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Category: sculpture

Her phoenix gate

Framed by its leafy avenue, Feníxia by Silvia Gubern stands like a totem over Barcelona, a solid stone portal …

Arte povera, Catalan art, Catalonia, female symbols, Feníxia, Magic Fountain, Montjuïc, poetry, Sala Vinçon, Sculpture, Silvia Gubern, symbolic crossing, Zeleste

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

abstraction, Barcelona beaches, Barcelona sculpture, Catalan independence, Figuration, Francesc Macià, Josep Clarà i Ayat, Josep Maria Subirachs, Noucentisme, Passion façade, Plaça Catalunya, Sagrada Família

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

1992, anti-establishment, Arte povera, Barcelona beaches, Barceloneta, bcnart, BCNfreeart, found objects, Greek artist, Jannis Kounellis, poor art, sculpture in Catalonia

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

art you can see for free, Barcelona beaches, barcelona free art, bcnart, BCNfreeart, Fibonacci sequence, Indian mathematician, Italian mathematician, Mario Merz, Pingala

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

anarchy, anti-capitalism, Barcelona beaches, barcelona free art, BCNfreeart, Joan Salvat-Papasseit, Léon Krier, Moll de Bosch i Alsina, Moll de la Fusta, neoclassicism, noucentista, poet, poetry, port of Barcelona, Robert Krier

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

Barcelona beaches, barcelona free art, Barcelona sculpture, Frame, Francoism, Marc, Miraestels, New Figuration, Robert Llimós, Spain, Stargazers
The capital A’s sharp lines erupt from the vegetation like a futurist manifesto

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

1984, art, barcelona, barcelona free art, barcelona parks, Barcelona sculpture, BCNfreeart, Dau al Set, Franco, futurism, Horta, Joan Brossa, labirint d'Horta, magic, Spain
With its whimsically comic air, Gambrinus brings a sense of fun to the Moll de la Fusta

Dancing Prawn

Many’s the town that cheerfully flaunts some huge and dreadful object on its loftiest hilltop. Made of concrete or fibreglass, … More

1992, barcelona, Barcelona beaches, barcelona free art, Barcelona sculpture, BCNfreeart, Cobi, COOB, escamarlà, free art route, Gambrinus, Javier Mariscal, Jocs Olímpics, la gamba, langoustine, Olympic Games, Xavier Mariscal

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

barcelona, barcelona parks, Barcelona sculpture, Beverly Pepper, Cel caigut, Espiral arbrada, Fallen Sky, land art, Planted Spiral, Sol i ombra, Sun and Shade

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

Barcelona sculpture, Catalan independence, ERC, Francesc Macià, Josep Clarà i Ayat, Josep Maria Subirachs, Plaça Catalunya, Sagrada Família

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