Alongside Tàpies, Picasso and Miró, Josep Maria Subirachs (1927–2014) stands as one of Spain’s most important twentieth-century artists. The seventy … More
Category: Barcelona beaches
The balance of trade in Barceloneta
Jannis Kounellis, though Greek, was at one time, like Mario Merz, an exponent of Italy’s Arte Povera (poor art). This late-sixties … More
The measure of a shell
Unsurprisingly, for this installation of cobble-embedded neon, Italian artist Mario Merz chose the Fibonacci sequence, a ratio occurring naturally in … More
Anarchy on a classical plinth
Like a lone night watchman—as he was in his youth—the statue of Joan Salvat-Papasseit (1894–1924), one of Catalonia’s preeminent poets, … More
Caged in the rain
If you cross over Barceloneta’s Passeig Marítim in the direction of the sea, you will come across another of the … More
Barcelona free art 
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