Barcelona's Casa Batlló has staged an awe-inspiring audio-visual show designed by Italian multimedia artist Quayola. 'Mapping 2025' is part of the 'Heritage of Tomorrow' artistic program which aims to bring Antonio Gaudí’s legacy into the future. Euronews Culture was there to experience the show.
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00:00My work is somehow rooted in technology, I like to explore how technology is changing
00:25the way we look at the world.
00:27And I somehow explore several traditions, several historical, both pictorials, cultural
00:34traditions in which I tend to go back.
00:37So you could say that my work also is some kind of tension and relationships between
00:41past, present and future.
00:46Well, Davide is an artist that has inspired his entire career in nature, as Gaudi did.
00:57As you can see in the building behind me, it's an inspiration of nature that has grown
01:04building, and Davide emerged this specific topic and we thought he was the perfect artist
01:12to do this 2025 mapping.
01:21So one thing that really struck me about Gaudi's work is that his architectures, they don't
01:26really look like they're designed and constructed like any other building, it really feels that
01:31something is sort of grown out of a natural process almost.
01:35So to me the tree is this kind of symbol, this sort of analogy to something that, it's
01:44a sort of symbol of organic growth in a way, of complexity, it becomes a kind of symbol
01:49for the inspiration that I think drove Gaudi into building the house.
01:55So I wanted to make a piece that of course celebrates the geometry of the facade, but
02:00at the same time could take the sort of audience beyond that, and I wanted to kind of really
02:06create a link between Gaudi and his inspirations in a way, and how nature ultimately can be
02:15this kind of universal, infinite inspirations across generations, across technologies, across
02:21languages.
02:26So it's not really something that it's there just to celebrate the facade, the facade doesn't
02:32even need further celebration, it's already great, I think this is more to, as a vehicle
02:38to do something new, to perhaps inspire on some of the ideas that generated this work
02:44in the first place.