{"id":270659,"date":"2026-02-02T19:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/270659\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T19:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T19:34:16","slug":"united-visual-artists-animates-gaudis-casa-batllo-facade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/270659\/","title":{"rendered":"united visual artists animates gaud\u00ed’s casa batll\u00f3 facade"},"content":{"rendered":"

matt clark brings united visual artists\u2019 language to casa batll\u00f3<\/p>\n

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Casa Batll\u00f3<\/a> unveils Hidden Order, a monumental projection mapping by Matt Clark, founder of United Visual Artists<\/a>, presented as a free public event on Gaud\u00ed\u2019s facade<\/a>. For the first time, the annual mapping commission also moves indoors, inaugurating a new second-floor space<\/a> with Beyond the Facade, a site-specific exhibition<\/a> that extends the project past the street.<\/p>\n

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Conceived as a large-scale audiovisual performance, Hidden Order transforms Casa Batll\u00f3\u2019s facade through cycles of light, movement, and sound. Clark approaches Gaud\u00ed\u2019s architecture as an active system shaped by geometry, natural laws, and constant transformation. The title echoes L\u2019ordre invisible, the official motto of Gaud\u00ed Year 2026, pointing to the idea that apparent chaos often conceals deeper structures. \u2018Gaud\u00ed once said that the straight line belongs to man, and the curve to God\u2026 I\u2019ve always been drawn to the hidden systems beneath the surface\u2014those structures that quietly shape the world around us.\u2019 Clark notes.<\/p>\n

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The experience is further intensified by a live performance by choreographer and dance artist Fukiko Takase, activating the facade in real time and tightening the feedback loop between body, building, and public space.<\/p>\n

Clark collaborated with the dance artist, recording her movements through motion-capture technology. Her body becomes a generative element within the projection, multiplied and transformed into dynamic visual structures that appear to grow directly from the facade. Takase\u2019s choreography was developed through direct physical engagement with Casa Batll\u00f3, responding to its curves, textures, and spatial rhythm, treating the building as a partner.<\/p>\n

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Hidden Order mapping by United Visual Artists at Casa Batll\u00f3 | all images by Claudia Mauri\u00f1o<\/a><\/p>\n

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hidden order unfolds as an interior journey<\/p>\n

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An original score by composer Daniel J. Thibaut binds image, movement, and architecture into a single performative experience. Developed in close dialogue with Clark and Takase\u2019s choreography, the composition draws on geometry and natural patterns, shifting from restrained pulses to more expansive sequences. Sound is not used illustratively,\u00a0 but structurally, allowing the facade to \u2018find its own voice\u2019 as light, motion, and audio operate together over time.<\/p>\n

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Opening in parallel with the mapping, Beyond the Facade marks the launch of Casa Batll\u00f3\u2019s contemporary art exhibition space. Conceived as an interior continuation of Hidden Order, the exhibition leads visitors on a gradual journey from daylight into darkness, tracing rhythms of day and night, order and disorder. Through light studies, motion-based projections, and kinetic sculpture, the British artist<\/a> slows the tempo, offering what he describes as \u2018a more reflective counterpoint to the facade mapping\u2026 an opportunity to look more closely at the ideas and processes behind the work.\u2019<\/p>\n

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A key reference of the concept is Ramon Llull, the 13th-century Majorcan philosopher whose diagrammatic systems sought to reveal the hidden order of the world through logic and geometry. The connection situates Clark\u2019s practice within a longer lineage of thinkers who, like Llull and Gaud\u00ed, understood nature as an intelligible system.<\/p>\n

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a monumental projection mapping by Matt Clark<\/p>\n

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a civic spectacle activating gaud\u00ed\u2019s legacy<\/p>\n

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Now in its fifth edition, Casa Batll\u00f3\u2019s annual mapping series has become a major public event, drawing 110,000 spectators in 2025 alone. Previous commissions by Refik Anadol, Sofia Crespo, and Quayola have reinterpreted the facade through digital and generative practices. While United Visual Artists has produced permanent public artworks worldwide, Hidden Order marks the studio\u2019s first exploration of projection mapping. \u2018We see the mapping as a gift to the city\u2014an open moment of encounter with a living World Heritage site,\u2019 shares Gary Gautier, General Director of Casa Batll\u00f3.<\/p>\n

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The project forms part of Casa Batll\u00f3 Contemporary, the ongoing program of the institution dedicated to commissioning new work in dialogue with Gaud\u00ed\u2019s legacy. The year 2026 marks the centenary of Gaud\u00ed\u2019s death, officially designated Gaud\u00ed Year 2026 by the Generalitat of Catalonia and the Government of Spain, and coincides with Barcelona\u2019s role as World Capital of Architecture. Hidden Order and Beyond the Facade treat Gaud\u00ed\u2019s work as a living framework, one that continues to generate new forms of artistic thinking today.\u2018Gaud\u00ed\u2019s work is already alive. Casa Batll\u00f3 Contemporary exists to create the conditions for that legacy to continue expanding through contemporary artists, for the world of today.\u2019 explains Mar\u00eda Bernat, Director of Casa Batll\u00f3 Contemporary.<\/p>\n

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Hidden Order transforms Casa Batll\u00f3\u2019s facade through cycles of light, movement, and sound<\/p>\n

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Clark approaches Gaud\u00ed\u2019s architecture as an active system shaped by geometry, natural laws, and transformation<\/p>\n

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Beyond the Facade marks the launch of Casa Batll\u00f3\u2019s contemporary art exhibition space<\/p>\n

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