Framed by its leafy avenue, Feníxia by Silvia Gubern stands like a totem over Barcelona, a solid stone portal …
Category: sculpture
Controversy in every angle
Alongside Tàpies, Picasso and Miró, Josep Maria Subirachs (1927–2014) stands as one of Spain’s most important twentieth-century artists. The seventy … More
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
Stargazing down at the port
They could be a pair of stevedores on deck, each marooned on their tiny pontoon. But they seem content to … More
Walk through a poem in Horta
Poetry, theatre, prose, sculptural works and even experimental film: his output was prodigious in all these media yet Joan Brossa … More
Dancing Prawn
Many’s the town that cheerfully flaunts some huge and dreadful object on its loftiest hilltop. Made of concrete or fibreglass, … More
Where the sky has fallen
Sol i ombra (Sun and Shade, 1988) is the name covering two works by the north-American artist Beverly Pepper (b. … More
A monument to Catalan independence
If you’re following a route down the Rambles in search of free art in Barcelona, pause at Plaça Catalunya for … More
