- Artist
- Joaquim Gomis
- Dates
- —
- Place
- Foyer of the Fundació Miró
- Curated by
- Martina Millà, Head of Exhibitions at the Fundació Joan Miró
This exhibition of photographs by Joaquim Gomis brings together a selection of the extensive account that this close friend of Joan Miró and Joan Prats gave of the hat shop that the Prats family owned in Rambla de Catalunya. The Prats headwear or hat shop became an improvised cultural centre, a magic box of creation where anything was possible. The shop windows became exhibition spaces.
Its main values were a sense of hard work, exactingness and expert craftsmanship. Openness to all practices of creation and progressive thought was its guiding principle. There was room for all this and more in Joan Prats' shop. During the long post-war years, it was a secret refuge where the modern spirit that had emerged with the ADLAN group in the 1930s was safeguarded.
