Ask most people to name Catalonia’s greatest cultural figures, and Antoni Gaudí and Joan Miró are likely to be among the first names mentioned. Far fewer will say Joaquim Gomis. Yet without his camera, the world’s understanding of Gaudí’s architecture may have looked completely different.
At a time when the radical architect's work was still being by dismissed by parts of Barcelona's own artistic establishment as eccentric rather than visionary, Gomis understood its significance.
A photographer, modernist and close friend of Miró, he documented Gaudí’s extraordinary forms, textures and details. In doing so, he did more than preserve the architect’s buildings - he helped shape how later generations would see, interpret and appreciate Gaudí’s vision.
That overlooked connection between architect, artist and photographer is at the heart of Gaudí–Miró–Gomis: Deconstructed, a reimagined version of an earlier exhibition by the Fundació Joan Miró exploring the links between Gaudí’s architecture, Miró’s art and Joaquim Gomis’ photography.
Fittingly housed across the newly restored third floor at Gaudi's Casa Batlló_,_ the new edition expands the dialogue between these three creative figures with immersive digital installations, AI and 3D technology developed with the Fundació Joan Miró and creative studio Tomorrow Bureau.
