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After the war in Ukraine, the initiative excludes any agreement with the Russian museum to focus on a space “for multidisciplinary physical and digital art” in the old Godó i Trias factory.
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The center, with an international vocation, will be called The Factory Museum and aspires to a five-year sale of publicly owned protected assets
Of Barcelona to L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. This was the journey made by Varia Investment Cultural, the promoters of the already Discarded franchise of the Hermitage in the Nova Bocana of the port of Barcelona, and now with a new initiative on the town hall table Hospitalet de Llobregat. In particular, this Thursday the city board approved the publicity and the opening of a 20-day period for the allegations of the project presented last July by the investment group. What the promoter wants is the transfer for 50 years of the occupation of the old Godó y Trias textile factory, owned by the municipality and with patrimonial protection, to develop the Factory Museum.
Investment of 50 million
Under the Warholian name, the group poses “a multidisciplinary museum of physical and digital art that will host immersive historical and contemporary exhibitions, In addition to a center research and spaces for artists “, they claim. The project is planned in stages, a first with the rehabilitation and use of the heritage space, and another more ambitious in the medium or long term that it contemplates the construction of a new building on the adjacent land and enabled for cultural use, in addition to the participation of third parties. The rest of the details have yet to be finalized pending acceptance of the project. Although the sources of the promoters confirm that it would mean “a private investment in a public building over 50 million euros.
heritage building
From the beginning it was well received by the L’Hospitalet municipality, not in vain, the initiative would help to bring out the city as a pole of arts and would strengthen the cultural district, Beyond economic district (the old factory is next to the Plaza de Europa); something that does not go unnoticed by investors who defend the project as a “cultural educational proposal” that seeks to act as a “new backbone within the Hospitalet that unites the historic area with the more modern part” in an area of “large wealthy public” together with the Fira de Barcelona and the Ciutat de la Justícia.
Nor do they despise in the municipality that the proposal supposes the recovery of a historic building this explains the industrial memory of the city and the opening to the citizens of a space that is no longer in use. And that its restoration would also mean having a ‘pritzker’ in L’Hospitalet, since the proposal to recover the old factory will be realized, if it happens, by RCR architects, the studio that won the so-called nobel of architecture in 2017. But their task is to follow the related legal process and give the opportunity to present other projects if there are any. There is also the no less important question of the definitive finalization of the agreement that the Municipality of L’Hospitalet signed with some Chinese investors to create a traditional medicine center of the Asian country in the Godó i Trias plant, which has not prospered.
metropolitan logic
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The project’s journey from Barcelona to L’Hospitalet owes in large part to the efforts of the PSC municipal group in the Catalan capital to consolidate the Hermitage initiative: “We have always defended the need to reach an agreement to make room for a cultural investment. private space, “he says. Saverio Marcé, Councilor for Tourism and Creative Industries. With the assessment of the process – the resources between the parties involved, including port, are already presented with a patrimonial claim to the municipality of 141 million in progress – and other cities such as Malaga and Madrid that ask to host the project, the socialists put on the table of promoters the option of L’Hospitalet: “An idea that works with the metropolitan logic, which strengthens the space of the Fira and the cultural district of the Hospitalet in a clearly Barcelona location”, at the governor’s discretion.
The space was appreciated for its design and location and talks were opened with the board of Núria Marín. At the beginning, the commitment to the Hermitage was still standing, but the war in Ukraine forced the Russian art gallery to be put aside and totally rethinking the project finally presented, which has nothing to do with the St. Petersburg museum. And this seems to please both the second and the first Catalan cities: “It is good news that the investment remains in the Barcelona metro. From the PSC, in fact, we have worked to ensure that the initiative does not go to other cities in the rest of the state. L’Hospitalet is part of the metropolitan reality of Barcelona and this will allow us to connect the cultural district of L’Hospitalet with the cultural power of Barcelona “, assures Jaume Colliboni first deputy mayor of Barcelona.
