred graphs that are presented to us today as a clear photograph of the social, demographic and economic reality of the Torelló of the time, also becoming a graphic, almost artistic testimony of the representation of statistical data in times of “pre-informatics”.

Fascinated by this work and with the desire to be able to disseminate this work in the current context of climate crisis, the exhibition “Neu i pluviometria: Torelló is like that. Reinterpretation of Joan Castells’ graphs on meteorology”. A collaborative project between the School of Plastic Arts and the Public Archive of Torelló that has resulted in the reinterpretation with current data of the Castells graphics, bringing them to the language of contemporary artistic practices.

With this exhibition, we celebrate the role of documentary heritage as a driving force for a new artistic creativity; a symbiosis that aims to be a transformative element to generate collective awareness and commitment.

Find the exhibition’s funnel with a creative challenge to do here! (in Catalan)

Place: Public Archive of Torelló

Collaborate: School of Visual Arts of Torelló

Opening: July 24, 2024, at 20h

Participants in the exhibition:

• Joan Castells
• Students of the School of Plastic Arts:
  • Young workshop students: Alba, Anouk, Bernat, Berta, Guillem, Jana, Mariona, Naia and Quim, accompanied by Maria Gambús.
  • Students of the adult creative workshop: Elena, Joan Carles, Maria and Xavier, accompanied by Anna Dot.