14th edition of ART I ESCOLA Exhibition of projects
From May 15th to July 19th, 2025
ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànies (Sant Francesc, 1, Vic)
Curated by Maria Dinarès
Opening Thursday, May 15th at 6 p.m.
> See exhibition brochure for details
> Interview with Marià Dinarès
ART + SCHOOL + MAGIC
A spark of emotion, that extraordinary moment of expressive exaltation, the flash of eloquence in the face of a work of art, are possibly the main motives in the pursuit of every creative act and a key aspect in influencing the various artistic forms.
The exhibition of the 14th edition of Art i Escola is a journey through the projects presented by each group and school, thirty-one schools and forty-two projects, collected by theme, form, or participation. The suggested itinerary within the exhibition is flexible responding to diverse categories and observing their relationships:
Optical Illusions, Transformations, Traditions and Legends, Fantastic Creatures and Other Worlds, Unguents and Potions, Mirrors and Reflections.
Visitors can follow the projects highlighted in the exhibition rooms by a painted frame of a saturated and bright green colour, almost day-glo, which refers to the natural but also to the supernatural; a green surface reminiscent of both, nature and artifice. A colour like that of the green-screen, used in cinematography and television, which renders objects invisible, while allowing for the insertion or superimposition of images, therefore creating the illusion of new realities.
Magic means illusionism, prestidigitation staged as a spectacle of trickery and deception. The seduction and suggestion of the optical perceptions of visual psychology.
Magic can be found in the complex and enigmatic worlds of symbolism and mythology, in the unknown and the supernatural, in the ancestral, in the afterlife, in dreams, in fog, in mirrors, and in the imaginary and fantasy.
Magic can also be found in celestial objects, in shooting stars, in the moon, in the sun, in the stars and constellations, in the extraterrestrial, or in the cosmos.
Magic is in special places, special corners, sacred places.
Magic plays with cards and dice, tarot and chance. Magic is astrology and the zodiac.
And magic thrives in rituals and traditions, popular beliefs, and folkloric characters. Magic means fantastic beings, legends and myths, dragons and mermaids, gods and goddesses, fairies and goblins, brownies, piskies, nymphs and water women; witches and sorcerers, druids and cunning-women. Also, magic means medicinal herbs, unguents and potions.
Magic is also found in the laws of physics and chemistry, in the transformation of matter. in metamorphoses,
in environmental change, in swimming, in flying;
in a rain of frogs.
Marià Dinarès
ART i ESCOLA is a programme which promotes and highlights the presence of art in schools. The initiative establishes a network of partnerships among different organisations working in the fields of art and education, in conjunction with schools. It is based on the premise that education forms part of cultural production, and that the arts, considered from the perspectives of its many contemporary forms, may provide several useful tools for revitalising educational activities.
ART i ESCOLA is promoted by ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànies, Centre de Recursos Pedagògics d’Osona, with Escola d’Art i Superior de Disseny de Vic, H. Associació per a les Arts Contemporànies, Katacrack, UVIC-UCC, Universitat de Barcelona, and a number of interested contributors.
RELATED ACTIVITIES
HI HA UNA LLUM AL JARDÍ (THERE IS A LIGHT IN THE GARDEN)
LUDIC GUIDED VISIT TO THE EXHIBITION
Saturday 24/5
From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
In collaboration with the Biblioteca Pilarín Bayés
TOT EL QUE CAP EN UN ARBRE (EVERYTHING A TREE CAN BEAR)
TABLE-TALKS IN THE SQUARE
Saturday 07/06/25 10.30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
in collaboration with Tapís.
UN TRAÇ, UN ENCANTERI (ONE PENCIL STROKE, ONE SPELL)
CHILDREN’S SUMMER WORKSHOP
From June 25th to 27th,
from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
HE VIST UN COLOR QUE ES MOU (I SAW A COLOUR MOVING)
Part of Tardes d’estiu al carrer (Summer afternoons in the street)
Wednesday 9th of May
at 6 p.m.
MANUAL PER FER DESAPARÈIXER LA VERITAT (A GUIDE TO DISAPPEARING THE TRUTH)
Summer Workshop for Young People
12 to 16 years old July 16th to 18th
from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
GUIDED TOURS
Free guided tours of the exhibition
For groups of students from early childhood education, primary, secondary and higher education, social, cultural and leisure education organisations, associations and family groups, etc. The visits are complemented by the educational activity INVISIBLE ACTIONS
Més informació de les activitats i reserva de les visites: 93 885 37 04 o
ART I ESCOLA 14 PARTICIPANTS
1_ ESCOLA ANDERSEN
ILLUSIONS AND FANTASIES: EXPERIENCING AND CREATING. MAG...
Locality: Vic
5th and 6th years Primary school
2_ ESCOLA BAGES
LEILA THE WITCH’S CAKES
Locality: Manresa
4th year Primary school
3_ ESCOLA BELLPUIG
LISTENING TO ONE ANOTHER
Locality: Sant Julià de Vilatorta
1st, 2nd years Primary school
4_ BETÀNIA PATMÓS
THIS IS NOT A STONE
Locality: Barcelona
6th year Primary school
5_ INSTITUT-ESCOLA CARLES CAPDEVILA
ANCIENT VOICES
Locality: Hostalets de Balenyà
1st year, Secondary School
6_ CFA CARME KARR
THE MAGIC OF SMALL THINGS
Locality: Sant Joan de Vilatorrada
Further Education College: FI (Instrumental Training), GES (Graduate in Secondary Education for Adults), language courses (Catalan, Spanish and English) and Self-training.
7_ ESCOLA DR JOAQUIM SALARICH
METAMORPHOSIS: ALTERED REALITIES.
Locality: Vic 1st, 2nd, 5th and 6th years
Primary school
8_ EL PETIT MIQUEL
THE MAGIC OF NATURE.
Locality: Vic 5th year, Primary School
9_ ESCOLA EMILI TEIXIDOR
THE MAGIC OF THE TIME PASSING.
Locality: Roda de Ter Kindergarten,
1st year Primary School
10_ ESCOLA ESTEL
WHAT DOES MAGIC MEAN TO YOU?
Locality: Vic
Secondary School
11_ FEDAC VIC
FROM ROOTS TO HEAVEN: NORSE AND MAYAN MAGIC
Locality: Vic
Secondary School
12_ INS GURB
MAXIMILIAN OF GURB.
Locality: Gurb
4th year, Secondary School
13_ IE JOSEP MARIA XANDRI
MAGIC BASED ON LITERATURE / TO BELIEVE OR NOT TO BELIEVE?
Locality: Sant Pere de Torelló
Whole school. Kindergarten, Primary and Secondary School
14_ ESCOLA L’AGULLOLA
HISTORY SPEAKS TO US.
Locality: Rupit
Whole school. Kindergarten, Primary School, all years
15_ ESCOLA L’ERA DE DALT
THE MAGIC UNIVERS
Locality: Tona
3th year, Primary School
16_ CENTRE EDUCATIU WALDORF LA FONT
THE MEMORY OF THE ILLUSION
Locality: Vic
4th year Secondary School
17_ ESCOLA LA GLEVA
DESIDERIUM
Locality: Les Masies de Voltregà
Whole school. Kindergarten, Primary and Secondary School
18_ ESCOLA LA MONJOIA
WHAT SECRETS DOES NATURE HIDE?
Locality: Sant Bartomeu del Grau
3rd and 4th years, Primary School
19_ INS LA PLANA
THE MAGIC OF SHADOW THEATRE
Locality: Vic
2nd year, Secondary School
19_ INS LA PLANA
A VOYAGE TO A MAGIC WORLD: PHOTOGRAPHS OF LILLIPUT
Locality: Vic
4th year Secondary School
20_ ESCOLA LES ROQUES
DO YOU DARE CROSS THE THRESHOLD?
Locality: Vilanova de Sau
5th and 6th years, Primary School
21_ IE MESTRE ANDREU
THE MAGICAL SHADOWS OF CHRISTMAS / REAL SUPERPOWERS / THE MAGIC OF COLOURS / MAGICAL PLACES OF ST. JOAN DE LES ABADESSES / INVISIBLE INKS / FANTASTIC BEINGS
Locality: Sant Joan de les Abadesses
Primary School
22_ IE MESTRE ANDREU
MAGICAL THINKING: BELIEFS AND SUPERSTITIONS/ A FASCINATION WITH MATERIALS
Locality: Sant Joan de les Abadesses
Secondary School
23_ ESCOLA QUATRE VENTS
I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE
Locality: Manlleu Kindergarten
24_ ESCOLA TOMÀS RAGUER I CEE RAMON SURIÑACH
SPELLS AND TRICKS.
Locality: Ripoll
1er Primary School, Special Secondary School
25_ ESCOLA ROCAPREVERA
WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGES
Locality: Torelló
4th year, Secondary School
26_ COL·LEGI SAGRAT COR
LET'S DO MAGIC!
Locality: Vic
Kindergarten, Primary School, all years, 387 students
27_ ESCOLA SEGIMON COMAS
THE IMAGINARY WORLD/ THE WATER-WOMEN/THE SKY IS OURS
Locality: Sant Quirze de Besora
Primary School
28_ ESCOLA SENTFORES
MAGIC
Locality: Vic
1st, 2nd, Primary school
29_ INS TARADELL
RHIZOME IN COLOUR; A COLLECTIVE GEOMETRIC PAINTING NETWORK
Locality: Taradell
1st year, Secondary School
30_ VEDRUNA ESCORIAL VIC
THE ENIGMA OF METAMORPHOSIS.
Locality: Vic
4th year, Secondary School
31_ ESCOLA VIC CENTRE
THE MAGIC OF CHANGING THE WORLD.
Locality: Vic
Kindergarten, Primary School, all years
More information www.artiescola.cat
ART I ESCOLA AL VALLÈS OCCIDENTAL
Art and Escola in the Vallès Occidental AC Granollers coordinates the project to be exhibited at the Museu de Granollers from 13 de maig al 8 de juny de 2025
More information
ACVIC Centre d’Arts Contemporànies
Sant Francesc 1, Vic Tel +34 93 885 37 04 •
From Tuesday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 5 p.m to 7 p.m
Saturday from 11a.m. to 2 p.m and from 5 p.m to 7 p.m
Monday, Sunday and Holidays closed
* Crèdits de les imatges:
- Escola Dr Joaquim Salarich
- Escola Quatre Vents, Manlleu
- Escoles Tomàs Raguer i Ramon Suriñach, Ripoll