From next Wednesday, January the 24h, the exhibition “Vicent Pascual Pastor, architect” can be seen at the EASDAlcoi. An exhibition which brings us closer to the important architectural career of this Alcoian architect, developed between 1891 and 1930, after his training in Barcelona.
Pascual is one of the most outstanding Alcoian architects of the late 19th century and early 20th; and one of the introducers of the modernist style to the city, expression of his outstanding industrial development and social power achieved by the bourgeoisie. The famous “Casa del Pavo”, one of the key pieces of the Alcoian modernism, was his work as well as the Grotto of the Industrial Circle or the current Conservatory. All focused on the exaltation of nature as a source of inspiration in the investigation of new architectural forms removed from the past.
The exhibition not only analyzes the modernist stage of Pascual, possibly the best known, but also includes his previous stages. The historicist and eclectic, as well as the different architectural typologies that Pascual developed in the city and in the district: churches and charitable buildings , representative buildings, bourgeois and country houses, civil and industrial buildings, housing for rent, for workers and for public promotion or cheap houses.
This initiative of the Department of History and Theory of Art and Design of the EASDAlcoi allows us to contemplate again this exhibition, organized by the CAEHA (Center Alcoyano of Historical and Archaeological Studies) and exhibited in the Cultural Center of Alcoi in September of 2017 within the 1st Week of the Modernism of Alcoi, organized by the City Council of Alcoi, where this outstanding architect was honored with the placement of a monolith in the Glorieta’s Park. The exhibition will remain open throughout the month of February.
