The exhibition is dedicated to Joan Pericot Garcia (Girona, 1907–1987), an artist with roots in Torroella who stood out as a decorator, designer, painter, poet, writer, and cultural activist. It features a selection of architectural projects and paintings inspired by the landscapes of the Empordà, especially Torroella de Montgrí and Calella de Palafrugell, two of his most significant life settings.
The exhibition brings together a set of ceramic panels of popular devotion from the 17th to the 19th centuries, coming from different collections. These representations not only presided over places of worship, but also decorated the walls of traditional country houses (masies), squares and streets, acquiring a new dimension by becoming small works of popular art.
This is the most important exhibition of devotional ceramic panels that has been organized to date, both in terms of the number and the quality of the pieces that have been gathered.
The Mascort Foundation presents a collection of more than one hundred plates of seabirds, marine mammals and the world’s most beautiful birds as selected by the ornithologists Josep del Hoyo and Jordi Sargatal. The exhibition is part of the Mascort Foundation’s commitment to collaborating with the Philippe Cousteau Foundation “Union of the Oceans”- Mascort Space, soon to open its scientific headquarters in L’Estartit.