Zaragoza, Mar 21 (EFE).- The Pablo Gargallo Museum in Zaragoza will soon open a new space called ‘Entre luces’ that will allow access, touch and see a dozen reproductions of works by the Aragonese sculptor in which it will be “forbidden not to touch” .
Of these ten sculptures, only one is part of the permanent collection of the museum space, while the rest have been chosen from among those that are not on display.
“Entre luces” is a cultural, educational and social project resulting from the collaboration between the Zaragoza City Council and the San Valero Group, which values accessibility to culture through the figure of the sculptor from Maella and his work.
This tactile room, in addition to the reproductions of exhibited works, also has three stations. In the first, most of the materials with which Gargallo worked in his sculptures can be seen by touch. In the second, the importance that drawings had in his work and that can be known through a tactile book. Finally, in the third, through a group of cubes, you can see the pieces with which sheet metal worked and that were similar to the patterns of a dressmaker.
Works like puzzles
The head of the museum section of the Zaragoza City Council, Rubén Castells, explained that the works of Pablo Gargallo were “like puzzles” that he made using cardboard that he cut out.
Castells has valued the work that the students of the welding, boilermaking and metallic construction module of the San Valero Center have had to do and has even investigated to find out how the sculptor carried out his work.
The objective of this accessible room is the enjoyment of art and culture through the senses for all people regardless of their condition or abilities. For this, it has multiple accessibility resources, carried out with the advice of representative social entities of functional and cognitive diversity, such as ONCE, ATADES, the DFA Foundation or the Colegio de la Purísima for deaf children.
