{"id":3374,"date":"2024-08-18T21:01:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-18T21:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2024-08-18T21:04:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T21:04:17","slug":"3374","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3374","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona Pavilion&#8217;s Chaotic Now Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_4116-2.heic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_4116-2.heic\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3383\" style=\"width:465px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_4118.heic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG_4118.heic\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3376\" style=\"width:535px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I was star-struck the first time I saw The German Pavilion, the model house designed in 1929 by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich at the foot of Montjuic in Barcelona.&nbsp;&nbsp;This low-slung, elegant landmark of clean lines and reflections remains in my mind for its conjuring spirit \u2013carefully crafted artwork that produces a series of perceptions both stable and evanescent.&nbsp;&nbsp;It hovers, a seeming experiment in timelessness, though its stripped down modernism certainly broke norms nearly100 years ago.&nbsp;&nbsp;Its magic struck me last week, mesmerized again after thirty years by the gorgeous \u201cdawn\u201d sculpture by Georg Kolbe, reflections that bind inside and out, elegance, wordlessness.&nbsp;&nbsp;But words written in the brochure gave it a whole new meaning.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quoting the brochure: The 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition \u201ccoincided with one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the continent: Europe between the wars. A period marked politically by the breakdown of liberal democracies, the spread of fascism\u2026\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;As if the tongue of a bell was swinging and banging against my insides, setting off reverberations \u2013 all relevant, this is now.&nbsp;&nbsp;Breakdown of democracies, turmoil, fascism.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It didn\u2019t stay on that note \u2013 the clapper swung in another direction, to possibilities found in art: \u201cEvery period of crisis also brings renewal \u2013 and the art scene of the time perfectly encapsulated this spirit, which gave rise to the emergence of the avant-garde.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Modernism pushed back against obfuscation, fussiness, lies with an idealism that \u201cunderstood beauty as the manifestation of truth.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;Ninety-five years later, we have exhausted much of that same idealism.&nbsp;&nbsp;But why not, even in our jaundiced era, in this do-or-die moment, see chaos as an opportunity to reassert all that matters, in language both new and essential?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was star-struck the first time I saw The German Pavilion, the model house designed in 1929 by Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich at the foot of Montjuic in Barcelona.&nbsp;&nbsp;This low-slung, elegant landmark of clean lines and reflections &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/?p=3374\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4D5qU-3374","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3374"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3384,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3374\/revisions\/3384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.jillpearlman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}