The exhibition 'Encuentros en la estación. València-Nord, un espacio de modernidad (1917-2017)' ['Encounters at the station. València-Nord, a modern space (1917-2017)'] offers a historical, artistic and social perspective of this iconic Valencian train station, designed by architect Demetrio Ribes Marco.
Organised by the Valencian Ministry of Housing, Public Work and Territorial Planning via the Demetrio Ribes Chair, with the collaboration of the Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia, ADIF and the Valencia City hall, this exhibition is organised around various aspects of the Estación del Norte, from the figure of Demetrio Ribes as the architect to day-to-day life in the station, via the plans for the station, its architecture and its ornamentation. .
Amongst the details that from it, he exhibition offers a selection of vintage and current photographs, plans, original ceramic pieces and a never-before-seen model of the station, all of which reflect the different sides of this iconic building, which turned one hundred years old in 2017.
Exhibition Information
València
Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia - 19 May to 15 June 2017
Estaciones del Norte and Joaquín Sorolla - 30 de June to 10 de September 2017
Curatorship
Inmaculada Aguilar Civera
Coordination
Rubén Pacheco Díaz
Research
Inmaculada Aguilar Civera
Luis Arciniega García
Manuel Carreres Rodríguez
Susana Climent Viguer
Desirée Juliana Colomer
Rubén Pacheco Díaz
In Collaboration with
Ateneo Mercantil de Valencia
Adif
València City Hall
Expository Design
Mary Ortega
Rubén Pacheco
Itinerancy
València: Civil Engineering School of the Universitat Politècnica of València - 20 November 2017 to 3 March 2018
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