“Innovating tradition” to recover craft techniques

Innovating tradition is the title of the exhibition with which the Council of the Alhambra and Generalife is putting the final touches to the Redalh cross-border project, carried out in collaboration with the Department of Culture of the
Tangier-Tetouan region, whose main objective is to recover, preserve and disseminate the importance of the shared craft legacy of the Maghreb and al-Andalus. The exhibition, which will be staged from the 30th January to the 2nd March 2014 in the Casas de la Mimbre in the Alhambra, will have a selection of pieces created during the project, after the study and research conducted by restorers from the Alhambra and craftsmen from Granada and the Tangier-Tetouan region.
Plaster, wood and ceramics will be the stars of the exhibition. The ancient Muslim craftsmen used their knowledge of the properties of these raw materials and of traditional techniques to transform them into excellent decorations, considered today as genuine works of art.
The Redalh Project was financed jointly by the European Union and by the Council of the Alhambra and Generalife as part of the second round of Projects in the Cross-Border Cooperation Programme.